In that case you are beaten," he said, with that doggedness which she was beginning to know as a part of his fighting equipment.
He had reached the place with much difficulty, persevering with a doggedness characteristic of him; and there were great drops on his forehead though the afternoon was cloudy and cool.
And I think it was his tendency to pass this point that inclined him to apologise for his perseverance, and gave the air of doggedness to his work.
He often quoted the saying, "It's dogged as does it;" and I thinkdoggedness expresses his frame of mind almost better than perseverance.
Use your Judgment to the last, and put a lot of speed and doggedness behind your science," was Wadleigh's adjuration.
Gridley, under Wadleigh, played with a doggedness that made Tottenville put forth all its strength.
Above all, they declined with a gentle unconquerable doggedness to be turned from the even tenor of their ways.
There was a hint of doggednessabout him, almost as though he waited against his will.
It doesn't rest with me," Jake said, doggedness in every line.
He took her hand, but with a curious doggedness he kept his eyes averted.
Giles Hoggett was almost unable to work from rheumatism, but still was of opinion thatdoggedness might carry him on.
There could be no doggedness in a character that would submit to such trimming.
It was his turn to shudder, but he repeated with doggedness in his tone: "I have forgotten nothing.
There is a tone of doggedness that grates upon us in the words, "Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe.
An iron doggedness was in his blood--the same doggednessthat nerves men to sacrifice everything for principle.
Others said that he had been a miner in a Lake Superior copper mine who had, by the doggedness of his character, got a practical monopoly of the copper supply.
These Saturday articles, at any rate, made the Saturday reader rigid with sympathetic doggedness himself, which was all that the editor (who was doggedly trying to make the paper pay) wanted to effect.
The doggednessof their ancestors who resisted Philip II.
There wasdoggedness in the tone, and doggedness in the look that accompanied it.
It would be a ticklish feat; indeed, he was by no means confident of its possibility; but he had the strongest motives for making the attempt, as well as a native doggedness that forbade him to sit idle in the face of difficulty.
Doggedness being an unusual trait in a black fellow, the homestead became interested.
