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
His brains seethed with plans for the improvement of agriculture, trade, and education, but none of these did the importunity of his creditors permit him to carry into effect.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John
You know they are generally tumultuous, refractory, full of discontent and murmuring, capricious in demanding favors, not long satisfied with present concessions, and not seldom abusing them by restless importunity for more.
From History of Halifax City by Akins, Thomas B.
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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