importunity
Example Sentences
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Is the almost whimsical Morrow importunity an ideal substitute for angry notes and troops along the border?
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
However, importunity, if we faint not, will certainly prevail.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
Vocabulary lists containing importunity
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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"Of Plymouth Plantation," Vocabulary from the historical account
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"The Story of an Hour"
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