Nay Sir Peter they are People of Rank and Fortune-- and remarkably tenacious of reputation.
Yes egad they are tenacious of Reputation with a vengeance, for they don't chuse anybody should have a Character but themselves!
And the inexplicable point about it is that the more blind is this passion, the more tenacious it is.
The struggle was none the less tenacious and deadly because it was being fought out almost entirely in the dark, and Wilfrid temporarily lost his self-possession.
Wilfrid's grip was as tenacious as that of a bulldog, all his fighting instincts aroused.
Napoleon, affecting to be more tenacious than ever of his dignity, not only excluded the British envoy from his own presence, but even threw obstacles in the way of his visiting his mother and sister.
But it seems that Napoleon, more tenacious of form than a prince who had been cradled in it, considered this vailing of his dignity as too great a concession on his part to be granted to the Governor of St. Helena.
We sunder all others; we do not tolerate any special aggregation; we do the best we can to break up the most tenacious of all, the family.
But the Spanish miners were too tenacious of their old customs to give way.
The Scythians have not only a great abhorrence of all foreign customs, but each province seems unalterably tenacious of its own.
He is always very tenacious about having any one come into his room.
I had always kept clear of all difficulties; was very tenacious about my standing in society.
With such a slug-like, patient, tenacious fool, was that not more likely?
Tenacious as he usually was when his opinion was formed, and much as it must have cost him to give up what had become a darling project, he yielded to this view.
When questions arose regarding internal university management, or courses of study, or the choice of professors, or plans for their accommodation, he was never quick in announcing or tenacious in holding an opinion.
He was ever jealous andtenacious of his dignities.
But for the disability of the dog through the tenacious trap the chances would be in his favour; but his exhaustion and encumbrance give the odds to the other.
And the Face shone out again as his softened will loosened itstenacious grip of that it held.
His long, tenacious hands were clenched repressively.
He was struck again with that sense of a will firmer and more tenacious than his own, which had visited him in a slight passing way on the first evening they ever met, and now filled him with a kind of despair.
Mowbray Elsmere had been hardly on speaking terms with his cousin Edward, and was neither amiable nor generous, but his father knew that thetenacious Elsmere instinct was to be depended on for the fulfilment of his wishes.
It was because of the man's smile--a feeble, tenacious grimace that seemed to be offering a sardonic reproof.
One was never looking forward to Winkelberg, and thus the sight of his wan, determined smile, his lusterless eyes and his tenacious crawl was invariably an uncomfortable surprise.
The tenacious long jaw had a squareness underneath it that seemed to be in keeping with the length of the upper lip.
So tenacious was the opposition of the Austin friars, both in Manila and the provinces, that the British appear to have regarded them as their special foes.
The attempts of the Jesuit missionaries to convert them to Christianity were entirely futile, for the Panditas and the Romish priests were equally tenacious of their respective religious beliefs.
In Mindanao, the Malanao tribes, occupying the northern regions around the Lake Lanao districts, seem to have offered the most tenacious resistance.
The ecclesiastical archives of the Philippines abound with proofs of the bitter and tenacious strife sustained, not only between the civil and Church authorities, but even amongst the religious communities themselves.
He was most deliberate and methodical in his habits of thought, and had an unusually tenacious grip upon the thread of his argument.
In France, that influence of resident proprietors had all been transferred to other hands, tenacious in holding what property they had acquired, and determined to make good the defence of it against those who claimed a prior right.
Gaudin was dragged from the tribune; the voice of other Moderates was overpowered by clamour--never had the party of democracy shown itself fiercer or more tenacious than when about to receive the death-blow.
Nitric acid turns wheat flour of an orange-yellow colour, but forms a stiff and tenacious jelly with potato fecula, the colour of which it does not alter.
From the want of this precaution, it is common for an emulsion suddenly to lose its tenacious consistence in the mortar, and it is then in vain to endeavour to restore it.
So tenacious of life are these latter that, even if dried, they will retain their vitality for months, and even years.
After a time the melted mass becomes perfectly limpid and free from air-bubbles, when it is allowed to cool until it assumes the peculiar tenacious condition proper for working.
