importunity

Example Sentences

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Her looks and ability soon bring success and a suitor, a white, amiable young financier whose importunity will not hear honest Mimi's tragic secret.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is the almost whimsical Morrow importunity an ideal substitute for angry notes and troops along the border?

From Time Magazine Archive

Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

I won't insult you by importunity, but I will tell you just this once, and once for all, what I feel.

From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant

He promised, as he was wont to promise; but weary of a request which was repeated every time he appeared, he at last yielded to my importunity.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary