127 collocations for insists

" "I sent one here," insisted the man, "and I'm hungry.

" "What did you do?" insisted the stern, crisp, un-western voice.

"It's almighty heavy," insisted the captain.

"Wire is what the circus performers use," insisted her brother, "but if you can't find any I suppose rope will do.

My wife had an independent fortune of her ownshe had no extravagant tastes' "'Nor any friend you at any time objected to?' insisted the coroner.

" "Couldn't the class decide that better than one man?" insisted Farley, his eyes gleaming.

There must be still another way of excelling,' insisted the Härjedal smith.

He was going to be president of the college some day, like his father before him; an' it was her place to help him in every way she couldhelp him to be popular an' well-liked by all the college people an' students; an' he couldn't be that if she insisted all the time on keepin' him to herself, or lookin' sour an' cross if she couldn't have him.

"You must come," insisted the detective.

I knew you'd say we must take a taxi!" insisted Brown, astonished at his own "clairvoyance.

"But Défago surely had already told you all these details of the Wendigo legend, my dear fellow," insisted the doctor.

"If you please..." insisted the imperturbable bey.

" "Yas," insisted the blacksmith, "he 's got some gal on his min'.

Mrs. Smith, believing that Severin designed to murder her husband, insisted on his calling his young men to assist him, which he did; and on arriving at the scene of slaughter, a most horrid spectacle was before them: five dead bodies weltering in blood, aside from that of the innocent babe, whose little form lay roasted and charred, on the fatal and bloody hearthstone of the drunkard!

" "But will they really kill her?" insisted Bosio, half breathless in his fear and nervous excitement.

" "No, we're going to be pirates, and I'm the chief one," insisted Buddy.

"I'm going to say 'em," insisted Camilla with malicious satisfaction.

" "But you do know something about it," insisted Carroll icily.

"What chance, sir?" he insisted.

" "Well, then what are you afraid of?" insisted Chet.

" "Andand" insisted the chorus.

This increase in the number of capital punishments was attributed by Romilly in great part to Madan's Thoughts on Executive Justice; 'a small tract, in which, by a mistaken application of the maxim "that the certainty of punishment is more efficacious than its severity for the prevention of crimes," he absurdly insisted on the expediency of rigidly enforcing, in every instance, our penal code, sanguinary and barbarous as it was.

"I beg pardon," insisted the new-comer pleasantly.

" "But I want you on the case," insisted the commissary.

The rule formerly insisted upon: "No compulsion in religion," was sacrificed, since experience taught him, that the truth was more easily forced upon men by violence than by threats which would be fulfilled only after the resurrection.

127 collocations for  insists