Lexicographical Neighbors of Importuners
Literary usage of Importuners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... sweet wine, everything the best, and went to his chamber, where already a mass
of importuners, solicitors, petitioners, were crowded. ..."
2. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1868)
"For all this, Washington, who was annoyed by shoals of selfish importuners, and
had not yet become aware ..."
3. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1901)
"The tumultuous rushing upon the Legislature, of importuners for bank corporations,
from all parts of the State, would cease, because no charter or ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"To thee thy callow importuners cry, Gracious thy ear, and bounteous thy supply ;
Till the flown choirs the revel consort raise, And hymn to Heav'n the ..."
5. Memoirs of Emma, Lady Hamilton: The Friend of Lord Nelson and the Court of by Walter Sydney Sichel (1910)
"Where now were the tribes of flatterers, of importuners for promotion, or even
the crowd of true and genial hearts? Her still lingering beauty had formed an ..."
6. Wayfarers in Italy by Katharine (Putnam) Hooker (1901)
"At first one is apt to have a season of impatience with these old importuners
whose services in general are so preposterously unnecessary, a good gondolier, ..."
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