1 Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
2 His first care was given to the child, whose cries, indeed, as she lay writhing on the trundle-bed, made it of peremptory necessity to postpone all other business to the task of soothing her.
3 However much astonished I might be, I was sensible that I had no right to refuse compliance with such a peremptory command.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI... 4 Levin jumped up, and with a peremptory whisper made her go out.
5 Tea ready, I was going to approach the table; but she desired me to sit still, quite in her old peremptory tones.
6 He was quite peremptory, both in look and voice.
7 No plan offered itself: the very exhibition of any desire to keep him would have rendered the claimant more peremptory: there was nothing left but to resign him.
8 Scarlett submitted meekly to being carried toward the carriage and also to the peremptory manner in which Uncle Peter criticized her and Prissy.
9 An officer's peremptory tenor rang out and quickened the stiffened movement of the men.
10 Finally Stapleton turned upon his heel and beckoned in a peremptory way to his sister, who, after an irresolute glance at Sir Henry, walked off by the side of her brother.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 11 When, awakened from his sleep, he received that cold, peremptory note from Kutuzov, he felt the more irritated the more he felt himself to blame.
12 He hesitated and grew pale with anger, called the usher and gave him his card, with a few peremptory words, and slowly sat down.