-
Night (also
known as the
Parable of the
Friend at
Midnight or of the
Importunate Neighbour) is a
parable of
Jesus which appears in Luke 11:5–8. In it...
- The
Parable of the
Unjust Judge (also
known as the
Parable of the
Importunate Widow or the
Parable of the
Persistent Woman, is one of the
parables of...
- "The
Bridge of Sighs" is an 1844 poem by
Thomas Hood
concerning the
suicide of a
homeless young woman who
threw herself from
Waterloo Bridge in London...
- infant,
while he
behaves toward her as if he were
frozen in time as an
importunate baby. This
overrated picture book thus
presents as a
paradigm for young...
-
lawes that
England hath, [viz.,
Magna Carta] were got by our
Forefathers importunate petitioning unto the
kings that
still were
their Task-masters; and yet...
- does the red pole
which projects from my
indecent groin; but as for the
importunate birds, the reed
fixed on my head
terrifies them and
forbids them to settle...
-
characterized by a great, strict, very
serious seriousness, a determined,
almost importunate tendency to
follow classical models, the finest,
cleverest calculation...
- "the
Dowager of
Scotland maketh all this
court weary of her, such an
importunate beggar is she for herself. The king
would fain be rid of her. The trucking...
-
Friend at
Night (
Importunate Neighbour)...
- Indeed, the new king's
craving for Humboldt's
company became at
times so
importunate as to
leave him only a few
waking hours to work on his writing. Humboldt's...
