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If I write, as I find I must, I insist upon your forbearing to write. Your silence to this shall be the sign to me that you will not think of the rashness you threaten me with: and that you will obey your mother as to your own part of the correspondence, however; especially as you can inform or advise me in every weighty case by Mr. Hickman's pen.
He was a machine for earning so much money a week, and would at least give faithful work for his wages until the day of final breakdown. But, midway in the week, Carter discovered how ill his clerk was. 'You ought to be in bed, my dear fellow, with gruel and mustard plasters and all the rest of it. Go home and take care of yourself I insist upon it.
It is agreed now among all men and all nations that any people may change its form of government to any other, if it wills to do so and if it can do so. There are two other points on which these Northern statesmen and logicians also insist, and these two other points are at any rate better worth an argument than that which touches the question of revolution.
Why cannot we live at peace with those who will, and fight only with those who insist on war." "Go, Teyma, stop your mouth with blubber," said the chief, rising; "I am weary of you. I tell you, Amalatok shall die; Puiroe shall be mine. The tribes shall all learn to tremble at the name of Grabantak and to respect the men of Flatland."
Oh, monsieur, is that reasonable?" "I violate my word of honour, my oath, if I tell you." M. de Kercadiou turned away, wringing his hands, his condition visibly piteous; then turned again to Andre. "But in this extremity, in this desperate extremity, and since you so ungenerously insist, I shall have to tell you. God help me, I have no choice. She will realize that when she knows.
Then turning coolly to Captain Bramble, he said: "A trembling hand, sir, is hardly so sure of its aim as that." "This fellow is the evil one himself," whispered the surgeon to his principal. "Come, let us on board, if he should insist upon at second shot, we should be obliged to give him the chance, since he did not fire at you, and he would drop you spite of fate."
'You are endeavouring to conceal something from me, she cried, with the quick instinct of a woman. 'I assure you that I tell you all I know. The Empress's eyes darted from face to face. 'Marshal Berthier, she cried, 'I insist upon your telling me this instant where the Emperor is, and what he is doing. The slow-witted soldier stammered and twisted his cocked hat about.
If I insist a little upon the high office which this modern form of publication fulfils in the literary world, it is because I am impatient of the antiquated and ignorant prejudice which classes the magazines as ephemeral.
When the civil population of any country has lost its pluck, no matter how splendid the spirit of its soldiers, its armies become paralysed. The civilians can commence peace negotiations behind the backs of their men in the trenches. They can insist on peace by refusing to send them ammunition and supplies.
The effect of John's lawless practices had already appeared in the general demand made by the barons of a restoration of their privileges; and after he had reconciled himself to the Pope, by abandoning the independence of the kingdom, he appeared to all his subjects in so mean a light that they universally thought they might with safety and honor insist upon their pretensions.
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