| And yet she had a curious impulse, an inner conviction that urged with a peremptoriness that over-rode subterfuge. |
| Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business? |
| Nettie's haste and peremptoriness were mixed, if it must be told, with a little resentment against the world in general. |
| A deep, masculine voice, unmistakable in the peremptoriness of its command, sounded from the massed tangle of the hillside. |
| She attempts to counter mounting evidence by discounting prophecies, but the brevity, the peremptoriness of her responses to his anguished questions is striking. |
| It seemed, as she spoke it, introduced simply to add peremptoriness to her forbiddance. |
