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"Oh, it's monstrous, it's abominable! That boy can't stop here another minute." "Oh, but, mother why?" Sally exclaimed importunately. "What's he done he's done nothing." "If you had a little more understanding about the laws of propriety, you wouldn't ask a ridiculous question like that. The boy must go at once.
One remark which he let fall has been remembered as evidence of his querulous state of mind: "You are pressing me too importunately" exclaimed the unhappy President; "you don't give me time to consider; you don't give me time to say my prayers; I always say my prayers when required to act upon any great state affair."
"Time enough when there is no hope; I will not go out to meet sorrow." With a sudden, inexplicable revulsion of feeling she sank on her knees, and there beside her protector vehemently prayed Almighty God to guard and guide the tempest-tossed loved one. If her eyes had rested on the face of Deity, and she had felt his presence, her petition could not have been more importunately preferred.
And when they came to Jesus, they entreated him importunately, saying, He is a worthy man on whom thou wilt confer this favour: for he loveth our nation, and hath himself built us a synagogue. Then Jesus went with them.
A great weariness made Billy's limbs heavy, as if they did not belong to her, and imperceptibly she passed over into a dream-state, into that torturing somnolescence of first sleep in which the dream-figures approach us so importunately.
On the 2d of February, 1651, the Duke, urged very importunately by the Princes' party informing him that their liberty depended on it, told them that he was going to perform an action which would remove all their diffidence.
Alarmed and frantic she hurried along the path, and now I saw her on the promontory, and now by yonder pine, devouring with her glances every crevice in the rock. At length perceiving me, she flew to where I stood, by the fatal precipice, and having noticed the fragments fresh crumbled in, pored importunately on my countenance.
"Announce to his majesty that I am here, and plead importunately for an audience," said a soft, sweet voice. "The king has commanded that no one shall be admitted." "Announce me, nevertheless," said the petitioner imperiously. "That is impossible!" Frederick had heard enough. He stepped to the door and threw it open. "Signora, I am ready to receive you; have the goodness to enter."
15 "Lie at Jesus Christ;" to lay down, lie at the feet of Jesus Christ, to persevere like the Syrophenician woman, Mark 7:25. Ed. 16 "Ply;" to solicit importunately. Ed. 17 "A flam;" a fable, an imposition. 18 "Most an end;" continually, perpetually.
The story itself is not much amiss, and therefore you shall have it. A count of a very great family, and with whom I had the honour to be familiarly intimate, being married to a very fair lady, who had formerly been pretended to and importunately courted by one who was invited to and present at the wedding.
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