importunate
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Importunate telegrams flashed from the President's Palace to Brer Briand at Geneva begging him to become Premier for the twelfth time.
From Time Magazine Archive
But let me eat, comfortless as I am, Uninterrupted; for no call is loud As that of hunger in the ears of man; Importunate, unreas’nable, it constrains His notice, more than all his woes beside.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
Importunate above measure grew the question, barely displaced in the full flood of discovery: Was the unseen habitant familiar here? present here by some secret, easier ingress?
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
Importunate clients, who would make appointments at unseasonable hours and would keep to them, might confide in the partner, though they would not in the clerk.
From A Dark Night's Work by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Importunate begging, whereby the Brethren are feared as highwaymen.
From Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order by Costelloe, Laurence
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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