All 7 Uses of
insistent
in
Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
- The hard insistent thing in Jesse Bentley that had kept the people in the house silent and timid and that had never been dispelled by the presence of the girl Louise was apparently swept away by the coming of the boy.†
Chpt 7insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
- In the woods an intense silence seemed to lie over everything and suddenly out of the silence came the old man's harsh and insistent voice.†
Chpt 7 *
- After a year or two, if the impulse within them became strong and insistent enough, they married.†
Chpt 7
- On the Friday evening before, as she was being driven back to the farm for the week-end by one of the hired men, she had on an impulse done a thing that had startled her, and as John Hardy stood in the darkness below and called her name softly and insistently, she walked about in her room and wondered what new impulse had led her to commit so ridiculous an act.†
Chpt 7insistently = in a persistent or firm manner
- She did not think that her station in life would permit her to be seen in the company of the bartender and walked about under the trees with George Willard and let him kiss her to relieve a longing that was very insistent in her nature.†
Chpt 16insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
- Before the boy Elmer was bold, insistent.†
Chpt 17
- When George Willard was insistent he put out his hand, laying it on the older boy's arm, and tried to explain.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something