imperiously

• “Therefore, 'Hey! boy,' she called imperiously, 'come and help me! quick!”

  A Book of Quaker Saints

• “Who is it?" he called imperiously, and took a half dozen rapid strides toward the foot of the staircase.”

  The Circular Staircase

• “Don't you drive over them wickets!" she called imperiously, when Eben came up from the lot in his dingle cart.”

  Tiverton Tales

• “For no sooner had the ghost, armed with the stone club, stepped down to the sea-shore than he called imperiously for the ferry-boat.”

  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

• “Grandmother called imperiously, but there was no answer.”

  Master of the Vineyard

• “His wife shouted out his name imperiously from the dark passage, "Fritz!”

  The Chink in the Armour

• “She's penniless, "and he called imperiously for a magnum of champagne, whereupon the bartender suggested we go elsewhere.”

  The New York Review of Books

• “You!' the Italian called imperiously to a youth pressing forward to hear the conversation.”

  Mexico

• “The crisp air whispered warnings of frosts still to come, but braced the nerve and gladdened the heart nevertheless, and called imperiously to youth to seek its kingdom.”

  Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker

• “At last the door opened, and the German called imperiously to Conrad to return.”

  Secret Adversary

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