" The music of poesy may charm for a while the importunate, teasing cares of life; but the teased and troubled man is not in a disposition to make that music.

They were become powerful, thrusting aside the veils, exposing before his eyes the importunate, corporeal and brutal reality.

Selkirk had not to fear the importunate, unexpected visit of a neighbor or a curious stranger.

He's getting importunate.

He himself opened the entrance door, scanned the faces of those who came, and kept away the importunate and the useless.

v. 241, et seq.] was scarcely able to satisfy the more importunate of his creditors, and to dole out an occasional pittance to his more immediate followers.