But here another difficulty occurred, which was no other than the landlady's insisting on his paying for the pot he had rendered useless.
If parents will take the trouble to make an impartial criticism of their daughter's riding, they can aid her by insisting upon her doing as she ought, which is beyond the authority of the riding-master.
Still, he might have gone, insisting that she should tell him what she meant by such a letter, but he had arranged a hurried journey to England.
Roger," she exclaimed, "I thank you a thousand, thousand times for insistingthat I should come here.
They greeted Early Ann with reserved enthusiasm, insisting she must join the Epworth League, and Standard Bearers.
And now, to increase Stud's worries, Early Ann was insistingon a two weeks' trip to Chicago.
Albert had rebutted the charge with virtuous warmth, insisting on the skill involved in word-choosing, and insisting also on the historical freedom of the institutions of his country.
They could not credit, and Edwin maliciously did not tell them, that no matter what they did he was incapable of insisting on such rights.
Instantly the dog sprang out and began to superintend the preparations for departure, rushing to and fro and insisting all the time that delay would be monstrous, if not fatal.
The early critics allowed extreme license in the choice and treatment of material, while insisting on strict regularity of expression.
His brow contracted, and for an instant he seemed on the point of insisting upon taking care of her first.
He seemed to be insisting that the whole story of the victory was untrue, and that despatches had been received announcing heavy disasters.
At last things came to such a pass that Madame de Praslin appealed to her father, insisting on a legal separation from her husband.
The prisoner's counsel warmly opposed this motion, insisting upon their proving it to be his hand writing before it could be used against him; and no further stress was laid on this evidence.
From thence he transmitted a memorial, with a letter from the czar to the queen, insisting upon her punishing with death all the persons concerned in violating the law of nations upon the person of his ambassador.
Divers messages passed between the two houses,--the commons stillinsisting upon a committee to settle preliminaries; at length the dispute was brought to a free conference.
Castlereagh might, perhaps, try as Premier; but surely you would not think those encouraging auspices to start under, insisting as you must do absolutely on the dismissal of the Doctor and his whole train.
The physicians consulted agreed in insisting on her passing the winter in a southern climate; and after their wedding, which took place in Florence, they thus came to Sorrento.
The winner seemed still to be insistingon payment.
The nobles, still insisting on their privilege of exemption from taxation, continued to be excluded from the Cortes, and rapidly lost all political influence.
Men who began by insisting that all the world should not differ from their opinions, ended by not agreeing with themselves.
I ever declared against insisting on a relation of experience, in this sense (viz.
You are both 'rael bonnie,' and ought to be very grateful to me for insisting on full dress.
They met under the arch of the gate, and Carmichael returned with the Carnegies, Kate making much of him and insisting that he should stay to luncheon.
And thus he makes reconciliation for iniquity; for reconciliation may be made for iniquity two ways: first, by paying of a price; secondly, by insisting upon the price paid for the offender by way of intercession.
As a matter of fact, she tried to send her daughter away, but Lee refuses to go, insisting that it is her duty to remain.
Yes, there are those who deny that there is any inheritance of the spirit, of character, insisting that the laws of transmission affect the body only.
Roman Catholic accounts of Des Adrets's cruelties and perfidy as very much exaggerated, and in insisting upon the circumstance that the barbarity practised at Orange had furnished him not only the example, but the incentive.
She showed signs of so far yielding to the inveterate enemies of the Huguenots as to abstain from insisting upon the concession of public religious worship where it had been accorded by the Edict of St. Germain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insisting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
