At length hisobduracy melting made The avowal mentioned" .
In the obduracyof his heart, Cain spake: "O Lord of the world!
Partly they persisted in their obduracy of heart because Noah had made known to them that the flood would not descend so long as the pious Methuselah sojourned among them.
Of his own obduracy Ahaz has betrayed the Messiah and Deliverer of his people.
It is creditable to the Italian Jews of this period that, in spite of the general deterioration and demoralization, the political and ecclesiastical literature of the times imputes no other crimes to them than obduracy and unbelief.
On a certain occasion, he had his counselor and minister Cassiodorus write the following to the community of Milan: "Why dost thou seek temporal peace, O Judah, when because of thine obduracy thou art unable to find eternal peace?
But Sally Turk clutched the arm of Will Turk's wife in fingers that were tight with the obduracy of despair.
The man stood off looking at her with a love that was almost awe, with an admiration that was almost idolatry, but the obduracy persisted in his eyes.
The tyrant was moved with her distress; for unfeeling obduracy is the vice only of the old, whose sensibility has been worn away by the habitual perpetration of reiterated wrongs.
I said to myself: "This is the same obduracy that her father has shown.
This stony obduracy was so new and unlike her that I withdrew my arm and stepped back a little to regard her with astonishment, not unmingled with pique.
Here the opposition and obduracy were such that they had actually driven out the missionaries.
The obduracy of the Parisians in refusing to believe in the siege up to the very last moment was certainly one of the strangest phases of the siege itself.
That Aunt Dosett's voice was harsh was not her fault,--nor that in the obduracyof her daily life she had lost much of her original softness.
Ayala had no doubt been pert and disobedient at Glenbogie and at Rome, but there had been an unbending obduracy about Lucy which had been more distasteful to Aunt Emmeline than even Ayala's pert disobedience.
As to waiting patiently till her father's obdurate heart should be softened by the greater obduracy of her own love, there was a tedium and a prolonged dulness in such a prospect which were anything but attractive to her.
But have I not also suffered from the obduracyof your father, who broke our marriage?
Sometimes with dialectic subtlety he turned his examiners to ridicule, at others he vacillated between obduracy and submission.
Continued refusal to speak led to increase in the severity of the application; further obduracy with increase in the severity of the type of torture.
She cannot be willing that he should go free to rejoice in the triumph of his obduracy among confederates and to spread contagion among the faithful.
There is a legend that Dominic, stung by his ill-success, predicted what the upshot of such deplorable obduracy must eventually be.
The charge of heresy was mainly based on the obduracy of a young girl in repelling the licentious advances of a young canon of Rheims.
But the severity of the torture administered in these cases was due to the extraordinary obduracy frequently shown by the victims.
He had found that the weapons of persuasion and eloquence were not strong enough to break down the obduracy of his enemies the Donatists.
Anger and irritation can do much to harden the obduracy of any party conviction, especially whilst in the centre of fiery partisans.
I could scarcely suppose him ignorant of what had occurred; and, if aware of the sad event, his obduracy was unmanly to a degree that filled me with disgust.
He has not theobduracy of Lord Brock, nor the ineffable manner of Mr. Mildmay, nor the brilliant intellect of Mr. Gresham.
The obduracy of the Whartons might probably be owing to these two accidents.
He had then felt sure that the man would go and would take his wife with him, but he did not even yet know the obduracy and the cleverness and the impregnability of his son-in-law.
To have no fear of God before one's eyes, is expressive of great obduracy in sin; of the last grade of depravity.
On the present occasion, the popular obduracy and unbelief evinced itself in a conspiracy to destroy the prophet by false accusation.
Now, when the attitude of the people towards his message and himself at last leaves no doubt that their obduracyis invincible, in his despair and distraction he cries, Be it so, then!
