"Listen to me, Sigurd," he said, with a certain imperativeness; "I cannot promise you to go away, but I can promise that I will do no harm to you or to-to-Thelma.
"Thelma"
Marie Corelli
"I want you to take me to tea," she announced, with her accustomed imperativeness.
"A Man's Hearth"
Eleanor M. Ingram
The full imperativeness of the question was in the gaze he bent upon the matron.
"Lonesome Town"
Ethel and James Dorrance