I woke Claire up with a long kiss that grew in insistency.

Hurstwood almost exclaimed out loud at the insistency of this thing.

Her hands and eyes became magical, her talk light and constant without insistency.

Bon stood rigidly behind him, barking with a steady, shrill insistency.

I asked with some insistency, where this joke was to end.

And now,' continues the count, 'I thank you from my heart for your insistency.

He tried to put the question without insistency, in a tone quite compatible with friendliness.

The insistency was too direct; "the queen's wish was a command."

My holidays, however, and all my personal relations with my Father were poisoned by this insistency.

As he mended she had to meet that request of his, advanced with even stronger insistency.

Always, at night, as Jean lay thinking, this incident drifted with curious insistency through her mind.

The insistency came back into his voice.

He spoke with a certain gentle insistency.

Curtius Gordianus displayed a mad insistency.

He was a little irritated, and slightly amused, by the recurring insistency with which his mind turned to her.

The carrots scared me, too, because they looked like mutant orange leeches flinging themselves from the pot with crazed insistency.