Insist

Examples

• Some make fun of it, some overpraise, and nearly all insist that I had a deep theory to expound, when I only wrote it for the pleasure and the money. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Mr. Sam Wynne coming up with great haste, to insist on the elder girls joining in the game as well as the younger ones, Caroline was again left alone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I beg, I insist that you will not invite any one to this house. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If you insist upon being determined by conditions you do hesitate about saying I shall. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If you insist, you take your unjust advantage of me, and I give way immediately. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And when you have given _your_ ball, she added, I shall insist on their giving one also. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I insist on your leaving the room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Instead she insisted that he accept, and, indeed, take her with him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The stranger insisted on making Mr. Godfrey precede him; Mr. Godfrey said a few civil words; they bowed, and parted in the street. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I insisted on writing to Napier, who was at Melton Mowbray. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But, he, Pablo, blinded the _guardia civil_ who was wounded, the gypsy insisted. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Fight your way out of it somehow--you're young and can do it, she insisted. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Elliston insisted, and the white soup made its appearance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But the law insists on your smoking your cigar, sir, when you have once chosen it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They are opposed to the Countess's idea; but she is firm, and insists on a legal opinion. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Uncle doesn't know ten words, and insists on talking English very loud, as if it would make people understand him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The natural political map of the world insists upon itself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The parliament of Great Britain insists upon taxing the colonies; and they refuse to be taxed by a parliament in which they are not represented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Miss Porter insists that we have no absolute proof of his death--nor have we. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The renascence of China that began with Suy and culminated in Tang was, Mr. Fu insists, a real new birth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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.

Typed by Chauncey