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  • If not, Diana could choose to use one of her peremptory strikes.†   (source)
  • Their arrival outside the wood caused something of a sensation, which Hazel cut short with a peremptory sharpness quite unlike his usual manner.†   (source)
  • The reporter's voice went back to a peremptory tone.†   (source)
  • He was disappointed as he heard the peremptory crunch of Corporal Whitcomb's footsteps recede into silence.†   (source)
  • Judge Atlee pressed on, "Each side has four peremptory challenges.†   (source)
  • "Ah!" said Seivarden, sharp and peremptory.†   (source)
  • The voice Deo heard over the line lacked the authoritative, peremptory tone that had always been part of the memory he'd carried of his father.†   (source)
  • Dr. Stadler asked in the courteously peremptory tone of an order.†   (source)
  • "And I strongly suggest that you rule in my favor," Jim said peremptorily.†   (source)
  • The words of this article are peremptory.†   (source)
  • Prof thought we ought to send out a gentle warning not to eliminate so peremptorily.†   (source)
  • Catherine was not the sort of person to issue peremptory commands.†   (source)
  • I obeyed this peremptory order with hardly more than a twitch of subdued rebelliousness, for if I had learned anything during my years at the university it was that the scientific hierarchy requires a high standard of obedience, if not subservience, from its acolytes.†   (source)
  • He strode with the letter to the attic door, threw it open, and vanishing momentarily from Sophie's sight, called down to the landing where his aide, Untersturmfuhrer Scheffler, waited for such peremptorily shouted commands.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: Well you see— POZZO: (peremptory).†   (source)
  • In the dark and empty hall, by itself, the telephone was shrilling fiercely, forlorn as an abandoned baby and even more peremptory to be quieted.†   (source)
  • BERENGER peremptorily switches it off But in the distance other trumpetings, like echoes, can be heard.†   (source)
  • After she was in bed and her own light out, there was a peremptory pounding on the porch floor.†   (source)
  • "Turner!" he said, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • The chaplain's summer-tan shirt was soaking with perspiration by the time he arrived there and rushed breathlessly back inside the orderly room tent, where he was halted peremptorily by the same treacherous, soft-spoken staff sergeant with round eyeglasses and gaunt cheeks, who requested him to remain outside because Major Major was inside and told him he would not be allowed inside until Major Major went out.†   (source)
  • 'So were yours three years ago,' broke in the analyst sharply, breathlessly, peremptorily cutting off the once-errant doctor.†   (source)
  • She was the Chinese image of the uppermiddleclass, serious, no-nonsense tourist —probably a widow — who peremptorily issued instructions, counted her money, and never went anywhere without a guidebook which she continuously checked off against each site on her well-organized itinerary.†   (source)
  • The doorbell rang again with a peremptory jab.†   (source)
  • The operators in Hong Kong — with justification — were among the most peremptory in the world.†   (source)
  • Only this time silence reigned where there had once been the peremptory "yes, ma'ams."†   (source)
  • Tonight, she added, trying to make her request seem less peremptory.†   (source)
  • She cast an eye shrewdly on him as she said this last, and when he didn't reply she tapped the spoon against the rim of the bowl in peremptory fashion.†   (source)
  • His name was Diego Samaritano, he wore a white linen uniform that was absolutely correct, from the tips of his boots to his cap with the R.C.C. insignia embroidered in gold thread, and he possessed, in common with other river captains, the stoutness of a ceiba tree, a peremptory voice, and the manners of a Florentine cardinal.†   (source)
  • Pearson used his peremptory strikes to exclude all but one of the handful of African Americans who had been summoned to serve on the jury.†   (source)
  • Death row prisoner Jesse Morrison told Walter that his prosecutor in Barbour County had used twenty-one out of twenty-two peremptory strikes to exclude all the black people in the jury pool.†   (source)
  • Then, in 1986, the Supreme Court ruled in Batson v. Kentucky that prosecutors could be challenged more directly about using peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner, giving hope to black defendants—and forcing prosecutors to find more creative ways to exclude black jurors.†   (source)
