Example Sentences

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

From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

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.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James