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Sentences ending with insisted

I didn't want to go to Bessie's dinner, but she insisted. [9]
Stanchly he struggled on, his weight upon Perrot, till presently he leaned a hand also on Jessica's shoulder- she had insisted. [11]
There is some mystery about him," she insisted. [9]
The Bishop still insisted. [5]
We could help him, perhaps," Sheila insisted. [11]
The next morning he led out his pony from the stables for me to ride, and insisted. [9]
If he could have used the hammer and chisel, the thing might have become more powerful; but how many things he had had to consider in employing the accursed gold and ivory upon which Archias obstinately insisted! [10]

Short sentences using insisted

John insisted on stopping awhile. [5]

Sentences containing insisted two or more times

I think on the whole, since you have insisted upon my coming to you--" "H-hain't insisted that I know of," said Jethro. [9]

More example sentences with the word insisted in them

This was coincident with his failure at the ash-factory, where he mismanaged and even robbed Jean Jacques right and left; and she had firmly insisted on Jean Jacques evicting him, on the ground that it was not Sebastian Dolores' bent to manage a business. [11]
Even a stone with a whitish band crossing it, belonging to the pavement of the back-yard, insisted on becoming one of the talismans of memory. [6]
The traditionists, in whose presumptuous hands the science of anthropology has been trusted from time immemorial, have insisted on eliminating cause and effect from the domain of morals. [6]
My Lord March, who did me the honour to lay one hundred pounds upon my skill, insisted that I should make one of a party to the famous amphitheatre near Lambeth. [9]
As the two whispered to one another and looked tenderly at each other--for Diodoros had insisted on her allowing him to kiss not only her hands but also her sweet red lips--Berenike had pictured her dead daughter in Melissa's place. [10]
The next morning, when the market was crowded, the officer might commence his negotiations afresh, if the Regent insisted on his plan. [10]
Inconceivable though it were (a middle-of-the-night reflection), if he insisted on trying to keep such a woman bottled up in Rivington she might some day pack up and leave him. [9]
She insisted it was too soon. [4]
Precisely because he was so strongly attached to this unfortunate woman, once so richly gifted, he desired to offer her the opportunity to obtain pardon from Heaven, and therefore insisted upon her retiring to the convent. [10]
Mrs. Clemens, herself, was not in the best of health at this time, but devotion to her father took her to his bedside, where she insisted upon standing long, hard watches, the strain of which told upon her severely. [5]
At noon Hanno was about to get into a boat to go to her father's ship, and she insisted upon accompanying him. [10]
He expressed this view to his master, and insisted upon his opinion until Hermon confided to him what had driven Archias from Alexandria. [10]
The judge insisted upon their answering, and proposed to compel them, but even the prosecution took fright and came to the rescue then, and helped stay the sturdy jurist's revolutionary hand. [5]
She has insisted upon putting the individual in a straitjacket, she has never recognized that growth is the secret of life, that the clothes of one man are binding on another. [9]
Unfortunately, I insisted upon my plan, and the next morning sailed in a pouring rain through a dense mist to the mouth of the Weser and out to sea. [10]
Manners came in upon me, and insisted that I should stay for dinner. [9]
He insisted, therefore, upon its being changed from the basis upon which the fathers of the government left it to the basis of its perpetuation and nationalization. [7]
Yet he insisted upon his purpose of not entering Alexandria again until he had resigned his office, and to do this at present was impossible, since he was bound just now, as if with chains, to the important frontier fortress. [10]
But he insisted upon grammatical correctness, and never lost sight of his maxim, "The school should teach its pupils to do thoroughly whatever they do at all. [10]
Then he insisted upon getting on his feet, that they might make their way to the governor's house. [11]
He had insisted upon gazing at the universe through the coloured glasses of an outworn theology, instead of using his own eyes. [9]
Ruth resolutely insisted upon accompanying him, and he well knew what urged her to risk safety and life as freely as he did himself. [10]
He could not understand why Blanche should stagger and grow white when he told her; nor why she insisted on taking the liquor herself. [11]
The sight of two gold pieces made the thing possible in the landlord's eyes, and Madame Marie urged no more, but found some refreshment, of which she gently insisted that Madelinette should partake. [11]
At length Miss Treherne came to us and said that Justine insisted she was well enough to go back to the vessel alone, and wished not to be accompanied. [11]
He insisted upon treating her as the same Honora. [9]
When Marya Dmitrievna told Natasha that Anatole was married, Natasha did not wish to believe it and insisted on having it confirmed by Pierre himself. [2]
