Insisting

Examples

• It was really a letter insisting on the payment of a bill for furniture. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You don't have to keep insisting on it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He would not let her sit up, and offended Dixon desperately by insisting on waiting upon her himself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Possibly the leaders would travel too fast and too far on the road to perfection if conservatism did not also play its salutary part in insisting that the procession move forward as a whole. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A day or two later Mr. De Loche called on me in Memphis to apologize for his apparent incivility in not insisting on my staying for dinner. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There is, however, grave danger that in insisting upon this end, existing economic conditions and standards will be accepted as final. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mrs Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Nor is there any need of insisting again that the ultimate ideal of annihilating prostitution has nothing to expect from the concrete proposals that were made. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But I forbear insisting on this subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• At the same time he wrote to the Corinthians, insisting that they should send Thessalus to him in chains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had been insisting that it would be well for Mr. Bulstrode to relax his attention to business. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Perhaps Casaubon, in his hatred and jealousy, had been insisting to Dorothea that Will had slid below her socially. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At last there came another very severe letter from the Duke of Beaufort, insisting on Lord Worcester immediately joining him at his seat near Oxford. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Nay, but, said Isaac, insisting, they will deem us more thankless than mere dogs! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Typed by Levi