  • In the mid-1960s, the Court held that using peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner was unconstitutional, but the justices created an evidentiary standard for proving racial bias that was so high that no one had successfully challenged peremptory strikes in twenty years.†   (source)
  • She had even began to lose the illusion of being a queen when two peremptory raps of the knocker sounded at the door and she opened it to a well-groomed military officer with ceremonious manners who had a scar on his cheek and a gold medal on his chest.†   (source)
  • Then another voice sounded through the darkness, a controlled, peremptory voice that could have come from either a man or a woman.†   (source)
  • The impatient tone, the peremptory movement with which she sat down were a confession of weakness: by the rules of their unwritten language, one did not assume a demanding manner unless one were seeking a favor and had no value-no threat-to barter.†   (source)
  • 'Hey!' called a muted, peremptory voice from the leafless shrubs growing beside his tent in a waist-high clump after Appleby had gone.†   (source)
  • His voice was stern and peremptory.†   (source)
  • The chaplain walked toward the exit gingerly, expecting at any instant to be ordered back by a peremptory voice or halted in his tracks by a heavy blow on the shoulder or the head.†   (source)
  • Each time the fall of a city like Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major — de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.†   (source)
  • I then explained very quickly why I had come to waste his priceless time, that Mrs. Brown refused to authorize the trip, that the trip was being paid-for by private resources, that the children would benefit from this trip a hundredfold, and that God and man considered it peremptory that he grant his approval.†   (source)
  • However, something in that voice—something hurried, peremptory—told her that she would be seeing him almost instantly, and the last words he spoke to the Commandant—every nuance of tone and meaning—were implanted in her memory with archival finality, as if within the grooves of a phonograph record which can never be erased.†   (source)
  • So when Jim would clap his hands and ask for order and the dust cloud of children kicking a ball and each other would swirl past him oblivious to his command, and when he would clap his hands again, this time louder and more peremptory, and the great cloud would nearly trample him as it passed his spot again, I could only smile and thank God that I had taught awhile and knew where I stood in the great chain of being among the children of Yamacraw School.†   (source)
  • "Now," he said peremptorily, "step forward, please.†   (source)
  • The inspector then asked him peremptorily if he intended to "have another go at it."†   (source)
  • The consular porter spoke peremptorily; bolts were withdrawn and we entered a small courtyard with a well in its center and a vine trained overhead.†   (source)
  • Peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "Hush!" he said peremptorily, and instinctively once again looked towards the strangers.†   (source)
  • "Don't think that, dear," she cried, rather peremptorily.†   (source)
  • LADY BRITOMART [peremptorily] Sit down, all of you.†   (source)
  • "Sir, I want to be married at once," declared Kells, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "Why has this been sent to my house?" he asked peremptorily, holding up the volume.†   (source)
  • "Well, help me off—somebody," cried Bo, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • Be reasonable— CUSINS [peremptorily] Mr Undershaft: you have my terms.†   (source)
  • "Now, Miss Flirt, before you go down," he said peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "Suzanne, come with me at once—I wish it," said the Comtesse, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • As I started my motor Daisy peremptorily called: "Wait!†   (source)
  • "Hey! friend Brogard!" said the man peremptorily, "my lady friend would wish to rest here awhile.†   (source)
  • "You have a horse and cart too, then?" asked Chauvelin, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "It wasn't," said Tom, loudly and peremptorily.†   (source)
  • 'Hold your tongue, sir!' said Mr. Fang, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • Thomas Gradgrind, sir — peremptorily Thomas — Thomas Gradgrind.†   (source)
  • "Yes, yes; that's very well," said Wildeve peremptorily.†   (source)
  • He has forbidden the match peremptorily, Dobbin thought.†   (source)
