At that time I did not like him because he seemed to me unduly insistent on his rights and I could not help wondering at the tactlessness of the grown-up people in choosing him as my travelling companion.

" "Kieff gave it you," he said, his tone grimly insistent.

Every civilization at one or another stage in its development has subordinated unity to the increasingly insistent demands of diversity.

Again the knock sounded; louder, more insistent.

It was a big, smooth-stone-faced house, product of the 'Seventies, frowning under an outrageously insistent Mansard, capped by a cupola, and staring out of long windows overtopped with "ornamental" slabs.

When once detached, as it were, from the vague murmurs of the breathing air it becomes curiously insistent.

Not only did I feel my duty to my fellows to be more clear and sure; but my own need of help, my own insignificance, to be more pleasantly insistent.

From far down this line came a low ringing chant and the strangely insistent drum-beats.

It was as ifstanding there with her head cocked and beneath a shadowy blue sailor-hat, a smile coming outsomething within her was playing, sweetly insistent to be heard.

To the nation such a message was not without its practical application and value, but it failed completely to meet the individual problems that became pathetically insistent during the middle of the fifth century B.C. IV.