An old friend coming to see me one day, and admiring a beautiful crystal which I had brought from the Moon, insisted on showing it to a jeweller, who said that it was an unusually hard stone, and that if it were a diamond, it would be worth upwards of 150,000 dollars.

The Chinese, always great sticklers for politeness, used to insist in early times that a warrior should not take advantage of his enemy when the latter had emptied his quiver, but wait for him to pick up his arrows before going on with the fight.

"'Yes, fair,' Henshaw insisted with some heat.

I shall insist to-night on accompanying her, as some of our physicians are going to be sent through the lines at the same time.

He afterwards crossed the Alps, and passed through a great part of Germany, mentioning, in his remarks, the great multitudes of Jews who were settled in the numerous cities of that extensive empire, insisting at large on their wealth, and generosity, and hospitality to their distressed brethren, and gives a particular detail of the manner in which they were received.

And the step which he thus recommended at the outset deserves attention as being also that on which a year later he still insisted as the indispensable preliminary to whatever line of conduct might be decided on.

Lord Robert is a great expertcan make a motor, I believe, or take it to pieces and put it together again; and he'd been insisting for days that she would be able to drive this Rajah car.

These safeguards should include that teaching about marriage on which I have insisted throughout the whole of this book.

But neither in that age, nor later in the case of Louis XIV, nor in our own day in the case of Leopold of Belgium has the Church had a word of reproach for monarchs who broke with impunity moral laws on which she claims always to have insisted without compromise.

While the reformers insisted above all things and in every direction on moral amendment, demagogism preferred to insist on the limitation of the powers of the government and the extension of those of the burgesses.

+ Insists on the right of search | | and impressment.

[Footnote 15: Collins in his pamphlet quotes a Dr. Grabe, who, following the Jewish code of rules as regards food, considered the eating of blood one of the points on which the Church did not insist against.

However, all except Harry, agreed to go, insisting among themselves that there was no danger.

I had insisted before my marriage that I must either do most of the housework, or keep up some of my old work to add to our income.

He insisted from day to day in bringing Douglas back to this issue: "What do you, Douglas, propose to do about slavery in the territories?

She has insisted of late that you would soon be coming home.

"May I come in, please?" he kept insisting over the 'phone.