importunity
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Her looks and ability soon bring success and a suitor, a white, amiable young financier whose importunity will not hear honest Mimi's tragic secret.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is the almost whimsical Morrow importunity an ideal substitute for angry notes and troops along the border?
From Time Magazine Archive
Here the gentlemen interposed with earnest petitions to be further enlightened on these two last-named points; but they got only blushes, ejaculations, tremors, and titters, in return for their importunity.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Baudricourt, at first, made light of her application; but her importunity, and the ardor she expressed, at length excited him.
From A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion by Offen, Benjamin
At last they were so annoyed by the importunity of the motley crowd, that we could have no more intercourse with them.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
