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    1. because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needed


    2. The legislature, were it possible that its deliberations could be always directed, not by the clamorous importunity of partial interests, but by an extensive view of the general good, ought, upon this very account, perhaps, to be particularly careful, neither to establish any new monopolies of this kind, nor to extend further those which are already established


    3. Peter through their importunity at length persuaded prepared himself to avoid this


    4. 21 Give not that which is holy to the dogs neither throw your pearls before the pigs lest they trample them with their feet and return and wound you; And he said to them Who of you that has a friend goes to him at mid- night and says to him My friend lend me three loaves; for a friend has come to me from a journey and I have nothing to offer to him and that friend shall answer him from within and say to him Trouble me not; for the door is shut and my children are with me in bed and I cannot rise and give you? And Truely I say to you If he will not give him because of friendship yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him what he seeks; And I also say to you Ask and you shall be given to; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you


    5. Pilate said to them And Jesus which is called the Messiah what shall I do with him? They all cried out and said Crucify him; And Pilate spoke to them again for he desired to release Jesus; but they cried out and said Crucify him crucify him and release to us Barabbas; And Pilate said to them a third time What evil has this man done? I have not found in him any cause to necessitate death; I will chastise him and let him go; But they increased in importunity with a loud voice and asked him to crucify him; And their voice and the voice of the chief priests prevailed; Then Pilate released to them that one who was throw into prison for sedition and murder Barabbas whom they asked for and he scourged Jesus with whips; Then the footsoldiers of the judge took Jesus and went into the praetorium and gathered to him all of the footsoldiers; And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet cloak; And they clothed him in garments of purple and plaited a crown of thorns and placed it on his head and a reed in his right hand; and while they mocked at him and laughed they fell down on their knees before him and bowed down to him and said Hail King of the Jews! And they spat in his face and took the reed from his hand and struck him on his head and struck his cheeks; And Pilate went outside again and said to the Jews I bring him out to you that you may know that I do not find in examining him even one crime; And Jesus went outside wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garments


    6. Who of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at midnight and say to him: friend lend me three bread loaves because a friend of mine has come to me on his journey and I have nothing to lay out in front of him? and he shall answer from the inside and say: Do not trouble me; the door is now shut and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you; I say to you though he will not rise up and give to him because he is his friend; yet because of his importunity he will rise up and give him as many things as he needs and I say to you: Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you because everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds it; and to him who knocks it shall be opened


    7. But we must not think in our prayers to prescribe to Him, or by our importunity to move Him


    8. His importunity is respecting this and "the gathering of the saints


    9. These little instruments of correction, these gentle aids to the power and honour of families, these slight favours that might so incommode you, are only to be obtained now by interest and importunity


    10. But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; even there the pestilence of gallantry will make its way to them through chinks or on the air by the zeal of its accursed importunity, and, despite of all seclusion, lead them to ruin

    11. I am that lowly peasant girl whom thou in thy goodness or for thy pleasure wouldst raise high enough to call herself thine; I am she who in the seclusion of innocence led a contented life until at the voice of thy importunity, and thy true and tender passion, as it seemed, she opened the gates of her modesty and surrendered to thee the keys of her liberty; a gift received by thee but thanklessly, as is clearly shown by my forced retreat to the place where thou dost find me, and by thy appearance under the circumstances in which I see thee


    12. Palmer, though treating their apprehensions as idle, found the anxiety and importunity of his wife too great to be withstood


    13. He prefers public duties to private, and is somewhat impatient of the importunity of relations


    14. He approached once more, and made as if he would seize the fragile being; but, shrinking back, Linton clung to his cousin, and implored her to accompany him, with a frantic importunity that admitted no denial


    15. "There are evils worse than death," said Duncan, speaking hoarsely, and as if fretful at her importunity, "but which the presence of one who would die in your behalf may avert


    16. He then graciously granted me a respite, and the next morning soon after advancing, I got rid of further importunity, till Mrs


    17. Tess, half frightened, gave way to his importunity; placed her


    18. Casaubon was now brooding over something through which the question of his health and life haunted his silence with a more harassing importunity even than through the autumnal unripeness of his authorship


    19. The conversation ended by the count, who wished to be generous and to avoid further importunity, saying that he would give a note of hand for eighty thousand rubles


    20. Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity of realities

    21. Satisfied that the cause was now on a footing the most proper and hopeful, Sir Thomas resolved to abstain from all farther importunity with his niece, and to shew no open interference


    22. And to the importunity of their persisted questionings he had finally given in; and so it came to pass that every one now knew the shameful story of his wretched fate


    23. The decided resistance with which she now met the importunity of all the men seemed offensive to them, and awakened another feeling, that of ill-will towards her


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