Now this encounter with his own son,-the only one who could set all right,-and who yet did not know of the happenings which so imperatively required his presence in the court room, set Larry Kildene's thoughts stammering and tripping over each other in such a confusion of haste, and with it all the shyness before the great fact of his unconfessed fatherhood, so overwhelmed him, that for once his facile Irish nature did not help him.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
"There were circumstances that required-imperatively required me-to leave Lady Dorothea-" "Let me hear them," said he, breaking in, "It would lead me to speak of others than myself,-of events which are purely family matters,-were I to enter upon this theme.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
The growth of population forces more and more imperatively upon us the necessity of making the most of our land, and consequently raises the question how far private property in such a subject is conducive to that end.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae