He demanded its return, at once, in his most imperative tones.

The imperative tone opened up all sorts of possibilities: The house burned down.

"You lie," repeated the abbe a third time, with a still more imperative tone.

As the leaders spell each other off, the babble assumes imperative tones.

I sat down on the edge, stared at her through foggy eyes and tried to summon a properly imperative tone.

Goszul asked the pariah in an imperative tone.

I beg your parding, young man,' demanded Mrs. Raddle, in a louder and more imperative tone.

"Croisier, come down, I command you; you have no business there," cried Bonaparte, in a loud and imperative tone.

A dark, wild face was seen, for a moment, to glance at the window of the house; and, as Legree opened the door, a female voice said something, in a quick, imperative tone.

La Gorda said in a most imperative tone that I could not go with them yet because she had not finished telling me every- thing the Nagual had instructed her to tell me.

Thus, a dog can learn his own name, and understand the verbs "go" and "come," especially with the imperative tone of his master; but he could never understand the words "outgoing year" or "incoming year."

A law-book never recites the utility, the grounds, the casuistical antecedents of a law: for if it did so it would lose the imperative tone, the "thou shalt," on which obedience is based.

The presence of Bulgarian customs officers at the Carpathians indicates a Bulgarian suzerainty over those lands, though Radu's imperative tone hints at a strong and increasing Wallachian autonomy.

"And I," cried Fouquet, in that imperative tone to which one feels there is nothing to reply, "if you entertain one thought, one single thought, which is not the absolute expression of my will, I will have you cast into the Bastile two hours after that thought has manifested itself.