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Sentences ending with insist

Two of these were supposed to go into the common fund, but there were clothes to buy; Lise loved finery, and Hannah had not every week the heart to insist. [9]
Joan of Arc was too proud to insist. [5]
They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. [2]
I did hope she and you would make your home here; but I own I have no right to insist. [7]
As to the punishment of the guilty: on that I insist. [10]
No, no, no, now, I insist. [5]
Preston did not insist. [9]
I noticed it; but I thought you were just dull, and so I didn't insist. [8]

Short sentences using insist

I should insist upon that. [8]
I insist upon my motion. [5]
I insist on knowing! [10]

More example sentences with the word insist in them

Do you adapt yourself and your surroundings to him, or insist that he shall adapt himself to you? [4]
He will help you, I am sure, with forming your committee and arranging, if you will insist on doing this thing. [11]
How agreeable do you suppose it is to have your well-meaning friends shout and screech at you, as if you were deaf as an adder, instead of only being, as you insist, somewhat hard of hearing? [6]
I will let you off at twenty-eight per cent.--twenty-seven--even twenty-five if you insist, for there is nothing illiberal about me when I am out on a diplomatic debauch. [5]
Two and two will undoubtedly make four, irrespective of the emotions or other idiosyncrasies of the calculator; and the three angles of a triangle insist on being equal to two right angles, in the face of the most impassioned rhetoric or the most inspired verse. [6]
Even the reformers will hardly insist upon two Presidents in order to carry out the equality idea, so that we are probably anticipating difficulties that will not occur in practice. [4]
The poor relation who was staying at the house would insist on Helen's remaining a few days: Old Sophy was in such a condition, that it kept her in continual anxiety, and there were many cares which Helen could take off from her. [6]
The foolish writers who insist on one's reading through their manuscript poems and stories ought to know how fatal the request is to their prospects. [6]
I insist that whether I shall be a whole man or only the half of one, in comparison with others is a question in which I am somewhat concerned, and one which no other man can have a sacred right of deciding for me. [7]
He added that, when his patience was at an end, he should positively insist on its surrender and bring every means at his disposal into play to procure it. [10]
I should insist upon your going to my house, if you were not claimed by your older friend Gen. Boswell. [5]
I must insist upon the honesty--it is an essential of successful business, taken by and large. [5]
If you insist upon it, surely I will come. [10]
What I insist upon is, that the new Territories shall be kept free from it while in the Territorial condition. [7]
You would insist upon having all. [9]
It is not unreasonable that we should have something to say concerning the doctrine to be preached here, that we should insist that that doctrine be in accordance with what we have always believed was the true doctrine as received by this Church. [9]
None would have troubled to insist that a certain stagnant pool in the village be filled up. [11]
They have assumed to make a national constitution of their own, in which of necessity they have either discarded or retained the right of secession as they insist it exists in ours. [7]
Now I insist this provision was made for Utah and New Mexico, and for no other place whatever. [7]
I insist that this is the difference between Judge Douglas and myself,--that Judge Douglas is helping that change along. [7]
I insist upon this government being placed where our fathers originally placed it. [7]
You insist on thinking that the time will come when she will return to you for help. [9]
However delightful all these may be, it is an offense to his individuality to insist that he shall admire at the point of the social bayonet. [4]
In view of these facts I do not hesitate in this year 1874, to repeat and insist upon the proposition which I enunciated in 1863: (74. [1]
Questionings no doubt there were, and, later, serious questionings; for habit is almost as strong as love, and the old ways of life and of thought will reassert themselves in a thoughtful mind, and reason will insist on analyzing passion and even hope. [4]
Besides the cathedral there were the very lovely cloisters, the noble chapter-house with its central pillar,--this structure has been restored and rejuvenated since my earlier visit,--and there were the peaceful dwellings, where I insist on believing that only virtue and happiness are ever tenants. [6]
The majority of them insist that humanity is not to be trusted. [9]
I said that the trouble, delay, and inconvenience of traveling with a courier were balanced by the deep respect which a courier's presence commands, and I must insist that as much style be thrown into my journeys as possible. [5]
We insist on the policy that shall restrict it to its present limits. [7]
The allotting of the measure of wealth would not be difficult to the socialists, because they would insist that every person should be born with an equal amount of property. [4]
The encounter with the maid at the Swiss knight's lodgings had first induced him to insist on his accusation so defiantly. [10]
You make him the idol, to humble me to a worm; and what you grant the she-wolf--the right of defence when men undertake to rob her of her young--you deny me, and, because I insist upon it, I must be a deluded, unbridled creature. [10]
Then I find the consumers of nothing but the salted and dried article insist that it is poisonous, simply because it is alive, and cry out to people not to touch it. [6]
Yet I insist that you have won this favour by your Demeter. [10]
Suppose, for example, that you don't get me, that my will intervenes, granting it to be conceivable that your future happiness and welfare, as you insist, depend upon your getting me--which I doubt. [9]
So I insist that this important part of speech should be brought forward to a position where it may be easily seen with the naked eye. [5]
First, I insist that the letter, which I confess to have written to the father of Nebenchari in a moment of inconsideration, be restored to me. [10]
The seceders insist that our Constitution admits of secession. [7]
I should insist that it would be exceedingly wrong in us to deny to Virginia the right to enact oyster laws, where they have oysters, because we want no such laws here. [7]
Finally, I insist that if there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never intrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions. [7]
Only in the suite designed for Margaret did Henderson seriously interfere, and insist upon a luxury that almost took my wife's breath away. [4]
They insist that such arrests shall not be made "outside of the lines of necessary military occupation and the scenes of insurrection. [7]
I knew that she would insist on telling my father, and thus possibly frustrate my plans. [9]
