All 3 Uses of
insistent
in
The Mill on the Floss
- But if he had really shown her any testamentary tenderness, it would be affecting to think of him, poor man, when he was gone; and even his foolish fuss about the flowers and garden-stuff, and his insistence on the subject of snails, would be touching when it was once fairly at an end.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- There had been singing under the windows after midnight,—supernatural singing, Maggie always felt, in spite of Tom's contemptuous insistence that the singers were old Patch, the parish clerk, and the rest of the church choir; she trembled with awe when their carolling broke in upon her dreams, and the image of men in fustian clothes was always thrust away by the vision of angels resting on the parted cloud.†
Chpt 2.2
- "The pledge can't be fulfilled," he said, with impetuous insistence.†
Chpt 6.11
Definition:
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(insistent) persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something