  • "Well, then, I shall do it," he said, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "Speak to me," said Yeobright peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "You sit down, all of you," said Mr. Tulliver, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • Leave off," Ivan said peremptorily, sitting down again.†   (source)
  • "Come, madam, do you hear what I say?" he said, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "Well, put it me out," said Mrs. Glegg, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "Here, come to us, come here," said a voice, speaking not loudly, but firmly and peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "Kolya, if you say another word, I'll have nothing more to do with you," Alyosha cried peremptorily.†   (source)
  • His erect position in itself started to drive the webs of suspicion from the dog's mind; and when he spoke peremptorily, with the sound of whip-lashes in his voice, the dog rendered its customary allegiance and came to him.†   (source)
  • Then Amory went briskly to the bureau and, taking his pocket-book, beckoned peremptorily to the girl.†   (source)
  • HIGGINS [peremptorily] Sit down.†   (source)
  • "Eat, girl," called Jett, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • He exhausted his supply of fairy-stories and animal stories; and had begun to tell about the places and cities which he had visited when the eager-eyed children were peremptorily called within by Mother Mary.†   (source)
  • Then I reflected that I had myself peremptorily dismissed my officers from duty, and by my own act had prevented the anchor watch being formally set and things properly attended to.†   (source)
  • "Let go," Rosemary said peremptorily.†   (source)
  • I commanded peremptorily.†   (source)
  • So peremptorily did these shades beckon him, that each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him.†   (source)
  • Jude Fawley, with the self-conceit, effrontery, and aplomb of a strong-brained fellow in liquor, threw in his remarks somewhat peremptorily; and his aims having been what they were for so many years, everything the others said turned upon his tongue, by a sort of mechanical craze, to the subject of scholarship and study, the extent of his own learning being dwelt upon with an insistence that would have appeared pitiable to himself in his sane hours.†   (source)
  • "Never mind that!" here peremptorily broke in the superior, his face altering with anger, instinctively divining the ship that the other was about to name, one in which the Nore Mutiny had assumed a singularly tragical character that for a time jeopardized the life of its commander.†   (source)
  • Presently she went out and began drying herself; she called to the others more or less peremptorily, and at last only Philip was left in the water.†   (source)
  • Evidently satisfied that this dastardly outrage had remained unheard, he once more opened the door and pointed peremptorily down the passage.†   (source)
  • "The citoyen tells me," said Chauvelin peremptorily to him, "that you know something of my friend, the tall Englishman, whom I desire to meet ….†   (source)
  • "Ah, yes; I had forgotten about the Jew," said Chauvelin, and, turning towards the Jew, he called him peremptorily.†   (source)
  • Sir Andrew knocked again, this time more peremptorily: more oaths were heard, and then shuffling steps seemed to draw near the door.†   (source)
  • Overwrought nature had at last peremptorily asserted herself, and she lay there in a dead swoon: her eyes circled by deep purple lines, that told of long, sleepless nights, her hair matted and damp round her forehead, her lips parted in a sharp curve that spoke of physical pain.†   (source)
  • The exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card,—refused it peremptorily, with a glance.†   (source)
  • "Stay where you are, and attend to the horse!" said Troy, peremptorily throwing her the reins and the whip.†   (source)
  • "Bother!" said the man, peremptorily, turning to the girl; "you go right along, and curl yourself real smart!"†   (source)
  • He peremptorily denied for example, that any whale could so smite his stout sloop-of-war as to cause her to leak so much as a thimbleful.†   (source)
  • At high noon of the night in which she departed, beckoning me, peremptorily, to her side, she bade me repeat certain verses composed by herself not many days before.†   (source)
  • "What is all this?" demanded another voice peremptorily; and Mrs. Reed came along the corridor, her cap flying wide, her gown rustling stormily.†   (source)
  • "Wait a little, Varvara!" cried her father, speaking peremptorily but looking at her quite approvingly.†   (source)
