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Sentences ending with insisted

The Bishop still insisted. [5]
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]

Sentences with the word insisted in them

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]
The next morning, when the market was crowded, the officer might commence his negotiations afresh, if the Regent insisted on his plan. [10]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
We should like to believe, but, as George says, all our education contradicts the doctrines that are most insisted upon. [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]
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]
I insisted on the dresses being made quite plainly. [14]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Dr. Dobb as strongly insisted that the wound in the abdomen caused death. [5]
John insisted on stopping awhile. [5]
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]
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]
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]
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]
We insisted on salt, and at length got the rock variety, which we pounded on the rocks. [4]
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]
But her stern parents had promised her hand to another, a famous warrior, and insisted on her wedding him. [5]
He also introduced other resolutions, passed at other meetings, and by combining the whole, although they were all antecedent to the two State Conventions and the one National Convention I have mentioned, still he insisted, and now insists, as I understand, that I am in some way responsible for them. [7]
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]
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]
He insisted now on her pinning the roses on the tweed coat, and she humoured him. [9]
The Frenchman insisted on having the pieces returned that were left over and asked Pierre to translate what he said. [2]
If he insisted on debts being paid, he was never exacting or cruel. [11]
Her father insisted on breakfasting here; and she found him now seated before the white table-cloth, reading a newspaper. [9]
Many critics insisted on believing, that all the fictions published as by three Bells were the works of one author, but written at different periods of his development and maturity. [14]
She had insisted on being allowed to help at the operation, and the Young Doctor, who had a good knowledge of life and knew the stuff in her, consented; and so far as the operation was concerned she justified his faith in her. [11]
When he spoke of the execution he wanted to pass over the horrible details, but Natasha insisted that he should not omit anything. [2]
Haschim, however, had observed the countryman, and insisted on his being shown in first. [10]
It is a note of our general intellectual development that cheapness in literature is almost as much insisted on by the rich as by the poor. [4]
But he would not see the joke; he got graver and more earnest, and insisted, saying that our fate, his and mine, hung on that hour, and that not a soul must overhear what he had to say. [10]
Henderson himself had not much time for the frivolities of the season, and he evaded all but the more conspicuous social occasions, at which Carmen, sometimes with a little temper, insisted that he should accompany her. [4]
Parliament wavered, Lord North wavered, all the ministers wavered, but the king had the insanity of one idea; he was immovable, he insisted on the impossible, so the army was sent, America was instantly united, and the Nation born. [6]
They drew my mother into the house, took off her wraps, set her down in the most comfortable rocker, and insisted on making her a cup of tea. [9]
The point of meeting designated in the above note would not, in my opinion, be insisted upon. [7]
Since his improvement Maurice insisted upon his leaving his chamber and getting out of the house, so as to breathe the fresh air of which he was in so much need. [6]
He insisted on marrying her and wrecking his life, and when I got her out of the way, as any father would have done, he left me. [9]
Sunday came, and Luigi insisted on having his challenge conveyed. [5]
Of course the lord mayor called upon him for a speech, but Commander Sims insisted that a bluejacket should make the address. [9]
Seeing that I looked incredulous, he insisted that I should test it. [4]
He was no longer hungry, but Senora Petra insisted upon his seating himself near her couch and eating a capon, while he told his story. [10]
I hesitated so long about furnishing your house, my dear, but Howard insisted, and said he wished to surprise you. [9]
She insisted on leaving her horse there instead of putting him in the stable. [9]
Readers of Charles Lamb remember that Sarah Battle insisted on a clean-swept hearth before sitting down to her favorite game of whist. [6]
Whenever Xanthe used it, she insisted upon having her own way, and did what she pleased, while Semestre, who usually never admitted that her hearing was no longer so keen as in former clays, in such cases willingly pleaded her deafness, in order to avoid a retreat. [10]
