If his cause is just we gain by his insistency and determination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Birnier cursed the insistency of the drums and the orgiastical grunts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

He dreaded her will, her female will, and her modern female insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

Louise forced a disturbing entrance into his thoughts with a strange insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

Her hands and eyes became magical, her talk light and constant without insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

But he held her fast, and was murmuring with that intolerable softness and insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fox] Reference

As he mended she had to meet that request of his, advanced with even stronger insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Changed Man] Reference

Always, at night, as Jean lay thinking, this incident drifted with curious insistency through her mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

There was a strange insistency in the repeated question and a deep anxiety in his eyes, which passed as Kelham laughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference

At the sound of it the primeval lover, newly renascent in Mr. Strumley's breast, cowed before the power of genitorial insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

The antic world behind the world—with its dinosaurs and wizards, its talking elephants and two-headed tigers—asserted itself with pushy insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [In This Way I Was Saved] Reference

For more than two hours they kept up the search without result, and the fact that they had not had their supper was forced upon them with growing insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy] Reference

To-day there is a demand, growing in insistency, that we accept the right of each member of the family circle to individual development and work toward its realization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Family and it's Members] Reference

I asked with some insistency, where this joke was to end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3] Reference

The insistency was too direct; "the queen's wish was a command.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio Boys Cronies] Reference

Hurstwood almost exclaimed out loud at the insistency of this thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference

Judas began to question impatiently and hotly, with stern insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crushed Flower and Other Stories] Reference

Gospel to the heathens, claimed with much insistency this title and its rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

And now, ’ continues the count, ‘I thank you from my heart for your insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Mackellar’s Journey with the Master] Reference

The thoughts of the gradual loss of his faculties haunted him with curious insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Irving] Reference

He tried to put the question without insistency, in a tone quite compatible with friendliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

One cannot meet them effectively by mere counter-insistency on war's expensiveness and horror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Studies] Reference

But at last it grated on him by its insistency and he opened his eyes to learn the cause of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Okewood of the Secret Service] Reference

He was a little irritated, and slightly amused, by the recurring insistency with which his mind turned to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alaskan] Reference

There was a compelling insistency in the sound and, with a muttered imprecation, he jerked the receiver from the hook.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest] Reference

After a time the Roman hastati on the left, unable to withstand the insistency of the Latins, retired behind the principes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. II] Reference

"I would give him everything I have, if I could," she answered simply, all her insistency gone, the tears starting to her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides of Barnegat] Reference

'Two Men In New Tuxedos' is as quirky a song as the band have ever written, the sheer insistency of its anchor line, 'Hey teacher!.    From Wordnik.com.  [DIY Feed] Reference

But they have one worshipful element in them, which is, the divine insistency upon there being two sides to a case -- to every case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

If the offer was made with noticeable insistency, he shook his head and distorted the features of his face until he resembled an irritated ape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference

The insistency of his religious conversation was, probably, the less incomprehensible to me on account of the evangelical training to which I had been so systematically subjected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference

A living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Performance Review Report Conclusion] Reference

French again? "writes Sismondi, and there is a pathetic insistency in the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Countess of Albany] Reference

Flinx coughed delicately but insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tar-Aiym Krang]

Plucks me yet back with cold insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Faust] Reference

He spoke with a certain gentle insistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossamer 1915] Reference