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- You yourself, in your law practice, are always insisting upon the sacredness of contract as the very basis of our civilization. [9]
- He places me wrong in spite of all I can tell him, though I repeat it again and again, insisting that I have no difference with him upon this subject. [7]
- What they said was lost to us, but I could distinguish the woman's voice, low-pitched and vibrant as though insisting upon a refusal, and the man's scarce adult tones, now high as though with balked passion, now shaken and imploring. [9]
- She thought it was delightful; she thought Beaton must be glad to be part of it, though he had represented himself so bored, so injured, by Fulkerson's insisting upon having him. [8]
- The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having his own way, gave an order. [2]
- They strictly obey the law which I have been insisting upon. [5]
- Joan lay on the grass, weak and suffering, hour after hour, but still insisting that the fight go on. [5]
- The steward explained that here was a gentleman who was insisting on having a chicken when it was dead against the rule and not in the bill. [5]
- I have done no such thing; and Judge Douglas, so persistently insisting that I have done so, has strongly impressed me with the belief of a predetermination on his part to misrepresent me. [7]
- But at that moment Berg came to Pierre and began insisting that he should take part in an argument between the general and the colonel on the affairs in Spain. [2]
- But he nursed Jeff Hyde through an attack of pneumonia, insisting at the same time that Gaspe Toujours should help him. [11]
- Dolgorukov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had only lit fires to deceive us. [2]
- He began by insisting that she should learn science, that she might assist him in his experiments. [11]
- The Bumpus flat included the second floor of a small wooden house whose owner had once been evilly inspired to paint it a livid clay-yellow--as though insisting that ugliness were an essential attribute of domesticity. [9]
- I was right in insisting that the decision of the conflict should be left to them. [10]
- Altomaris gives a horrid case; and Fincelius mentions one occurring as late as 1541, the subject of which was captured, still insisting that he was a wolf, only that the hair of his hide was turned in! [6]
- They would invite him to social parties, insisting that he should partake of the amusements that were going on. [5]
- Though waves of heat caused by some sudden recollection or impatient longing still ran through my body, a saner joy of anticipation was succeeding emotional tumult, and I reflected that Nancy had been right in insisting that we walk circumspectly in spite of passion. [9]
- On the one hand, his niece was imploring him to pardon her husband; on the other were the leaders, insisting that he stand to his plain duty as chief magistrate of the State, and place no further bar to Clayton's execution. [5]
- Half insisting and half coaxing him with promises, she dragged him along as far as the main street. [10]
- It was plain, from chance words which one caught now and then, that Cauchon and Loyseleur were insisting upon the application of the torture, and that most of the others were urgently objecting. [5]
- But Luigi was entirely out of patience, and begged for one exchange of shots, insisting that he had had no fair chance, on account of his brother's indelicate behavior. [5]
- Well, nothing would do but I must go Minister to St. James, the Governor and everybody insisting, you know, and so at last I consented--no getting out of it, had to do it, so here I came. [5]
- Bennigsen, who had chosen the position, warmly displayed his Russian patriotism (Kutuzov could not listen to this without wincing) by insisting that Moscow must be defended. [2]
- He heard those around him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be led along a certain carpet. [2]
- I don't want any harsh language indulged in, but I do not know how to deal with this persistent insisting on a story that I know to be utterly without truth. [7]
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