Winning money can lead to unexpected and importunate events. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : importunate demands from the children for attention. From Dictionary.com.
But I explained, in my purest Tuscan, that I was not of the ordinary kind of importunate tourist. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The word "importunate" has the signification of a wearisome repetition of a request, a constant asking, impossible to satisfy. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn] Reference
'importunate' in asking again for my two Sophocles Abstracts, you must know that such importunity cannot but be grateful. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II] Reference
He made an effort to banish this importunate idea. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
No advertisement should be impertinent or importunate. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
She is not troubled by Penelope's importunate suitors. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
She was roused by him chafing her hands, and his importunate. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The financier's words had awakened importunate ideas in his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Somewhere near her feet the cricket gave out an importunate chirp. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
This time, however, it's Americans who're the importunate immigrants. From Wordnik.com. [The Karate Kid betrays America's fear of China] Reference
What most annoyed the king at this time was the importunate demands of. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
But the Bailò listened to their importunate pleadings as if it were a trifle. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
The sensations to which I allude, however, are of themselves but too importunate. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
But Obama has little choice but to offer up a smile — the smile of the importunate. From Wordnik.com. [Seeking Reassurance] Reference
The announcement of this levy made Lubeck for the moment more importunate than before. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
His importunate correspondent had proposed to call for him in Newcastle that very day. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Juan Volante was so importunate that he had to be heard in Council, but neither party yielded. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
He said to himself that he was nothing to her; that he was becoming importunate and ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She shook her head to chase the importunate vision away, and noiselessly regained her own apartment. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
During the first months of his reign Gustavus was made wretched by the importunate demands of Lubeck. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Besechyng yowre Grace also to pardon oure busy and importunate suts to the same in suche behalf made. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
She seemed to Esther like an importunate child, probing to know the future, which no one could foresee. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
It is this quality that makes one at least of Professor Rowley's friends so grateful and so importunate. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
King Ottoo, and his queen Edea, came on board, and were very importunate in their solicitations to Capt. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
To put an end to all further and importunate demands, he posted into Austria fast as he could be conveyed. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
The servant was sent to drive him away; still he returned again, and was more importunate than before to be let in. From Wordnik.com. [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
With such words as these day by day, both the woman was importunate with the young man, and he refused the adultery. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
Grand Duke Adalbert, deposed and impoverished, became simply a pensioner, and a most importunate blackmailer of myself. From Wordnik.com. [A Queen's Error] Reference
If he have an eye for the moral he will detect it at once; if not, there is no importunate author to force it upon him. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
So importunate, however, were the delegates, that at last he yielded, accepted their allegiance, and took the royal oath. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The girl still acted strangely, appearing to have some matter in thought importunate for expression, but nervously suppressed. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
"I am a Venetian," he answered coldly; and no longer hesitating to use the needful force to unclasp the clinging, importunate hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
From Tom the ladies soon learnt the scheme of the brothers with regard to their sister, and were importunate in their entreaties to hurry her arrival. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Since I have been reinstated in your favor, since I have been allowed to see you every day and every evening, I have asked myself if I have been importunate. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She never knew whether the word really passed her lips or whether it was only the cry of her inmost being, so importunate, so urgent that it seemed to take on actual sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
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