The personality of the player forced itself upon her with a curious insistence, and she had an odd feeling that he did it by deliberate intention.

he persisted, with cruel insistence.

she questioned, with feverish insistence, after the first futile attempt to speak.

But the steady insistence that we fight in this war for democracy has put into the minds of the people very definite demands for independence and for freedom.

"I don't care for those flat things," volunteered Violet Canby, as she departed lockerward at Miss Anderson's stern insistence.

He told himself with passionate insistence that they were the eyes of a truthful woman.

A small feeling of shame and regret began to develop with annoying insistence.

Then, with gentle insistence, he led Mary away.

" He kept a hand upon Piers' arm all the way up the stairs, deliberately restraining him, curbing the fevered impetuosity that urged him with a grim insistence that would not yield an inch to any chafing for freedom.

With a less heroic insistence on the historic method, I leave grandparents out of sight, and begin my gossip with the Queen's uncles.

There was something in the cool insistence of the young man, a quiet resolution in his voice as he claimed his Saturday, which aroused his curiosity.

"Would you?" he repeated, with arrogant insistence.

Those who misinterpret or misapply Pater forget his constant insistence on the second half of that precept.

And this, indeed, was what the voice said, what it repeated with keen insistence, never adding another syllable.

She must abdicate her mere crass insistence on commercial supremacy.

It is pretty plain that the compilers of the lives had some prerogatives, claims or rights to upholdhence this frequent insistence on the evil of resisting the Saint and presumably his successors.

Violet Oliver repeated, dwelling upon the word with a friendly insistence.

The loneliness, the coarseness, the everlasting insistence of the pettiest and most troublesome wants and difficulties, harden and brace many minds, but narrow most and torment some.

But he had little imagination, and his technical training had not emancipated him from an exaggerated insistence on detail, which so completely controlled his treatment of his subject that breadth and repose were entirely lost sight of.

And closely related to this omission is our extreme insistence upon what we call high moral character, meaning, really, something very like an entire absence of moral character.

Closely connected with this is one of the charges most commonly brought against Scott, particularly in his own daythe charge of a fanciful and monotonous insistence upon the details of armour and costume.

Would you?" He spoke with a fevered insistence.

Imagine now, a large and hungry bureaucracy, French in its fretful insistence on detail where detail is of no earthly moment, Oriental in its stress on etiquette and punctillo, recruited from a military caste accustomed for ages past to despise alike farmer and trader.

These and a hundred other questions descend on me with frightful insistence.

To keep two men fooled was no great feat, nor even to beguile her grandmother, whose gadfly insistence centred ever on the Brodnax fortune as their only true objective; but so to control things as not to fool herself at lastthat was the pinch.