Sophia was a girl of much greater force of will than it was at all usual to look for in a woman, for the most refractory women, so the clan believed, chattered and scolded, but obeyed.
They did not know that St. Laurence had distributed this money among the poor, in acts of charity and benevolence; therefore they considered him only as a refractory person, and punished him accordingly.
The refractory lava of Etna, it is true, remains long barren, and that of the great eruption of 1669 is still almost wholly devoid of vegetation.
Isthmuses are usually composed of adamantine rock or of shifting sands--the latter being much the more refractory material to deal with.
A term generally applied to refractory children, and Adelphi farces!
We must confess that the refractory table has been occasionally a good deal put upon.
However refractory she might be, his mother's intercession should benefit her.
To see Mr. Denby pinning on the man's refractory Puritan starched collar was rich.
Now and then they would knock down a refractory nigger or two within reach, but it had no effect upon the others, and confusion reigned supreme.
It's no trouble at all," answered the other, tugging vigorously at a refractory strap.
Matter, which from the point of view of a given ideal is merely its potentiality, is in itself the potentiality of every other ideal as well; it is accordingly responsible to no ideal in particular and proves in some measure refractory to all.
These refractory habits are to blame for the rare and inimitable quality of genius; they impose excellence on one man and refuse it to a million.
The difficulty in carrying rational policy very far comes partly from the refractory materials at hand, and partly from the narrow range within which moral science is usually confined.
It gives vent to emotion before it is adjusted to things external and reduced, as it were, to its own echo rebounding from a refractory world.
Well, I'm always in such a hurry," mourned Polly, brushing furiously on the refractory locks.
So Polly jumped up again, and laying determined fingers on the refractory bow, sent it into a shape that Alexia protested was "too lovely for anything.
Now, this refractory element is at once, and in the simplest way possible, exterminated by Mr. Ricardo's reformed law of value.
The captive now looked like a sort of appendage to his person--being strapped to his arm by a stout thong of bull's hide, such as was used for correcting refractory slaves.
A fray was nigh commencing--a circumstance not at all unusual in those turbulent times--but the master of the band speedily interfered, threatening displeasure and a wholesome discipline to his refractory servants.
No one discovered the slightest inclination to profit by the distress of the refractory town of Boston.
There were, however, strong reasons to suspect that the Ameers were holding communications with the refractory Brahoe tribes, with a view of attacking the British on a favourable opportunity.
The provincial parliament of that province assembled on the 18th of August; but from its refractory conduct Lord Gosford was compelled to prorogue it.
He declared that if he could not find support at Calcutta, he would procure it elsewhere; and he actually sent for some civil servants from Madras, and turned the refractoryout of their offices.
His majesty now tried whether the refractory lord could not be brought to a proper sense of his duty.
The government of Lahore was guilty of complicity in these movements, although affecting to be incensed against the refractory chiefs and provinces.
On the 23rd of November, still more unequivocal symptoms of a refractory spirit appeared in the Irish parliament.
Most of the members, after some hesitation, submitted to this condition; but retained the same refractory spirit which they had discovered in their first debates.
The same refractory humor which made the people refuse to the king voluntary supplies, disposed them, with better reason, to murmur against these irregular methods of taxation.
And being determined that the sword should carry conviction to all refractory minds, they prepared themselves, with great vigilance and activity, for their military enterprises.
The latter affection, however, prevailed for the time, and made him hasten those military preparations which he had projected for subduing the refractory spirit of the Scottish nation.
Yet they themselves in judging their own refractory members have given a far more signal example of that self-judgment which St. Paul speaks of.
It is probable that the carborundum gradually decomposes in the firing, leaving a thin coating of practically pure silica which forms a smooth, impervious and highly-refractory facing.
It was destroyed, as also Sigeium, by the Ilienses on account of the refractory disposition of its inhabitants.
The effect of this little bit of science may be thus stated --Men for two years had been punished as refractory for not making all day two thousand revolutions per hour of a 15 lb.
A refractory jailer defies the discipline of the prison.
Then, as they reached the street, he caught Father Anton's arm and shook it almost as he would a refractory child's.
She tucked in a refractory wisp of hair that was straying over her ear.
I heard it was he gave her up," says Teddy Luttrel, who has been fighting so hard with a refractory collar up to this that he has not been able to edge in a word.
How to deal with Refractory Horses, which have been gentled for a long time in the common way.
I have here given the whole secret of taming, in a few hours, the most refractory wild horse.
It is our duty and our interest to detect such refractory and abnormal children at the earliest period, to examine them carefully, and to ensure that each shall have the treatment best adapted to him.
Pigeon said that in her experience she had never met a child of five or six, however perverted and vicious, who was refractory to education.
Among the most troublesome announcements made to the amazed parish--always with a threat against refractory persons--I must recall that which forbade them to cut down grass along roads and paths.
The little emigrants of Cerny were still screaming, the refractory woman had not left off crying.
The hope of snatching the Crown had not been premeditated by the two heads of the refractory House of Guise; there was nothing to justify the project or the hope; circumstances suggested such audacity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refractory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