He then represented to them the fearful risk to which their folly had exposed them, and insisted very positively on their returning home and, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, taking a bath and putting on fresh garments. [10]
When he came to the office he insisted on discussing the case with Mr. Watling, who sent for me. [9]
He was glad to see Prince Andrew, as he was to see any new visitor, and insisted on his staying the night. [2]
Comyn was taken to his house in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, in Sir Charles's coach, whither I insisted upon preceding him. [9]
We should like to believe, but, as George says, all our education contradicts the doctrines that are most insisted upon. [9]
I, too, have thought this out, Nancy," I insisted, "and the fact is that in our respective marriages we have been, each of us, victims of our time, of our education. [9]
I insisted upon this, and stuck to my point. [5]
A few more things might have been taken out, but Natasha insisted on having her own way. [2]
Tom insisted that they were; it was an added distinction. [9]
Then he said they might go together; but she insisted that she must make the way clear, and have everything ready. [11]
She lovingly drew the young wife down by her side on the divan, and insisted on Nefert's letting her know all that troubled her spirit. [10]
He alone during the whole retreat insisted that battles, which were useless then, should not be fought, and that a new war should not be begun nor the frontiers of Russia crossed. [2]
He insisted on the same principle as Judge Douglas; but his mode of applying it, in fact, was wrong. [7]
Now I'm on the rocks, because you insisted on saving my life; and you just got to take care of me. [11]
They insisted on the retention of the camp at Drissa, according to Pfuel's plan, but on changing the movements of the other armies. [2]
He insisted that the match should come off in Hyde Park. [9]
I insisted on the dresses being made quite plainly. [14]
On the fifteenth, the day of the old prince's death, the Marshal had insisted on Princess Mary's leaving at once, as it was becoming dangerous. [2]
A table in the corner, where Lula Chandos had insisted on playing bridge, was covered with scattered cards and some bills, a decanter of whiskey, two soda bottles, and two glasses. [9]
The chef at the club, Mr. Scherer insisted, could produce nothing equal to Heinrich's sauer-kraut and sausage. [9]
If Pharaoh returned, the body-guards would take him prisoner and remove him as Siptah, who liked no halfway measures, had secretly directed, while the chief-priest insisted upon keeping him in mild imprisonment. [10]
Two voted with the Bishop and insisted upon the torture. [5]
They have insisted that whatever of small irregularities existed in getting up the Lecompton Constitution were such as happen in the settlement of all new Territories. [7]
It is insisted that their presence would injure and displace white labor and white laborers. [7]
Dr. Puffer insisted that the man died from the effects of the wound in the chest. [5]
She told Philip that she was proud of him, and then insisted that, when his biography, life, and letters was published, it would appear, she hoped, that his dear friend had just a little to do with inspiring him. [4]
Mrs. Merrill insisted that Jethro should pour out his coffee in what she was pleased to call the old-fashioned way. [9]
The ill-disposed insisted that Hermon had only done what duty commanded the meanest man, and the fact that he had deceived all Alexandria still remained. [10]
Barbara now stated that he was the son of a respectable family, and had by no means come here to steal the property of others; but the marquise, though she probably correctly interpreted the handsome young fellow's late visit, vehemently insisted upon his arrest. [10]
He always insisted that he had previously written other articles which in his eyes certainly were just as good as they, if not better. [4]
It is insisted that eight duels a week--four for each of the two days--is too low an average to draw a calculation from, but I will reckon from that basis, preferring an understatement to an overstatement of the case. [5]
Dr. Copland insisted that contagion had caused these cases; advised precautionary measures, and the practitioner had no other cases for a considerable time. [3]
Everyone assured himself that all would happen according to plan, and therefore insisted that it was just the crossing of the Berezina that destroyed the French army. [2]
We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there. [9]
But as the tailor insisted that the matter would permit no delay, he invited him to step aside with him, in order not to make the councillors who were with him witnesses of the unpleasant discussion. [10]
The physician and Susannah, who was still in full possession of her senses, wished and insisted that Katharina should withdraw to the gardener's house, but she refused with defiant obstinacy, saying she would rather die with her mother than leave her. [10]
Dr. Dobb as strongly insisted that the wound in the abdomen caused death. [5]
This has been strongly insisted on by Meckel and Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire. [1]
In the United States, under totally different conditions, and under an economic theory that, whatever its defects on paper, has nevertheless insisted more upon the worth of the individual man, we have had, all the same, a distinctly material development. [4]
