All 9 Uses of
insistent
in
White Fang
- These were always males, and they were pressingly insistent on joining with One Eye and his mate.†
Part 2
- In his insistent crawling toward the light, he discovered in her a nose that with a sharp nudge administered rebuke, and later, a paw, that crushed him down and rolled him over and over with swift, calculating stroke.†
Part 2
- For he knew that there, floating in the blue above him, was meat, the meat his stomach yearned after so insistently.†
Part 2
- Excited by the daylong pursuit of him, swayed subconsciously by the insistent iteration on their brains of the sight of him fleeing away, mastered by the feeling of mastery enjoyed all day, the dogs could not bring themselves to give way to him.†
Part 4
- Later on, when the overtures became more insistent, White Fang bristled and bared his teeth and backed away.†
Part 4
- For days his manifestations of desire to lay hands on him had been growing more insistent, and during that time White Fang had been compelled to avoid the camp.†
Part 4
- He did not know what evil was threatened by those insistent hands.†
Part 4
- White Fang growled and growled with insistent warning.
Part 4 *insistent = firm
- The streets were crowded with perils—waggons, carts, automobiles; great, straining horses pulling huge trucks; and monstrous cable and electric cars hooting and clanging through the midst, screeching their insistent menace after the manner of the lynxes he had known in the northern woods.†
Part 5
Definition:
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(insistent) persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something