Example Sentences

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"Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you—in your black dress, now," said Celia, insistingly.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

"And you love me now!" he went on insistingly.

From Within the Law by Veiller, Bayard

"Here!" she whispered insistingly, so that I felt the breath of it.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon

Surely you are the man," went on Henchard insistingly, "who arranged to come and see me?

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas