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
The merchants, after many letters and much importunity, sent him small supplies of money, scarce sufficient to pay his debts and buy him bread.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
"Good-night," I said, "and pardon my importunity, but I have a message for Colonel Cresap."
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
