I am persuaded that my opposition only makes him cling the more pertinaciously to his absurd plan.
How can you cling so pertinaciously to this fancy, or attach such importance to a mere word?
A loose rose-branch that in summer sends its petals flying in through Prue's casement to her feet, is now tapping pertinaciously on the pane.
If the Presbyterian pertinaciously refused to listen to any terms of compromise where he was strong, it would be almost impossible to obtain for him liberal terms of compromise where he was weak.
And surely it would be the height of absurdity to say that we must accept submissively such usurpers as God sends in anger, but must pertinaciously withhold our obedience from usurpers whom He sends in mercy.
He was abusing the poor devils most lustily as we rode along, and stood so pertinaciously in the path, that I could not for the life of me pass without jostling him.
He could perceive no change, unless it were a heightening of the carmine on cheeks and lips, and an increased twitching of the fingers, which hunted sopertinaciously about the bed-clothes.
He paid me no attention, and pertinaciously looked at his betrothed; yet when my hand silently sought his, its pressure returned told me that he was not unconscious of my presence.
Her look so pertinaciously sought his that he could scarcely have avoided looking at her.
Miss Ducky heard all this with downcast eyes and a penitent face, and stood ready to follow her sister, who had pertinaciously refused to take a seat.
They were involved in the charges which this writer, all along, from the original passage in the Magazine, to the very last paragraph of the Pamphlet, had so confidently, so pertinaciously made.
Such truths as these she vigorously reiterates, and pertinaciously inflicts upon mankind; as to such she observes no half-measures, no economical reserve, no delicacy or prudence.
The ecclesiastical courts carried this theory into daily practice, and encroached on the temporal courts aspertinaciously as the king did on Parliament.
The spirit of commercial monopoly she has so pertinaciously manifested, proves that her ambition craves more than her means can aspire to.
In the daytime, Cornelius kept me in his studio, which they never entered but twice in my absence; in the evening he either went out with them, or got me in a corner of the sofa, and sat most pertinaciously by me.
Why did he object so pertinaciously to a matter like this?
Tried by the Saragossa tribunal, he was pertinaciously impenitent, impervious alike to argument and threats, and there was no alternative but to vote for relaxation.
But what availed it that the judge stood firm by the statute, when juries as pertinaciously backed the sentiment of the world and refused the law permission to take its course?
Aline continued to snub him so pertinaciously and persistently that Mme.
Mr. Grey pertinaciously refused to have it changed.
The major pertinaciously refused to increase his stakes, and, worse again, refused to play for anything but ready money.
He too saw the difficulty which Moody so pertinaciously avoided.
I made nothing of it, and, indeed, if he pertinaciouslyheld his tongue on the subject, so should I.
Notwithstanding Napoleon had now destroyed four Austrian armies, the imperial court was still unsubdued, and still pertinaciously refused to make peace with republican France.
Time, however, gradually softens down the rigidity of this most inconvenient practice, which is at first so pertinaciously observed.
It cannot, as far as appears, be truly alleged that any greater provocation had as yet been given by the catholics, than that of pertinaciously continuing to believe and worship as their fathers had done before them.
It encountered the resistance of men pertinaciously attached to their own tenets, and ready to suffer the privations of poverty rather than yield a simulated obedience.
He still pertinaciously urges our doing or saying something demonstrative of a disposition to be reconciled with France, and that, in the ultimate settlement of the Eastern Question, we wish to show her some deference.
This arrangement was matter of negotiation for several days, and (the Lord knows why) the Government pertinaciously insisted on it.
They called nothing by its week-day name, and avoided with singular pertinacity exactly that upon which the modern English are as pertinaciously bent—a concise homeliness of phraseology.
So he closed his eyes very pertinaciouslyand shook his head.