  • The brother lingered on; Mr Nickleby's wife constantly urged him to avow their marriage; he peremptorily refused.†   (source)
  • After half a moment's pause: "And I should have been very much surprised had either of my daughters, on receiving a proposal of marriage at any time which might carry with it only half the eligibility of this, immediately and peremptorily, and without paying my opinion or my regard the compliment of any consultation, put a decided negative on it.†   (source)
  • When Emma afterwards heard that Jane Fairfax had been seen wandering about the meadows, at some distance from Highbury, on the afternoon of the very day on which she had, under the plea of being unequal to any exercise, so peremptorily refused to go out with her in the carriage, she could have no doubt—putting every thing together—that Jane was resolved to receive no kindness from her.†   (source)
  • …he was overcome by the wine just swallowed, was the idea which most readily presented itself; and, rather with a view to the preservation of my own character in the eyes of my associates, than from any less interested motive, I was about to insist, peremptorily, upon a discontinuance of the play, when some expressions at my elbow from among the company, and an ejaculation evincing utter despair on the part of Glendinning, gave me to understand that I had effected his total ruin under…†   (source)
  • If I ventured to cautiously hint that there was not another respectable family in England that would humble itself to hold out the hat—however, that is as far as I ever got; he always cut me short there, and peremptorily, too.†   (source)
  • 'No!' she replied, peremptorily.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, Jehan Frollo, elevating his curly blonde head above the crowd (he had mounted upon the shoulders of Robin Poussepain for the purpose), shouted: "Come and look, gentle ladies and men! they are going to peremptorily flagellate Master Quasimodo, the bellringer of my brother, monsieur the archdeacon of Josas, a knave of oriental architecture, who has a back like a dome, and legs like twisted columns!"†   (source)
  • He offered the post of commandant to Dr. Battius, who, however, peremptorily and somewhat haughtily declined the doubtful honour; exchanging looks of intelligence with Ellen, as he did so.†   (source)
  • Next day Davout rode out early and, after asking Balashev to come to him, peremptorily requested him to remain there, to move on with the baggage train should orders come for it to move, and to talk to no one except Monsieur de Castres.†   (source)
  • So like a choice casket is it secreted in him, that I have known some whalemen who peremptorily deny that the Sperm Whale has any other brain than that palpable semblance of one formed by the cubic-yards of his sperm magazine.†   (source)
  • …peculiarly wayward, rejecting her breakfast, complaining that the servants did not do what she told them; that the mistress would allow her to be nothing in the house, and Edgar neglected her; that she had caught a cold with the doors being left open, and we let the parlour fire go out on purpose to vex her, with a hundred yet more frivolous accusations, Mrs. Linton peremptorily insisted that she should get to bed; and, having scolded her heartily, threatened to send for the doctor.†   (source)
  • And when Becky proposed to go out without her husband, or received invitations for herself, he peremptorily ordered her to refuse them: and there was that in the gentleman's manner which enforced obedience.†   (source)
  • The contraband beast, however, assuring all present, with his significant finger, that he peremptorily declined to leave his post at the door, Signor Panco offered his services.†   (source)
  • The counting house clerk was just going to jump down, but on second thoughts he shouted peremptorily to the peasants instead, and beckoned to them to come up.†   (source)
  • He kept trying to say something to her; he began moving his tongue with difficulty and articulating indistinctly, but Katerina Ivanovna, understanding that he wanted to ask her forgiveness, called peremptorily to him: "Be silent!†   (source)
  • "Here, take the child!" said Pierre peremptorily and hurriedly to the woman, handing the little girl to her.†   (source)
  • The former masters of the land were peremptorily ordered about, seized, and imprisoned, and punished over and again, with scant courtesy from army officers.†   (source)
  • Hence when, instead of scribbling, like the Princess Ida,— "In such a hand as when a field of corn Bows all its ears before the roaring East," Elizabeth-Jane produced a line of chain-shot and sand-bags, he reddened in angry shame for her, and, peremptorily saying, "Never mind—I'll finish it," dismissed her there and then.†   (source)
