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Sentences ending with imperious

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service are imperious. [4]
Indeed, it is hard to tell how far the case might have been pushed if she had not suddenly looked a little forbidding and imperious. [11]
While loving her and David profoundly, her father had ever been quietly imperious. [11]

More example sentences with the word imperious in them

She checked Myrtilus's words with an imperious "Let me alone! [10]
Our world, too, with all its breathing life, is but a leaf to be folded with the other strata, and if I am only patient, by and by I shall be just as famous as imperious Caesar himself, embedded with me in a conglomerate. [6]
His eyes twinkled with a tipsy leer in his flushed face, and yet he was perfectly competent; and his instructions to the senate, though imperious indeed, were neither more nor less rational than in his soberest moods. [10]
She had a way of carrying her head, of throwing it back at times, that was not exactly imperious, and conveyed the impression of spirit rather than of mere vivacity. [4]
Her imperious determination was not to be resisted. [6]
She knew the twists and turns of her uncle's temper, and how he was imperious and jealous in little things. [11]
Hermon remembered all this himself, yet, with an imperious curtness in marked contrast to his usual pleasant manner to this worthy servant, he hoarsely commanded him to bring Chello to him early the next morning, and then again relapsed into his solitary meditations. [10]
This sound was the imperious command of a rough man's voice, that--no, he was not mistaken--that was his own name, and it came from the lips of his Myrtilus, anxiously, urgently calling for assistance. [10]
Her conversation with the editor of the Record proved so entertaining that she forgot all about the clipping until she had reached Fairview, and had satisfied a somewhat imperious appetite by a combination of lunch and afternoon tea. [9]
The first was stern, imperious, reproachful.--Shame for those that took him in and made him, a ruined reputation, a spoiled tradition: he had been but a heathen after all! [11]
I could have staked my life that Mrs. Falchion was insensible to love or passion, and unimpeachable in the broad scheme of right and wrong; imperious in requiring homage, incapable of giving it. [11]
One would have said her features had lost something of that look of imperious beauty which had added to her resemblance to the dead woman whose glowing portrait hung upon her wall. [6]
She had done right, and rejoiced that this time she had obeyed the voice of her imperious soul. [10]
Only there is one point," and as he uttered the words his voice assumed an imperious tone, "which is already irrevocably decided. [10]
The slight arch of the nose, the lofty brow, the light down on the upper lip, and the deep voice even gave her a somewhat imperious aspect. [10]
Like many people of strong and imperious temper, he was soft-voiced and very gentle in his address, when he had no special reason for being otherwise. [6]
Just at that moment a short, imperious sound reached her ear. [10]
Perhaps that made me a little imperious, a little superior in manner. [11]
It was the look of a man who might be the moving spirit of one of those rebellions which were frequent in Alexandria; there was an imperious ring in his voice, and decision in the swift gestures of his hardened but shapely hands. [10]
Olympius was still in concealment in the house of Porphyrius--Olympius, whose mind and will had formerly had such imperious hold on the fate of the city, and to whose nod above half of the inhabitants were still obedient. [10]
Willful, generous, forgiving, imperious, affectionate, improvident, bewitching, in short--was Laura at this period. [5]
It makes men imperious to sit a horse; no man governs his fellows so well as from this living throne. [6]
Her eyes met his, and such a glow of indignation, nay, wrath, so imperious a prohibition flashed from his glance that her flushed cheeks paled, and she strove to withdraw her hand from the duke's. [10]
He sat at his table, which was covered with open law-books and papers, but his eyes were on the distant mountain, and every scent-laden breeze wafted in at his open window seemed the bearer of a tremulous, wistful, yet imperious message--"Come! [9]
Bias angrily turned his back upon her and, in the early light of the moon, walked toward the shore, but she hastened after him, seized his arm and, with imperious firmness, commanded: "You will stay! [10]
Probably she heard him call her name more than three times; doubtless, afterward she fancied that she remembered how his voice had sounded in beseeching, tender, at last even imperious tones through the empty corridors; but she did not turn, and hurried into her room. [10]
Sometimes with touching entreaty, sometimes with imperious command, she protested, after giving him her name, that this matter could be nothing but an unfortunate mistake. [10]
The guests sat, closely crowded together, in a circle, and seemed grave and taciturn; but their words sounded passionate, imperious, defiant, and the speakers often struck their coats of mail with their clenched fists, or pounded on the floor with their swords. [10]
I think they can be controlled quite as well through their curiosity; that being the more craving and imperious of the two. [4]
These are three brothers, and one we know--gallant, imperious, cordial, having the superior ease of the courtier. [11]
The newspaper is as imperious as a Russian Ukase; it will be had, and it will be read. [6]
Charles, still in an angry, imperious tone, ordered her to rise. [10]
But worst of all, we ignore and never mention the Sole Impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs. [5]
Spite of his age, he stood before her in the full flush of manhood and stately dignity, and the beseeching expression of eyes whose glance was wont to be so imperious and steadfast stirred the inmost depths of her soul. [10]
The imperious word "ought" seems merely to imply the consciousness of the existence of a rule of conduct, however it may have originated. [1]

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