But he resisted bravely; refusing to receive all letters, messages, and parcels; obstinately declining to treat with anybody; and holding out no hope or promise of capitulation.
If the Sun himself stuck obstinately to one point, we should be scorched by summer heat, and blinded by too much light.
You will soon be a white-headed old man, Jean, if you obstinately remain here, when our dear mother would willingly sell all to free you.
His foot was improving fast, and the doctor had suggested his dropping the crutch for a cane; but he kept on with it, kept on obstinately without a spoken pretext.
Discarded by the rector, who was obstinately irreconcileable, my mother went with her husband to reside in the house of her father-in-law.
At this however my manly pride revolted, and I obstinately kept my seat, notwithstanding her very obliging intreaties.
To this proposal, seasoned with oaths three at least to a sentence, Andrews continued obstinately averse.
General Menou, now alone, and shut up in Alexandria, obstinately and heroically resisted in vain.
A man of skill and prudence, though obstinately attached to his own opinions, St. Cyr was never a favorite with Napoleon, though he knew his merit.
Prussia, long and obstinately faithful to its policy of neutrality, and recently disposed to draw nearer to us, began to incline towards Russia, with whom she soon concluded an alliance.
Amongst the Chouans arrested in the month of August, two had remained obstinately silent, and had been shot; a third was less courageous.
He set out nevertheless, obstinately refusing to take with him Cardinal Consalvi, in whose hands he had placed his abdication.
The royal uneasiness did not permit them long to leave the favorite in a guard-house, a prey to the insults and ill-usage of the populace; the king and queen remained obstinately faithful to their friend.
Here a keenly contested fight cost us the life of General Gudin, when obstinately carrying the passage at the point of the bayonet.
In spite of repeated promises, the government of that small State remained obstinately faithful to England.
The moment he saw me, he pulled out the pocket-book and pencil, and obstinately insisted on taking notes of everything that I said to him.
She never quarrelled, she never took offence; she only kept a certain distance, obstinately and civilly, between the rest of them and herself.
They were all obstinately of opinion that the poor girl had stolen the Moonstone, and that she had destroyed herself in terror of being found out.
Betteredge obstinately declined to listen to any solution of the difficulty, without first referring it to my sanction and approval.
My thoughts went back again obstinately to the birthday dinner.
Instead of looking up at us in her usual straightforward way, she sat close at the table, and kept her eyes fixed obstinately on an open book.
With that apology, the lawyer had gone back to his own room, and had immersed himself obstinatelyin his black bag.
I endeavoured to excuse myself, by alleging that I did not know the road; but he obstinately persisted, and, after a few high words and menacing looks, threw down the saddle and went away.
You seem," he retorted, "to have lost sight of the fact that the law gives me the right to take by force that which you so obstinately refuse.
It is not simply our disposition, it is our being as a whole and the circumstances that we are in, which obstinatelyoppose the emergence and the development of an independent spiritual world.
Though a king was consumed by love for her, she obstinately refused to yield to him the power over her person.
I endeavoured to excuse myself, by alleging that I did not know the road, but he obstinately persisted; and after a few high words and menacing looks, threw down the saddle and went away.
I have seen a mother bear, galled by frequent shots, obstinately meet her death, by repeatedly returning under fire whilst endeavouring to rescue her young from the grasp of intruding men.
Because the Wazungu had clothes, and they had none, they cared not how the water flew about; and the more they were asked to desist, the more obstinately they persevered.
Or it was the fierce carnal love of mature womenobstinately clinging to the lovers who were neglecting them for fresher girls.
This sort of priest obstinately opposes every element of progress and obliges his people to do the same.
Those questions which Lincoln obstinatelyand against advice had insisted upon pushing in 1858 had forced this disastrous development of irreconcilable differences.
General Grant found that General Halleck was even more obstinately in the way of his winning any success than were the Confederates themselves.
Take my advice, sir; do not obstinately choose a wrong path, but prove to the Government all your gratitude for the favours you have received by abandoning this villain.
My soul feels, longs for, approaching death, while my body is still obstinately rebellious.
Obstinately I tormented the blue depths with my scrutiny, sweeping them forever with my eyes, and searching them for one angelic face that might, perhaps, have permission to reveal itself for a moment.
Unable to explain my own impressions in "Aladdin," I did not the less obstinately persist in believing a sublimity which I could not understand.
