Adjective : importunate demands from the children for attention. From Dictionary.com.
Wishing to have all on our side, we often leave those we should keep by us, run after those we should avoid, and call importunately on others who sit quiet and will not come. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
Gentlewoman, seeing her selfe so importunately pursued, and Friar. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
The old woman, holding out her hand importunately, stopped to beg of Mrs Skewton. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
Yet the new century clamours importunately, not so much for great men, as for good men. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
Everyone will not buy your books and more importunately, it is impossible to market to "everyone.". From Wordnik.com. [Successful Self-publishing - Key questions for authors #1] Reference
If my readings are of little value, they have not been ostentatiously displayed or importunately obtruded. From Wordnik.com. [Preface to Shakespeare] Reference
In fact, so importunately did he pursue the subject with his superiors that he had to be constrained to silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
And it had been Miss Trapp who had insisted so importunately that Vanda Lane should retire to her room that day. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
At a distance Hauptmann perceived one who importunately offered a small object to the sightseers and was as regularly repulsed. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
Since I ran this like a motion hearing, rather than a true debate, I took the importunately to ask him questions and challenge his argument. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Posterity lays on the marble heads of departed eminent men, this pretentious disciple of the Muse importunately claimed his full recompense during his own life. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
To effect these desirable objects, so importunately called for by every sentiment of a feeling heart, union and concentration of energy appear to be indispensible. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
Some of the prisoners who importunately insisted on seeing the king, and making before him a profession of their faith, were summarily hanged from the castle windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Unto me then that had offended and that had begged so importunately for his pardon, the brahmana said, 'That which, O Suta, hath been uttered by me is sure to happen. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
They then desired me to go and take part of a Glass of Wine with them; which I at first seem'd to scruple, but being more importunately urg'd, I was easily perswaded. From Wordnik.com. [The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women] Reference
And Mohammad al-Fayed came at her always, you know, importunately saying, you know, showering her with flowers and gifts and come and stay in my villa in the south of France. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2007] Reference
Yet it haunted him, though at rare intervals, and not importunately. From Wordnik.com. [Major Vigoureux] Reference
Not the less, however, came this importunately obtrusive sense of change. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
A LADY was followed by a beggar, who very importunately asked her for alms. From Wordnik.com. [The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings] Reference
In New York mysteries beckoned at every street corner, but too importunately. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand in the Dark] Reference
But she had only meant it for that evening, and he had gone on importunately. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Salem] Reference
They presented their bills so importunately that payment had to be made promptly in blood. From Wordnik.com. [Three Boys in the Wild North Land] Reference
The citizens, not bearing to see so rich a prey escape them, demanded importunately that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference
My hunger, thus importunately urged, would not abstain, and I ate of the food that was provided. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
His advice was never asked, and, when obtrusively and importunately offered, was coldly received. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference
His guilt was fully established; and a party among the Whigs called loudly and importunately for his head. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
Finsbury, of Marylebone, of Lambeth, of the Tower Hamlets, will, importunately and clamorously, demand redress from the reformed. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
You have lost your only son; are mute, struck down, without even tears: an importunate man importunately offers to celebrate Funeral. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11] Reference
He reappeared in various forms, always soliciting charity, more and more importunately every time, and always receiving the same denial. From Wordnik.com. [Gryll Grange] Reference
Oh, still more stupendous mercy, that this poor ungrateful sinner should be exhorted, invited, nay, commanded, to pray -- to pray importunately. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
To this rude clamor, importunately urged as the voice of the nation, Amalasontha was compelled to yield her reason, and the dearest wishes of her heart. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
Blackhead, therefore, after begging importunately, but in vain, to be suffered to have one look at the study, was forced to content himself with dropping the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
'But a Grammar, a Dictionary, and a History of our Language through its several stages, were still wanting at home, and importunately called for from abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765] Reference
One remark which he let fall has been remembered as evidence of his querulous state of mind: "You are pressing me too importunately" exclaimed the unhappy President. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North] Reference
You have lost your only son; are mute, struck down, without even tears: an importunate man importunately offers to celebrate Funeral Games for him in the manner of the Greeks!. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
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