Ellen was not a fool and he noted her insistence on the value of the shares to him.

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.

" His voice held insistence.

Incidentally may be noted the one defect in Mr. Plummer's great workits author's almost irritating insistence on pagan origins, nature myths, and heathen survivals.

He felt upon him the insistence of a divine command, and straightway asked to be led before Mahomet that he might unburden his conviction to him.

In the East great social distinctions occur; but while religion recognises them, it forbids insistence upon them.

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

The history of a thousand men gives the tradition power, gives it insistence.

He couldn't understand the man's insistence on remaining where clearly he was an intruder.

"Importunate insistence on Nationality"the words come home to us now with a new meaning when we learn that in Belgium, now perforce "dependent on a foreign culture," babies are registered under German names and newspapers printed in "the dominant language," and that already "forty newspaper vendors in Brussels have been sentenced to long terms of hard labour in German prisons for selling English, French, and Belgian newspapers."

But he very rarely did wish: it was apt to involve a tiresome insistence.

She must abdicate her mere crass insistence on commercial supremacy.

You know the keen insistence of the hungry hen!

This would be obvious in any case, but what makes insistence upon it peculiarly urgent is the manifestly temporary nature of the present European situation and the fact that within quite a small number of years our war front will be turned in a direction quite other than that to which it faces now.

He stammered excuses but she mistook his insistence, thinking that he was trying to lock her in.

But Mr. Portlethorpe, it was clear, had no taste for mysteries, and no great desire to forsake his own bed, even for Mr. Lindsey's hospitality, and it needed insistence before he consented to go back to Berwick with us.

Here really begins the insistence upon restrictive regulations for women which has been ever since the bane of Islam.

She might have kept a Whipple noseWhipple in all essentialswithout too pressing an insistence upon bulk.

It is this nullification of the human element, of the person as such, the introduction of the gross aggregate with its artificial corporate quality, and the attempt to establish a correspondence between these unnatural things, the whole being intensified by the emotions of fear, distrust and hate, which produces the contemporary insistence on "rights" and the rank injustice, cruelty and disorder that follow the blind contest.

Bitterly did Captain Trebizondi regret his constant insistence upon the fact that he was senior Captainfor he was given command of "A" Company, the post of honour and danger in front of all, and was implored to "pull it through" and not to stand staring like an owl when the Colonel said the battalion would advance; or turn to the left when he shouted "In succession advance in fours from the right of Companies".

" Of course the language used in the House weakened his influence abroad, and the foreign Governments shewed more insistence when they found out that the Prussian Parliament supported their demands.

" "The police have about the same method for each casea sort of bullying insistence that breaks down denial by sheer weight.

Meantime by word and act they pursued a course which might be held to mean, as occasion demanded, either mere insistence upon Kentucky's admission to the Union as a separate State, or else a movement for complete independence with a Spanish alliance in the background.