As your business is urgent you had better go and leave me.I thank you for the sympathy you express -- yet stay.…Cited from The Rover of the Andes, by R.M. Ballantyne
The president received me at once because I said my mission was urgent and personal.Cited from My Memories of Eighty Years, by Chauncey M. Depew
She just said that she wanted to see you, and that it was urgent.She's not got very long; she wants to catch the six o'clock train from Telford.…Cited from What Timmy Did, by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
But the little old woman with the bent back and rheumatic limbs understood one thing, if she made nothing else out of the general gabble.The strange boy had been in the water, and his need was urgent.…Cited from Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, by Alice Emerson
Letters of instruction that had reached him informed him that a new post was to be built along the Big Horn range in Wyoming, and that the moment he arrived a board of officers, of which he would serve as junior, would be sent out to select the site.There was urgent need of his services, therefore, and no time to be lost.…Cited from A Wounded Name, by Charles King
Last night I wrote to Raymond directing him to come and see me immediately.I did not tell him why; but I told him it was urgent.…Cited from The Spinners, by Eden Phillpotts
I declared that it was urgent to put an end to this state of things.The Hanse towns had been reduced from opulence to misery by taxation and exactions, and were no longer able to provide the funds.…Cited from Memoirs of Napoleon, V11, by Bourrienne
He began his labors in behalf of absolutism by suppressing the Huguenots.That was the only political party which was urgent for its rights.They were an intelligent party of tradesmen and small farmers; they were plebeian, but conscientious and aspiring.…Cited from Beacon Lights of History, Volume VIII, by John Lord
He has lost his son, his daughters are married, and he and I are all the brothers left out of the six!He was urgent that I should come and live with him and marry.I told him I would, with all my heart, when I had found you, and he saw I was too much in earnest to be opposed.…Cited from The Clever Woman of the Family, by Charlotte Yonge
He paid for his breakfast, and betook himself to Whitehall.There he sent up his name, and the message that it was urgent.…Cited from Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie
Her father, on his part, was urgent that she should marry again.Cited from Jesuits in North America, by Francis Parkman
The case was urgent and I could not leave it in the hands of others.Of course you could have settled the business with another of the directors, but I think -- indeed, I know -- that you prefer only to see me in these matters.…Cited from Don Orsino, by F. Marion Crawford
You know that I should not ask you to do this unless it was urgent.Cited from Prisoners, by Mary Cholmondeley
Our business is urgent -- she will allow us to go on.Cited from The Eternal City, by Hall Caine
She had meant to finish by saying that her business was urgent.But -- supposing when she found herself face to face with the girl in black, the fugitive desires which had dragged her here refused to be clothed in coherent words?…Cited from The Castle Of The Shadows, by Alice Muriel Williamson
When a boy, George worked nights, Saturdays, and during his vacations in the mills, and the men came to know and love his genial ways and fair methods, and thus he gained a good knowledge of steel-making.His father was urgent that his son should not miss a single day in his schooling.At length he graduated at the high school with the esteem of his teachers and his class.…Cited from The Harris-Ingram Experiment, by Charles E. Bolton
But in that elegant apartment, with its rich furnishings and tapestries there was no place for a crude, commercial telephone, and the door to the inner room was closed.He turned towards the outer door, for his business was urgent, but she had carried off the key.He stirred uneasily, and a shrewd doubt assailed him for her weeping seemed all at once sophisticated and forced; and at the moment she raised her head.…Cited from Rimrock Jones, by Dane Coolidge
When the city made the decision to build the school, the need for a new stadium was urgent.The Field and Athletic Association was created to find land and build a stadium.…
When Johnston got the wire then he soon pulled on his shoes.He says this case is urgent, there's little time to lose.He wore a fancy caster hat and on his breast a star.…
The work was carried on at night as well as by day, for the occasion was urgent.Meantime the men were being drilled by the Captain and his lieutenants, who had been militia officers of old.…Cited from The Burial of the Guns, by Thomas Nelson Page
