Imperiously

"Who is it?" he called imperiously, and took a half dozen rapid strides toward the foot of the staircase. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

Therefore, 'Hey! boy,' she called imperiously, 'come and help me! quick!' ❋ Unknown (1911)

"Don't you drive over them wickets!" she called imperiously, when Eben came up from the lot in his dingle cart. ❋ Alice Brown (1902)

For no sooner had the ghost, armed with the stone club, stepped down to the sea-shore than he called imperiously for the ferry-boat. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

Grandmother called imperiously, but there was no answer. ❋ Myrtle Reed (1892)

His wife shouted out his name imperiously from the dark passage, "Fritz! ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)

She's penniless, "and he called imperiously for a magnum of champagne, whereupon the bartender suggested we go elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2009)

'You!' the Italian called imperiously to a youth pressing forward to hear the conversation. ❋ Michener, James (1992)

The crisp air whispered warnings of frosts still to come, but braced the nerve and gladdened the heart nevertheless, and called imperiously to youth to seek its kingdom. ❋ Marguerite Bryant (N/A)

At last the door opened, and the German called imperiously to Conrad to return. ❋ Agatha Christie (1933)

In the drawing-room Mrs. Rastall-Retford came out of her trance and called imperiously for the cards. ❋ Unknown (1928)

He started forward, but Ollie called imperiously, "Hold on there a minute, I want to say something to you first." ❋ Harold Bell Wright (1908)

This point settled, she flung open her door, calling imperiously down the passage: "Celeste!" and adding, as the French maid appeared: "I want to look over all my dinner-dresses." ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

"Gegi!" his mistress called imperiously, "do you cheer for the glorious republic?" ❋ Various (1899)

Metz; but the instinct of self-preservation now called imperiously for the ending of the hopeless struggle. ❋ John Holland Rose (1898)

Gordon wished for a moment that he had not been so daring, but the next second his fighting -- blood was up, as the other boy called imperiously: ❋ Thomas Nelson Page (1887)

That the thing was possible, even for a single most humble and unknown native of the United States, condemned the system, and called imperiously for remedy. ❋ Unknown (1877)