  • For, though himself and boat's crew remained untainted, and though his ship was half a rifle-shot off, and an incorruptible sea and air rolling and flowing between; yet conscientiously adhering to the timid quarantine of the land, he peremptorily refused to come into direct contact with the Pequod.†   (source)
  • "Stop it!" he exclaimed peremptorily.†   (source)
  • "Go, go!" said Mr. Tulliver, peremptorily, beginning to feel rather uncomfortable at these free remarks on the personal appearance of a being powerful enough to create lawyers; "shut up the book, and let's hear no more o' such talk.†   (source)
  • Though so short a period ago—not a good lifetime—the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the present day not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; and though the cause of this wondrous extermination was the spear of man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious an end to the Leviathan.†   (source)
  • This was said too peremptorily.†   (source)
  • She murmured a little that Mr. Tulliver so peremptorily refused to receive anything in repayment from Mr. and Mrs. Moss; but to all his requirements of household economy she was submissive to the point of denying herself the cheapest indulgences of mere flavor; her only rebellion was to smuggle into the kitchen something that would make rather a better supper than usual for Tom.†   (source)
  • I want him to stay here with us," she said peremptorily, addressing the whole company, though her words were obviously meant for the man sitting on the sofa.†   (source)
  • He at first refus'd us peremptorily; but at dinner with his council, where there was great drinking of Madeira wine, as the custom of that place then was, he softened by degrees, and said he would lend us six.†   (source)
  • It clung to her with a tight insistence that seemed conscious, like the peremptory caress of a cat.†   (source)
  • Moran makes a peremptory sign to be quiet.†   (source)
  • "Now come and read," he was peremptory again.†   (source)
  • His peremptory tone lacked force as though he spoke out of custom, not conviction.†   (source)
  • "Jewel," Vernon says, not loud, but his voice going full and clear along the water, peremptory yet tactful.†   (source)
  • …three bells in the same steeple where descendants of the same pigeons strutted and crooned or wheeled in short courses resembling soft fluid paint-smears on the soft summer sky); —a Sunday morning in June with the bells ringing peaceful and peremptory and a little cacophonous—the denominations in concord though not in tune—and the ladies and children, and house negroes to carry the parasols and flywhisks, and even a few men (the ladies moving in hoops among the miniature broadcloth of…†   (source)
  • Scarlett submitted meekly to being carried toward the carriage and also to the peremptory manner in which Uncle Peter criticized her and Prissy.†   (source)
  • Out at the University, on the practice field, the toe of some long-legged, slug-footed, box-shouldered lad kept smacking the leather, over and over, and farther away scrimmage surged and heaved to the sound of shouts and peremptory whistles.†   (source)
  • "Boy," he called in peremptory fashion.†   (source)
  • A peremptory hand curved upward.†   (source)
  • "Stand by to receive your dog," was Scott's peremptory order to Cherokee's owner.†   (source)
  • An officer's peremptory tenor rang out and quickened the stiffened movement of the men.†   (source)
  • He is perhaps a little too peremptory, a little too jovial for my taste.†   (source)
  • His cultured gestures were all too peremptory—he liked Hans Castorp.†   (source)
  • He was growing a little impatient of Lawson's peremptory advice and wanted to be by himself.†   (source)
  • "Now," he was saying in a low and peremptory whisper, "where is the Pere Blanchard's hut?"†   (source)
  • "You must pay on the spot," said the Thenardier, in her curt and peremptory fashion.†   (source)
  • "Make haste with the ice!" the doctor's peremptory voice said from the bedroom.†   (source)
  • Now he was peremptory, stern, frowning and for once laying aside all mystification.†   (source)
  • "Stop a bit, sir," said Adam, in a hard peremptory voice, without turning round.†   (source)
  • But Fred did not go to Stone Court the next day, for reasons that were quite peremptory.†   (source)
  • "Nonsense!" said Caleb, with his most peremptory intonation.†   (source)
  • He was quite peremptory, both in look and voice.†   (source)
