"They mostly do," said the clergyman, griping hard at his breast, as if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain.
His secretary shielded him from importunate visitors.
It was only a fancy; yet a fancy will sometimes be importunate.
The elders, the deacons, the motherly dames, and the young and fair maidens, of Mr. Dimmesdale's flock, were alike importunate that he should make trial of the physician's frankly offered skill.
In Tirana, after I returned from Moscow, I felt the city, like some importunate blackmailer, still claiming its unpaid dues.
From that time he was the most humble, modest, and importunate man alive in his courtship.
Besides the next gift, I will importunate her for more.
I felt the reasons for your silence, and I feared to seem importunate, by writing.
I could no longer talk or laugh freely when he was by, because a tiresomely importunate instinct reminded me that vivacity (at least in me) was distasteful to him.
Bertha was astonished that he should wish to see her, and a little annoyed, for now of all times his presence would be importunate.
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