They were half of them laughing, they were all of them talking--the comfortable hum of their voices was at its loudest; the cheery pealing of the laughter was soaring to its highest notes--when one dominant voice, rising clear and shrill above all the rest, calledimperatively for silence.

Pearl, looking at this bright wonder of a house began to caper and dance, andimperatively required that the whole breadth of sunshine should be stripped off its front, and given her to play with.

"'Tis a last resource, but let us not employ it till it isimperatively called for; let us rather persevere in our researches."

But Mary herself began to be more agitated by the remembrance of what she had gone through, than she had been by the reality-- questioning those acts of hers which had comeimperatively and excluded all question in the critical moment.

Twice again,imperatively, he called Jerry to him, and twice again, with flattened ears of gentleness and wagging tail, Jerry good-naturedly expressed his disinclination.

I have resolved every night, when I am notimperatively occupied by my duties, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.

"D'ye get that?" Billy repeated, moreimperatively.

Her sense of her own importanceimperatively urged her to prove that she was not a person who could be deceived with impunity.