The case, however, is widely different, as Mr. Wallace has with justice insisted, in relation to the intellectual and moral faculties of man. [1]
Conductor Slum, who is too old a bird to be caught with chaff, courteously informed her that the car was full, and when she insisted on remaining, he persuaded her to go into the car where she belonged. [5]
Finally, a scientific investigation of each succeeding problem in government is insisted upon, and a much more rapid dissemination among the people of the science that exists. [9]
But when Papias interrupted him again and again, and obstinately insisted on the immediate restoration of his property, the artist whose blood was easily heated, grew angry and replied to the attacks and questions of the older man with vehement response. [10]
But my mother insisted, and persisted; and finally gained her point. [5]
But Artemus gently insisted, and I drank the treasonable mixture under protest, and felt all the time that I was doing a thing I might be sorry for. [5]
If, nevertheless, he insisted upon winning her, he must take her as she was, though the handsome young man would have had a good right to a heart full of love. [10]
Ledscha had not insisted upon the fulfilment of her desire, but as the boat passed the Pelican Island her gaze rested on the lustreless waning disk of the moon. [10]
I asserted myself; insisted upon my rights, and finally the Pullman Conductor and the train conductor capitulated, and I was left in possession. [5]
Countess Cordula had insisted upon attending the consecration, but she had not known who cared for its adornment. [10]
The queen, however, insisted that it was all owing to her troops being led on by so valiant a commander. [4]
My conscience had insisted that I should sail with John Paul; that I might never see my deaf grandfather on earth again. [9]
But Mrs. Kame insisted that Honora should cut in, and the others supported her. [9]
But the doctor insisted that he must have a nurse to help him in his task, which was likely to be long and exhausting. [6]
Now it is insisted that Congress, and not the executive, is vested with this power. [7]
Thereupon the bookmaker insisted on the aide-de-camp accepting the cigar-case, and gave him his visiting-card. [11]
After that I insisted on her going with me wherever I went, but she had changed, and I saw that, in spite of herself, the thing grew. [11]
He had rigidly insisted on gun practice; he had keyed up the marines to a better spirit, and churlishness had been promptly punished. [11]
My father then insisted on a delay of a year and now already six months, half of that period, have passed, and my resolution is firmer than ever. [2]
Other critics still insisted it was social ridicule: but if this were so, the satire was too delicate for ordinary detection. [9]
However, as I insisted in all soberness, and offered to lead them to the bear, a party of forty or fifty people at last started off with me to bring the bear in. [4]
He also gave in to this; but he insisted on returning here to wait for her. [10]
Whether the literary impulse which was born in him would have ever insisted upon any but an occasional and fitful expression, except for the necessities of his subsequent condition, is doubtful. [4]
There is an impassive, stolid brutality about the woods that has never been enough insisted on. [4]
In a flash I understood why the duke had insisted upon Hyde Park, and that nerved me some. [9]
I insisted that I had a right then to renew that charge of conspiracy. [7]
As for me, I enjoyed the supper which our host had insisted upon our partaking, drank his wine, and paid him very little attention. [9]
Of this much I am sure, that the Church as a whole has been engaged in a senseless conflict with science and progressive thought, that she has insisted upon the acceptance of facts which are in violation of reason and which have nothing to do with religion. [9]
He insisted that Hyde Park should be the place of the contest. [9]
Before the half hour is up, there is not one of the party who does not claim to have been the person who insisted upon going forward. [4]
Having now carried his point and insisted on it, he left off. [12]
Mr. Buchanan and his friends have not done it; they, too, as well as the Republicans and the Anti-Lecompton Democrats, have not done it; but on the contrary, they together have insisted on the right of the people to form a constitution for themselves. [7]
Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly discipline and zeal in the service. [2]
She had believed her husband never would come back; and early in the morning, in spite of all that Mrs. Breitmann could do, had insisted at intervals upon running downstairs and scanning the street. [9]
The physician understood her grief; he readily promised not to betray her to any one, and did not blame her, though he again pointed out the danger she had incurred and earnestly insisted that every article of clothing, which she or Heliodora had worn, must be destroyed. [10]
Peter who, despite her efforts to teach him distinction in dress, insisted upon wearing the same kind of clothes. [9]
