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"Who is it?" he called imperiously, and took a half dozen rapid strides toward the foot of the staircase.

The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Therefore, 'Hey! boy,' she called imperiously, 'come and help me! quick!'

A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

"Who is it?" he called imperiously, and took a half dozen rapid strides toward the foot of the staircase.

The Circular Staircase 1908

"Don't you drive over them wickets!" she called imperiously, when Eben came up from the lot in his dingle cart.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

"Don't you drive over them wickets!" she called imperiously, when Eben came up from the lot in his dingle cart.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

For no sooner had the ghost, armed with the stone club, stepped down to the sea-shore than he called imperiously for the ferry-boat.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Grandmother called imperiously, but there was no answer.

Master of the Vineyard Myrtle Reed 1892

His wife shouted out his name imperiously from the dark passage, "Fritz!

The Chink in the Armour Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

She's penniless, "and he called imperiously for a magnum of champagne, whereupon the bartender suggested we go elsewhere.

The New York Review of Books 2009

'You!' the Italian called imperiously to a youth pressing forward to hear the conversation.

Mexico Michener, James 1992