Importunate

Concerned, perhaps, that his tone might offend, Morris closed with what might be termed a bit of gallows humor: “While I assure you that nothing but the urgency of our affairs would render me thus Importunate, I must also assure you that whilst those affairs continue so Urgent I must continue to Importune.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Concerned, perhaps, that his tone might offend, Morris closed with what might be termed a bit of gallows humor: “While I assure you that nothing but the urgency of our affairs would render me thus Importunate, I must also assure you that whilst those affairs continue so Urgent I must continue to Importune.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Importunate scruples were added to temptation, and while thus violently assailed on many sides, she seemed not to receive light or comfort from any.

The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community

Importunate as the West is now represented to be on another subject, the importunity of the East on that occasion was far greater.

On the Foote Resolution 1906

"Importunate?" asked K. "Yes," said the lawyer, laughing as he did so, had a fit of coughing and then, once it had passed, began to laugh again.

The Trial Franz Kafka 1903

Importunate woman, take your fee, basely extracted from me in a moment of weakness.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Importunate scruples were added to temptation, and while thus violently assailed on many sides, she seemed not to receive light or comfort from any.

The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation Anonymous 1880

Importunate request; an insistent or pressing demand. indefeasible

Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Seward, William H 1849

Importunate clients, who would make appointments at unseasonable hours and would keep to them, might confide in the partner, though they would not in the clerk.

A Dark Night's Work Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Importunate request; an insistent or pressing demand. indefeasible

Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States William Henry Seward 1836