peremptoriness

• “He never exceeded in peremptoriness, nor in petting.”

  Chapter 1

• “Then the faithful Sam revived his suit with some peremptoriness.”

  Life's Little Ironies

• “She put her hand to my mouth — No peremptoriness, Clary”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “So, Clary, said my mother, I am returned in a temper accordingly: and I hope you will not again, by your peremptoriness, shew me how I ought to treat you.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Perhaps the peremptoriness of my words had offended him; it grieves me to think it possible.”

  A Changed Man

• “We live in a world which, with ever more peremptoriness, require an eye pure and precise, void of impurities as prejudices, partisanship or chauvinism, preconceived ideas and creeds or a priori — all beams that prevent us from seeing the manifolds truths of Life and Spirit.”

  Leonardo da Vinci, Nietzsche, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

• “She looked into the camera and, with the peremptoriness of royalty, said, And to you, Mrs. Dee, I have two words for you.”

  Melanie Marquez jokes

• “She wore Jim down, not merely with the peremptoriness of her appetites but simply with a force of personality that seemed to operate constantly.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Berrybender Narratives

• “There was a note of ill-humoured peremptoriness in the sound of his voice.”

  Bobok

• “Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business?”

  On Liberty

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