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persistent or continuing or firm — especially in maintaining a view or demanding something
- He could not deny this, but at the end of that time he became more insistent.109-110 — Chapters 109-110 (43% in)
- Leonard Upjohn came to him, while he was making himself a cup of tea in the kitchen, and said that Cronshaw was complaining of Philip's insistence that he should have a doctor.83-84 — Chapters 83-84 (87% in)
- The cry of youth was insistent, and he saw the beautiful thing before him only with his eyes.111-112 — Chapters 111-112 (**% in)
There are no more uses of "insistent" in Of Human Bondage.
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