I say,' hestubbornly began again, 'did you wire for Alice?
But however hard he pressed the key his bedroom door remainedstubbornly shut until he found that it was already unlocked and he had only to turn the handle.
He was always stubbornly convinced it would all come right in time.
The American regiments were six days in reaching Caloocan, a prosperous town only six miles north of Manila; a mile a day, every foot stubbornly contested.
The walls and gates of the Foreign Legation were as stubbornly defended by the Chinese fanatics on the outside now as the besieged Christians had defended them against the Chinese on the inside.
The garrison had held out stubbornly and desperately throughout the siege.
Lieutenant Manley, the Brigade Commissariat Officer, stuck stubbornly to his post, and with Sergeant Harrington endeavoured to hold the hut in which he lived.
The premonition rose and stubbornly grew that he would meet Yakov, Olga, or somebody else of that company.
While looking into the woman's face he stubbornly endeavored to comprehend what had happened in the shop that day.
Never, I'll never go," she stubbornly repeated, scarcely varying her words.
It was a young but stern face, with a large forehead, a sharp nose, and stubbornly compressed lips.
He stubbornly recalled how Yakov had pummeled his sides with his powerful fists; and something sad softly hindered him from doing violence to himself.
True to its stubbornly conservative character it continued longer than the rest faithful to the Roman hierarchy.
Frederick encouraged the new faith, while the Queen of Hansa, stubbornly conservative in all matters, remained until the spring of 1531 an adherent of the old religion.
The Germans of Nassau and Hanover, who were charged with the defence of Hougomont and its approaches, stubbornly contested the standing trees and the cut-clearing which lay between them and the garden wall of the chateau.
And yet the more I resolved to get her out of my mind the more stubbornly she'd keep coming into my thoughts.
By two o'clock he was hungry and at three he was bringing all his powers of eloquence to bear upon the obtuse owner of a village garage who was stubbornly hostile to the idea of leaving his bed to provide a lunatic with gasoline.
None of them had much doubt as to what the end would be, but they stubbornly held on.
Still, Clarke's directions had plainly indicated this valley as their road, and they stubbornly pushed on, camping where they could find a dry spot.
He was tired with the journey, for excess had weakened him, and now the lust for drink which he had stubbornly fought had grown overwhelming.
In order to keep from thinking that the low dunes of sand and marsh, shrouded in twilight haze, through which they now were passing were very dreary she held stubbornly to her speculations concerning the "baby.
For hours they had searched the bay with only their knowledge of tides and winds to guide them; more than once the others had been ready to abandon the search as futile, but the Captain had held them stubbornly to it.
Her heart gave a quick bound only to grow cold at the sight of Trude's chin which was set stubbornly in a way that Sidney well knew!
Further to the south, at Plessier-Huleu, the Chasseurs of the 4th Division stubbornlyopposed the German advance which was very slow in this region, thanks to the bravery and self-sacrifice of this division.
To save their guns and organize their retreat the Germans stubbornly opposed the American advance.
On the 5th the Germans had only two bridgeheads south of the Vesle, one at Courlandon and the other to the east of Muizon, but they stubbornly resisted the Allies’ attempts to cross the river, re-engaging several of their best divisions.
Smith still stubbornlyheld the attacking column proper up at the crest.
Our men, gaining fresh courage, rallied again, and for the first time that day the enemy was held stubbornly in check.
Long and anxiously he waited for the centre to open its part of the contest, and meanwhile held stubbornly to his bloody ridge under murderous fire.
Logan, commanding the Fifteenth Corps, to tell him what had happened; that he must assume command of the Army of the Tennessee, and hold stubbornly the ground already chosen.
Thanks solely to his discipline and his dominant influence, it now endured compulsory and disastrous retreat with fortitude and stubbornly contested every inch of the blood-soaked ground.
Shields resisted so valiantly and so stubbornly that Jackson's advance corps was very nearly overthrown, but in the end the Confederate commander brought a superior force to bear and completely crushed Shields's defense.
Under the commander it had it did itself great honor by retreating in good order and stubbornly resisting the Confederate advance wherever it was permitted to do so.
Yet she stubbornly clings to the notion that this marriage would be a mesalliance for the Milbreys.
They have the air of being ready to resent a slight while stubbornly maintaining a right.
I begged the girl who started the idea to postpone the play until the week after Thanksgiving holiday, but she stubbornly refused.
Out of hearing of the others, Mr. Fabian then explained that Elizabeth had stubbornly refused to postpone the entertainment, and because of her insistence, Mrs. Wellington had taken whatever hall she could find.
It resulted at least in a good deal of confusion of which the chair was briefly tolerant; then he resumed his pounding, while Harwood stood stubbornly on his chair.
He was near to tears; but he remained stubbornly silent until Harwood again demanded to know how he contrived the meeting with Marian.
They have created for their own use an inconceivably fantastic and phonetic system of spelling which they stubbornly refuse to relinquish and which often makes their writing rather difficult to read.
At the risk of its life, it stubbornly digs and gnaws to the very bark, of which it leaves no more intact than the thinnest film, a slender screen.
If you have business it must be at the house; the road is in the other direction," and Ijima pointed to the wood, but the stranger remained stubbornlyon the edge of the pier.
He stood stubbornly still before the Davenport, his arms stiff at his sides, his suffering eyes upon the lit taper--upon Jane.
Stubbornly he placed his shiny, large, hurting right foot on the running-board.
Would to God that on both sides we were working toward this unity, offering our hands to one another in brotherly humility, and not standing stubbornly on our powers or rights!
For since these do and think as they do, not because they are stubbornly wicked, but only because their faith is weak, the fasts and other things which they think necessary must be observed to avoid giving them offence.
Their progress was stubbornly contested, but on the 21st they entered Craiova on the main Rumanian railway, thus cutting off the western part of Rumania from the capital and isolating the army defending Orsova and Turnu Severin.
They had brought up reinforcements to make a stand on that shortened front, and they stubbornly contested the French advance on the Lassigny massif.
The first was defeated on the 17th by a brilliant Belgian resistance, and the third was repulsed on the 18th before Hinges and at Givenchy; but the second was longer delayed and more stubbornly pushed.
That northern attack was not renewed, but from Ovillers south and eastwards the advantage was stubbornly pressed on the 2nd.
They stubbornly defended their main line of communications for days until the bulk of their forces could get away; and they evacuated the salient slowly and in good order.
The Belgians fought more stubbornly than was anticipated; and aided by Brialmont's fortification of Liège, although his plans for defence were not properly executed, they held up the Germans for two days in front of the city.
His feet were set stubbornlyin the road, and the bundle lay beside them.
The boy looked at him and stubbornlyshook his head.
He seemed to be stubbornly bent on a virtual repetition of his previous folly.
The ominous first paragraph of the Emancipation Proclamation was evidence that the President was still stubbornly for his own policy; that he had not surrendered to the opposite view.
He had stubbornly resisted the press, but had been knocked on the head, and there was an end on it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stubbornly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
