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1. The term for which Edmond had engaged to serve on board The Young Amelia having expired, Dantes took leave of the captain, who at first tried all his powers of persuasion to induce him to remain as one of the crew, but having been told the history of the legacy, he ceased to importune him further
2. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D——? Did he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he wished to remain evil, he must become a monster?
3. She seemed to be tired of my questions: and, indeed, what claim had I to importune her? A neighbour or two came in; my chair was evidently wanted
4. I was very curious to know what I had said or done to cause her so much perturbation a moment before and so I continued to importune her to enlighten me
1. They had been importuned to believe that the end of their world was at hand
2. importuned to believe that the end of their world was at hand
3. She refused to be comforted and importuned her father to leave Nazareth until he finally consented to move to Sepphoris
4. Their miracle expectancy was aroused to such a high pitch they thought Jesus could cure any human disease, and why could not such a healer even raise the dead? Jesus, while being thus importuned, stepped forward and, raising the covering of the bier, examined the boy
5. importuned, to give her in marriage not only by those of our town but of those many leagues round, and by the persons of highest quality in them
6. My lord, he hath importuned me with love
7. entreated, he promised, he flattered, he importuned, he pretended with so much feeling and apparent sincerity, that he overthrew the virtuous resolves of Camilla and won the triumph he least expected and most longed for
8. She wouldn't understand the hint, but followed me to a sideboard, where I went to lay my bonnet, and importuned me in a whisper to give her directly what I had brought
9. She wouldn’t understand the hint, but followed me to a sideboard, where I went to lay my bonnet, and importuned me
1. This relatively civilized introduction to importuning went on for a few minutes more until interrupted by the approach of two railway policemen
2. relatively civilized introduction to importuning went on for a few
3. calmer, she could not utter; and Jemima, without importuning her by idle
4. At length she gave in from sheer loathing of the continued and hateful importuning