The instincts of the mulish heart form an interesting study to the traveler in the mountains.
It was an obstinate, mulish old face, seamed and creased, the bright sunlight rendering more manifest the leather-like skin, the marvellous network of wrinkles about eyes and mouth.
Till when long enough time has elapsed you find him all the obstinate and mulish man he ever was.
And thus, as his mulish obstinacy kept him so ignorant, so his ignorance in turn increased his obstinacy.
The mulishlook comes into her face--the look he has begun to know so well.
A mulish expression comes into her face; small good would persuasion, cajolery, threats, or promises do now!
It was a small thing, but he had smarted under it, for like all weak folk he had a vein of mulish contrariness in him, and it vexed him to know that Jeckie, when she was about, was stronger than he was.
There was a strong, almost mulish sense of obstinacy in the Farnish blood, and it was particularly developed in Farnish's elder daughter.
He was backing his judgment--or was it only his mulish obstinacy?
Surely you do not mean to persist in that mulish vagary?
This is some mulish mutineer, thought Captain Delano, surveying, not without a mixture of admiration, the colossal form of the negro.
All this time I had kept my temper, and refrained as far as might be from any interference, for I saw (in our friend's mulish humour) he always contrived to twist it to our disadvantage.
Better--if the talk is to be of better at all--better an unmannerly child than an old head on young shoulders, better a mulish man than a man compliant in everything.
The unmannerly and mulish fellow is still on the way to form himself according to his own will; the prematurely knowing and compliant one is determined by the "species," the general demands, etc.
Cuckoo spoke in the most mulish manner, following her habit when she was completely puzzled, but sticking to what she believed to be the truth.
I can't," she repeated, and a mulishlook of obstinacy came into her face.
She set her lips to silence, with a look of obstinacy not impressive, but merely mulish and childish.
But she was in one of her most mulish moods, and was not to be turned from the subject or silenced.