They insisted on her coming with me. [2]
He insisted that he was quite selfish in this; in their concessions their quarrel vanished; they agreed that whatever happened would be for the best; and the next day he went to his office fortified for any event. [8]
She insisted that he was a bad man, and that in the duel with Bezukhov, Pierre was right and Dolokhov wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. [2]
With stern decision he therefore insisted upon demanding the entire sum in her possession. [10]
I insisted, but he stared at me inscrutably, and said that he had no record of the man. [11]
And why had he insisted, before showing it to her, upon waiting until afternoon? [9]
Men in whom he had the utmost confidence insisted that he follow up the lecture idea and engage the largest house in the city for his purpose. [5]
Another answered, and he called again, but louder than before; then another spoke and then another; and each time the first, aggravated by contradiction, insisted on his case more strongly. [12]
He insisted upon having everything explained to him, and the reason for having it, and not something else in its place; and he treated Fulkerson and Frescobaldi as if they were in league to impose upon him. [8]
If she had had sense, she would have insisted on removing Orlando to Slow Down Ranch at the earliest possible moment, even at some risk to his physical well-being. [11]
After the grammateus had retired, Daphne insisted upon leaving Tennis the next day. [10]
She insisted on going back to the palace, so, as she would fly to the fire like a gnat, and I would not have her risk being burnt, I tied her up fast. [10]
Clemens demurred, but Fuller insisted, and engaged Cooper Union for the occasion. [5]
The third day following the funeral, Jacques insisted that he would go and see her. [11]
This was the experiment which the enterprising publishers ventured upon, and I, who felt myself outside of the charmed circle drawn around the scholars and poets of Cambridge and Concord, having given myself to other studies and duties, wondered somewhat when Mr. Lowell insisted upon my becoming a contributor. [6]
Ambulinia insisted upon Elfonzo to be seated, and give her a history of his unnecessary absence; assuring him the family had retired, consequently they would ever remain ignorant of his visit. [5]
Besides, his old deaf wife, who usually submitted quietly when her defective hearing prevented her comprehension of many things, insisted upon knowing what was occurring. [10]
Up to the day she insisted upon supplying his body linen. [10]
Still no one could complain that the king was ever guilty of injustice; indeed he insisted more eagerly now than before on the rigid execution of the law; and wherever he detected an abuse his punishments were cruel and inexorable. [10]
But, if Mr. Cooke insisted, he would enjoy seeing that part of the lake and the Canadian side. [9]
This last Mr. Cooke had insisted upon. [9]
Yet she was considerate of Madame Marie, and more than once insisted on Havel lying down for a couple of hours, and herself made him a strengthening bowl of soup at the kitchen fire of the inn. [11]
So presently he ceased work for a while and insisted that Frau Vorkel should take the phial in her own hand and inhale its contents once more, because it pleased him to try the power of the elixir. [10]
Navarrete and the captain strove to dissuade the sick man, but the latter suddenly felt cured of his fever, and with flashing eyes insisted on having his own way. [10]
He was rather brusque, and took the same position which the conductor had taken in the beginning; but he failed to move the soft-spoken artilleryman, who still insisted that he must have his car. [5]
He insisted on bringing out the good qualities of his comrade; but he gave him much strong advice privately. [11]
He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as Gentleman of the Bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to Petersburg and staying at his house. [2]
And it might as well be said here, for it will have to be insisted on later, that the traveler, who has read about the illicit stills till his imagination dwells upon the indulgence of his vitiated tastes in the mountains of North Carolina, is doomed to disappointment. [4]
I have insisted, and still insist, that this cannot be true. [7]
Stafford understood Jasmine, and Stafford had insisted that he be not deceived by some revolt on the part of Jasmine, which would be the outcome of her own humiliation, of her own anger with herself for all the trouble she had caused. [11]
Stuck to it, and insisted upon a trial. [5]
Though my mother, and even my grandmother, urged her to go, she insisted that she belonged to the twins, and that some evil would befall the little ones if she left them. [10]
And with this aim, in one of her talks with her Father Confessor, she insisted on an answer to the question, in how far was she bound by her marriage? [2]
To-day he had a walk with Ralph, and insisted on going into a club here, to which they both belong. [9]

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