As to the secrecy of the transaction--I must of course insist on it as strongly--and more so--than yourself. [10]
If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality--its universality: if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension--its enlargement. [7]
If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension--its enlargement. [7]
I had a right to insist on his remaining here. [10]
You insist on reminding me of the fact. [11]
I shall very readily agree with him that it would be foolish for us to insist upon having a cranberry law here in Illinois, where we have no cranberries, because they have a cranberry law in Indiana, where they have cranberries. [7]
How is it possible that I can keep up my freedom of intercourse with you all if you insist on bellowing my "asides" through a speaking-trumpet? [6]
She was the only person in the house who dared to contradict her grandmother, and to insist on a thing when she thought it right. [10]
But I insist on saying she's your type--she's the kind of a person artists do dig up and marry--only better than most of them, far better. [9]
They will insist on reading you lessons out of it, whether you call them names or not. [6]
If they insist on moving forward, guide them to the village. [10]
She would insist on going to that tea-party; he knew it just as well before she spoke as after she had spoken. [6]
If you insist on fulfilling your oath to Pharaoh, and tell the elders the promises with which you came, you will win them over, I know. [10]
Scribblers will feed on each other, and if we insist on being scribblers we must consent to be fed on. [6]
When large numbers of strangers insist on claiming one as a friend, on the strength of what he has written, it tends to make him think of himself somewhat indulgently. [6]
As a matter of fact, Lise sometimes did insist on a "party. [9]
But this background of a great city, of an empire, is not essential to the breadth of treatment upon which we insist in fiction, to broad characterization, to the play of imagination about common things which transfigures them into the immortal beauty of artistic creations. [4]
You may insist now that my argument against your present conviction of the indissolubility of marriage is mere individualism, but I want you to think of what I have told you, not to answer me now. [9]
I hope you're not going to insist upon a probationary period of months before you decide whether you can reciprocate. [9]
I insist, for my own protection and that of my daughter, as well as for that of the others present that, since he refuses to speak, we must presume him guilty and turn him over. [9]
But observe the moderation of the King; he did not insist upon his encore. [5]
We don't want literary revenants, superfluous veterans, writers who have worn out their welcome and still insist on being attended to. [6]
I insist upon knowing why he made the bill silent upon that point when it was vocal before he put his hands upon it. [7]
They insist that it should, as far as may be, be treated as a wrong; and one of the methods of treating it as a wrong is to make provision that it shall grow no larger. [7]
I insist that it is not. [7]
I insist that it contained no general principle, but that it was, in every sense, specific. [7]
Then there are Isopodic societies, which insist on bringing back the original equality of the upper and lower limbs. [6]
He would have insisted, but his 'uncle' the Earl of Hertford whispered in his ear-- "Prithee, insist not, my lord; it is not meet that they sit in thy presence. [5]
Do you really insist upon meeting Hermon again? [10]
Some of these insist upon climbing up to the narrow deck, to sit on the roof and enjoy the moonlight and the cinders. [4]
Yes; we must insist that, under the circumstances, the American people have borne this outburst of English criticism in an admirable spirit. [4]
Others continued to insist that she had gone off with a man; but there was George Masson at Laplatte living alone, and never going twenty miles away from home, and he was the only person under suspicion. [11]
But if you insist that one is wrong and the other right, there is no use to institute a comparison between right and wrong. [7]
He used to insist on one small point with a certain philological precision, namely, the true meaning of the word "cure. [3]
But I still insist on my democratic liberty of choice, and I go for the man with the gallery of family portraits against the one with the twenty-five-cent daguerreotype, unless I find out that the last is the better of the two. [6]
Why should Rudyard insist on his reading it? [11]
Does he still insist on cooking with his own hands? [10]
She was conscientious in her duties, and would insist on reading every sentence,--there was no saying where she might find faults of grammar or bad spelling. [6]
Since you insist, I will banish him again, but I do not see how he can be unhappier than he already is. [5]
That is what I require and insist on. [10]
The mothers whom I nurse insist upon it. [10]
How that is, I do not know, and while it remains unexplained I hope to be pardoned if I insist that the mere fact of Judge Douglas making charges against Trumbull and myself is not quite sufficient evidence to establish them! [7]
He did not, however, insist on her being sent for, but his face wore an expression of deep melancholy and the words came faintly from his lips. [10]
He looked up hesitatingly, and then said to Armand: "You insist on it being read now? [11]
Neither was our hero a man to neglect, on account of strained relations, to insist upon his rights. [9]
I will not go to Canada, and I insist that you sail me back to Asquith. [9]
Orion was indeed furious when he heard of the seizure and occupation of the governor's residence; still, he believed that Amru would insist on restitution; but on hearing of his mother's death he broke down completely. [10]
They insist that for want of this their local troubles gradually grow worse. [7]
Some shrewd old doctors have a few phrases always on hand for patients that will insist on knowing the pathology of their complaints without the slightest capacity of understanding the scientific explanation. [3]
Our possessions were diminished; but it is for that very reason that I insist on our illustrious blood being recognized. [10]
If it should be true that his love for her was returned, it would not be possible even for them to insist upon a course that would make their daughter unhappy for life. [4]
The beds must be put in the front room; I insist upon it. [10]
Manners had come back from York with a cold on his chest, but would insist upon joining the party to Vauxhall on Monday. [9]
This is precisely as if a musician should insist on having nothing but perfect chords and simple melodies,--no diminished fifths, no flat sevenths, no flourishes, on any account. [6]
I have insisted, and still insist, that this cannot be true. [7]
I should assert and insist upon that, if judge Douglas denied it. [7]
I have heard an immense number of moral physicians lay down the treatment of moral Guinea-worms, and the vast majority of them would always insist that the creature had no head at all, but was all body and tail. [6]

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