importunity

This time at last he thought of his own clumsy importunity.

She was an adult, amused by the importunities of a child.

Nor would he say another word though I besieged him long with importunities.

And I would sit in the darkness unable to keep my mind off him by reason of his importunities.

As you might well imagine our importunities to the guests now became more earnest.

Life would have been difficult in the extreme were I constantly exposed to the importunities of men.

But my importunities had earned me then only a cuffing.

I simply yield to the pressure of your importunity.

An old lady in a carriage at a shop door complained of my importunity.

His disturbance was excessive; but he would not listen to my importunities, or tell me what had happened.

"I only thank God for the strength that he gave me to hold out against that man's importunity."

I add one word your: importunity in this affair has been sufficient."

Sick of her importunities, these words will goad me to fury.

I yielded to their importunities on condition that they would never interfere with my beliefs.

He had done without her for so long that importunity (never in his character) was out of the question where she was concerned.

I would not, believe me, being nobly born, weary you with importunities into consent.

"I dared not stay my importunity even until you fulfilled your social obligation tonight.

Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities that more catholic and humane relations may appear.

This importunity had hardly arisen before it was gone.

His importunity finally changed Tchaikovsky's mind-after two years of effort.

She resists his importunities, and faints when he tries to force her.

"You will not refuse me so that you might withstand their importunities?"

She made no further reply to his importunities.

Dispute and importunities were like screaming insults to his struggling brain.

He had fallen under the spell of Vance's strange and dynamic importunities.