He spoke quite civilly, but the peremptoriness jarred on her.
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Then the faithful Sam revived his suit with some peremptoriness.
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It seemed, as she spoke it, introduced simply to add peremptoriness to her forbiddance.
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It seemed, as she spoke it, introduced simply to add peremptoriness to her forbiddance.
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Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business?
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And yet she had a curious impulse, an inner conviction that urged with a peremptoriness that over-rode subterfuge.
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A deep, masculine voice, unmistakable in the peremptoriness of its command, sounded from the massed tangle of the hillside.
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From the start, they demonstrate the peculiar mixture of peremptoriness and ingratiation that would characterize his relationships throughout his life.
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Nettie's haste and peremptoriness were mixed, if it must be told, with a little resentment against the world in general.
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She attempts to counter mounting evidence by discounting prophecies, but the brevity, the peremptoriness of her responses to his anguished questions is striking.
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He spoke with peremptoriness, as he placed a chair for her feet, so that she might sit with her back to the loom.
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Mrs. Stannidge thereupon said with a considerate peremptoriness that she and her mother had better take their own suppers if they meant to have any.
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For suddenly the drum beat to quarters, which familiar sound happening at least twice every day, had upon the present occasion a signal peremptoriness in it.
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She was going to have room for the energies which stirred uneasily under the dimness and pressure of her own ignorance and the petty peremptoriness of the world's habits.
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"Allen was an ignorant and profane Deist, who died with a mind replete with horror and despair" was the opinion of Newark, New Jersey's Reverend Uzal Ogden. Yale's Timothy Dwight expressed satisfaction that the world no longer had to deal with a man of "peremptoriness and effrontery, rudeness and ribaldry". It is not recorded what New York Governor Clinton's reaction was to the news.
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Tô Hiến Thành was considered a talent and competent official when he was conferred the title Regent. After the death of Anh Tông, his uppermost consort (now became Empress Dowager Chiêu Linh) wanted to dethrone her son Long Xưởng, who was the former Crown Prince. But thanks to Tô Hiến Thành's peremptoriness, Cán eventually became the successor of the throne. Tô Hiến Thành fell ill not long after.
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