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- adverb In an
insisting manner.
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Examples
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Or was he just elected in a landslide (following a previous Congressional landslide) in what is still insistingly being called a "center-right" nation?
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Phoenix-like it had risen in all its freshness, vigor and beauty and was now, through the voice of its triumphant exponents, insistingly calling to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, imploring Him to undertake a journey to its shores.
The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927
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From the time of the French Republic, France has gone along the same road, somewhat vainly and fitfully at first, but during the last half century, powerfully and insistingly.
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` ` And you love me now! '' he went on insistingly.
Within the Law 1913
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"Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you -- in your black dress, now," said Celia, insistingly.
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"Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you -- in your black dress, now," said Celia, insistingly.
Middlemarch 1871
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Her father did not let the occasion slip to speak insistingly as the world opined of Alvan and his baroness.
The Tragic Comedians — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Her father did not let the occasion slip to speak insistingly as the world opined of Alvan and his baroness.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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How we go, was the question among his problems: -- if we are to go! his youthful frame insistingly added.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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How we go, was the question among his problems: -- if we are to go! his youthful frame insistingly added.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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