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citations of
pressing
needing urgent attention
1841
,
Charles Dickens
,
Barnaby Rudge
, ch. 75,
“I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very
pressing
business.”
1843
,
Thomas Carlyle
,
Past and Present
, ch. 3,
Manchester Insurrection
,
And now the world will have to pause a little, and take up that other side of the problem, and in right earnest strive for some solution of that. For it has become
pressing.
insistent
1891
,
Oscar Wilde
,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
, ch. 2,
You are very
pressing
, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
1908
,
Joseph Conrad
, "The Duel,"
He was
pressing
and persuasive.