Our Virginia friends, solicitous for our safety in this wild country, had urged us not to venture into it without arms--take at least, they insisted, a revolver each. [4]
She did not show the least embarrassment, and asked me if the band insisted on playing every day. [11]
He shrugged his shoulders at that, he insisted that his lawyer should not reply to the foolish and insulting suggestion. [11]
Sellers insisted it should be a University. [5]
Miriam replied that she, too, would be ready to do so if her husband approved and he himself insisted upon it; for the name was only a garment. [10]
On the way she pressed him to explain to her why he had insisted on her making this declaration, but he put her off till the morrow. [10]
Inside this line she frankly insisted on latitude, and Tynemouth gave it to her without thought or anxiety. [11]
The furtive glance she cast first at the side-room and then at Nemesianus did not pass unobserved by the quick eye of the commander, and with soldierly firmness he insisted on knowing what was concealed behind that door. [10]
She insisted on sending for Jacques. [11]
They insisted on sending a telegram to the Emperor, and also a courier overland to announce our coming. [5]
He insisted on seeing every secret door, and ran first down and then up the hidden stairs by which Melissa had in fact escaped. [10]
When, on the second day, she heard that old Ursula had been there to ask about her for Wolf, who was now convalescing, she passionately insisted upon seeing her, but, obedient to the physician's orders, Frau Lerch would not admit her. [10]
I can only say again that I am placed improperly--altogether improperly, in spite of all I can say--when it is insisted that I entertain any other view or purposes in regard to that matter. [7]
We insisted on salt, and at length got the rock variety, which we pounded on the rocks. [4]
Our landlady's daughter said, the other evening, that she was going to "retire"; whereupon the young fellow called John took up a lamp and insisted on lighting her to the foot of the staircase. [6]
He had repeatedly said, that as long as there was life there was strength of will to do what it chose; and when the last agony came on, he insisted on assuming the position just mentioned. [14]
If Dick had said he wanted to go and her father had seconded his wishes, she would have insisted on staying at home. [6]
He was so rich that the gifts of the visitors to the temple, which his predecessors had insisted on, were of no importance to him. [10]
He had also remembered the love of better days, and when Barbara insisted upon learning what he had said of her, Wolf, who had heard it from Don Luis, did not withhold it. [10]
This lady, a remarkable woman in every respect, who gave me many tokens of maternal affection, insisted on the right to warn me. [10]
I do not question that the work of restoration was well done, but my eyes insisted on finding a fault in some of its lines which was probably in their own refracting media. [6]
Truthfulness is a quality that needs to be as strongly insisted on in literature as simplicity. [4]
I asked the proprietor if we could not get at a fire; but he insisted that the room was warm, that it was heated with a furnace, and that he burned good stove-coal, and pointed to a register high up in the wall. [4]
She sang her praises, insisted that her son must call on her, expressed a wish to see her often, but yet always became ill-humored when she began to talk about her. [2]
At one uncommonly pokerish place, where the wet rock sloped into a bog, the rider of Jack thought it prudent to dismount, but Big Tom insisted that Jack would "make it" all right, only give him his head. [4]
He had entered Pharaoh's palace expecting to be imprisoned or delivered over to the executioner, as soon as he insisted upon following his people, and how speedily the bonds that held him in the Egyptian army had been sundered. [10]
But when other people at last declared that it must have been Dolores, M. Fille insisted on telegrams being sent by the magistrate at Vilray without Jean Jacques' consent. [11]
But her stern parents had promised her hand to another, a famous warrior, and insisted on her wedding him. [5]
Everywhere indeed, in our industrial age,--in a society inclined to materialism, scholarship, pure and simple scholarship for its own sake, no less in Ohio than in Tennessee, is the thing to be insisted on. [4]
This suited Wolf, only he insisted upon having his own way about the articles he had brought, and took them upstairs with him. [10]
If Bennigsen insisted on the position being defended and others still discussed it, the question was no longer important in itself but only as a pretext for disputes and intrigue. [2]
Hungerford had insisted on relieving me for a couple of hours at midnight. [11]
Philip had insisted on re-conveying the Ilium property to Mr. Bolton, retaining only the share originally contemplated for himself, and Mr. Bolton, therefore, once more found himself engaged in business and a person of some consequence in Third street. [5]
He then insisted on putting me into the room of one of the American gentlemen and then he knocked at the door of a lady, who cried out in indignation at being disturbed; and, finally, I found my room. [4]

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