importuner

But a certain man named Nessan, who beheld how the just man's spirit was vexed, offered unto him a ram, which the saint bade him give to the bold importuner.

The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

"What'll you gimme on this?" came with directness from the small importuner.

Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates

Je ne crains pas de vous importuner en vous parlant ainsi de ce qui me touche si profondément: je sais la part que vous prenez à tout ce qui est douleur et confiance en Dieu, par Jésus Christ.

Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 1854

Corrupt behaviour in politics and public life may take many forms, whether it is the Tanzanian policeman ‘fining’ motorists for traffic ‘offences’ at the roadblock on the main Arusha-Nairobi road of a morning or the Labour Party trousering £250,000 from some tycoon who has never before shown an enthusiasm for Socialism but suddenly finds himself wearing the ermine or the political lobbyist flogging half-an-hour of a Minister’s time to an importuner.

A Corrosion Of Trust 2007

Corrupt behaviour in politics and public life may take many forms, whether it is the Tanzanian policeman ‘fining’ motorists for traffic ‘offences’ at the roadblock on the main Arusha-Nairobi road of a morning or the Labour Party trousering £250,000 from some tycoon who has never before shown an enthusiasm for Socialism but suddenly finds himself wearing the ermine or the political lobbyist flogging half-an-hour of a Minister’s time to an importuner.

Archive 2007-09-23 2007