He would order Gerard about, here and there, or send him off on an errand, with a short Peremptoriness of tone as though he were addressing some particularly lazy and useless native.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Now off with you, child,' with laughing Peremptoriness; and Mollie only paused to kiss her friend and whisper that she was quite happy now, as she would have her all to herself the next day.
"Lover or Friend"
Rosa Nouchette Carey
She had hoped indeed that the Church, with its astonishing Peremptoriness, might do something towards a moral conversion, as well as an artistic and intellectual change of view.
"The Necromancers"
Robert Hugh Benson