  • Levin jumped up, and with a peremptory whisper made her go out.†   (source)
  • "I shall not send them away," said Lydgate, the peremptoriness rising again.†   (source)
  • From this tower the clock struck eight, and thereupon a bell began to toll with a peremptory clang.†   (source)
  • Tom shook her off, and stopped again, saying in a peremptory tone, "Now, Maggie, you just listen.†   (source)
  • He understood perfectly that those peremptory shouts were merely "a flourish" to produce an effect.†   (source)
  • For suddenly the drum beat to quarters, which familiar sound happening at least twice every day, had upon the present occasion a signal peremptoriness in it.†   (source)
  • Finally Stapleton turned upon his heel and beckoned in a peremptory way to his sister, who, after an irresolute glance at Sir Henry, walked off by the side of her brother.†   (source)
  • Also, I thought it best to send a peremptory letter to old man Dorset that day, demanding the ransom and dictating how it should be paid.†   (source)
  • Her voice became a little peremptory, and instinctively she suppressed inattention and corrected slovenliness.†   (source)
  • Raoul de Chagny rose and, with a very authoritative air, pronounced these peremptory words: "Madame, you will have the goodness to tell me where that genius lives."†   (source)
  • Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.†   (source)
  • He then laid both hands on his neighbor's forearm, raised one forefinger with its lancelike nail, and, bathing in general approval, demanded they all pay particular attention to the splendid golden hue of the wine in their goblets, to the sugar sweated from the Malaga grapes, to a particular kind of salt and poppy-seed pretzel, which he termed "divine"—and then with one peremptory cultured gesture nipped in the bud any objection to so forceful a word.†   (source)
  • …is a woman of fifty or thereabouts, well dressed and yet careless of her dress, well bred and quite reckless of her breeding, well mannered and yet appallingly outspoken and indifferent to the opinion of her interlocutory, amiable and yet peremptory, arbitrary, and high-tempered to the last bearable degree, and withal a very typical managing matron of the upper class, treated as a naughty child until she grew into a scolding mother, and finally settling down with plenty of practical…†   (source)
  • Now the peremptory check given to Claggart in the matter of the arrested allusion was quickly followed up by this: "You say that there is at least one dangerous man aboard.†   (source)
  • Benevolence is often very peremptory.†   (source)
  • Fanny Price was a peremptory guide, she would not let him look at the things he wished, and attempted to force his admiration for all she admired.†   (source)
  • She had heard the peremptory question; she looked anxiously at the Jew, but could not read his face beneath the shadow of his broad-brimmed hat.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Jellyband was peremptory.†   (source)
  • But she had not time to conjecture, for presently there was a peremptory call at the door, and the next moment it was violently open from the outside, whilst a rough, commanding voice shouted,— "Hey!†   (source)
  • Then came the hope of salvation; the mysterious epistle, signed with the enigmatical scarlet device; the clear, peremptory directions; the parting from the Comte de Tournay, which had torn the poor wife's heart in two; the hope of reunion; the flight with her two children; the covered cart; that awful hag driving it, who looked like some horrible evil demon, with the ghastly trophy on her whip handle!†   (source)
  • She was, however, very happy, and now, as the mother of two peremptory little boys and the mistress of a wedge of brown stone violently driven into Fifty-third Street, seemed to exult in her condition as in a bold escape.†   (source)
  • The general scarcity of everything, occasioned candles to be borrowed in a rather peremptory manner of Monsieur Gabelle; and in a moment of reluctance and hesitation on that functionary's part, the mender of roads, once so submissive to authority, had remarked that carriages were good to make bonfires with, and that post-horses would roast.†   (source)
  • However much astonished I might be, I was sensible that I had no right to refuse compliance with such a peremptory command.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Stannidge thereupon said with a considerate peremptoriness that she and her mother had better take their own suppers if they meant to have any.†   (source)
  • But I find this law of one to one,[303] peremptory for conversation, which is the practice and consummation of friendship.†   (source)
  • "I can do so little—have I done it all well?" is the perpetually recurring thought; and there are no voices calling her away from that soliloquy, no peremptory demands to divert energy from vain regret or superfluous scruple.†   (source)
  • As the announcement was vague, though very peremptory, Little Dorrit returned, 'Let us talk about it.'†   (source)
  • His first care was given to the child, whose cries, indeed, as she lay writhing on the trundle-bed, made it of peremptory necessity to postpone all other business to the task of soothing her.†   (source)
  • As she progressed with her practice, she was surprised to see how steadily and surely the awe which had kept her tongue reverent and her manner humble toward her young master was transferring itself to her speech and manner toward the usurper, and how similarly handy she was becoming in transferring her motherly curtness of speech and peremptoriness of manner to the unlucky heir of the ancient house of Driscoll.†   (source)
  • *a A religion which should become more minute, more peremptory, and more surcharged with small observances at a time in which men are becoming more equal, would soon find itself reduced to a band of fanatical zealots in the midst of an infidel people.†   (source)
  • [This invitation she gives with a genial peremptoriness, his anxiety to please her clearly striking her as a sign of weakness of character on his part.†   (source)
  • I swear to thee by that which thou dost NOT believe, by the gospel which our church teaches, and by the keys which are given her to bind and to loose, that my purpose is deep and peremptory.†   (source)
  • 2 We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost.†   (source)
  • The first three remained constantly in a small waiting-room, ready to obey the summons of a small golden bell, or to receive the orders of the Romaic slave, who knew just enough French to be able to transmit her mistress's wishes to the three other waiting-women; the latter had received most peremptory instructions from Monte Cristo to treat Haidee with all the deference they would observe to a queen.†   (source)
  • The little thin-lipped, peremptory air with which she had addressed her father on the occasion of their former meeting had given place to the most lingering and caressing tones.†   (source)
  • Fagin looked as if he could have willingly excused himself from taking home a visitor at that unseasonable hour; and, indeed, muttered something about having no fire; but his companion repeating his request in a peremptory manner, he unlocked the door, and requested him to close it softly, while he got a light.†   (source)
  • The sound of the trumpets soon recalled those spectators who had already begun to leave the field; and proclamation was made that Prince John, suddenly called by high and peremptory public duties, held himself obliged to discontinue the entertainments of to-morrow's festival: Nevertheless, that, unwilling so many good yeoman should depart without a trial of skill, he was pleased to appoint them, before leaving the ground, presently to execute the competition of archery intended for the…†   (source)
  • "Well, lad, well," said Bartle, in a gentle tone, strangely in contrast with his usual peremptoriness and impatience of contradiction, "it's likely enough I talk foolishness.†   (source)
  • "Why didn't you answer my letter?" he then asked in a quick, full, slightly peremptory tone—the tone of a man whose questions were habitually pointed and who was capable of much insistence.†   (source)
  • Ralph not only issued this order in his most peremptory manner, but, under pretence of fetching some papers from the little office, saw it obeyed, and, when Newman had left the house, chained the door, to prevent the possibility of his returning secretly, by means of his latch-key.†   (source)
  • The abrupt advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory.†   (source)
  • No plan offered itself: the very exhibition of any desire to keep him would have rendered the claimant more peremptory: there was nothing left but to resign him.†   (source)
  • Of course, after such a peremptory order as this, Miss Sharp, the governess, received commands to dine with the illustrious company below stairs.†   (source)
  • Tea ready, I was going to approach the table; but she desired me to sit still, quite in her old peremptory tones.†   (source)
  • He hesitated and grew pale with anger, called the usher and gave him his card, with a few peremptory words, and slowly sat down.†   (source)
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