Example Sentences

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"I now remember that for a year past you have been importuning me about this!"

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel

He, 'Sitting Bull,' replied: 'Yes, the crops need rain, and my people have been importuning me to have it rain.

From My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young by Cox, James