Among the rest was a cocoa-palm with its full tufted head, some large brown nuts still hanging tenaciously to the parent stem.
The vine, which clings tenaciously to the small columns, is the passion plant, its flowers seeming almost artificial in their regularity, brightness, and abundance.
How often have I been tenaciously standing on the very ground that I was asking to have broken up and destroyed!
It fails, on the Station grounds at least, because the peaches run small, the flesh clings too tenaciously and the stones crack.
The peaches are not quite large enough and the stone clings a little too tenaciously for a first-class early peach.
The quality is poor and the flesh clings to the pit so tenaciously that the variety has no value, whatsoever, for dessert but is said to be excellent for pickling and to make a very good and a very distinctive canned product.
There is a great restorative power in the mere resolve to be well, strong and vigorous, in affirming and tenaciously holding the perfect ideal of ourselves which the Creator had in His plan of us.
Health is what he wishes to establish, and to do this he holds insistently and tenaciously the health ideal.
You must assert your ability and hold tenaciously the ideal of the able, efficient man or woman you long to be and that it is in you to become.
We should hold tenaciously the conviction that none of the cells of the body can be old because they are constantly being renewed, a large part of them every few months.
They are familiar with many of the habits and customs of their pale-faced neighbors, and some of them speak the English language, yet many of their native characteristics tenaciously cling to them.
A large majority of men prefer the breech-loading arm, but there are those who still adhere tenaciously to the old-fashioned muzzle-loading rifle as preferable to any of the modern inventions.
Some still cling tenaciously to the nationality of their ancestors, whilst in dress, language, manners and aspirations indistinguishable from those Russians of the class with whom they associate.
Joachim, the succeeding Patriarch, opposed Nikon's innovations, and held tenaciously to the customary practice and attempted to stifle schism by persecuting relentlessly.
This stronghold must on no account be surrendered; nay, it must be tenaciously held, in the face of every infidel assault.
This is a cardinal point which must be tenaciously held and faithfully confessed.
Expectoration is profuse, purulent, and viscid, clinging tenaciously to the throat and mouth, and the patient no longer has strength to eject it.
It clings tenaciously to all the memories connected with its first object.
All the words of the prophets were fulfilled, but because the Jews held tenaciously to hereditary interpretations, they did not understand the inner meanings of the Holy Bible; therefore, they denied Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
But, alas, we have turned away from that foundation, holding tenaciously to various dogmatic forms and blind imitation of ancestral beliefs.
They are not attached tenaciously to blind imitations of ancient beliefs and dogmas.
Therefore, those who were attached and held tenaciously to the name Abraham were deprived when the Abrahamic virtues reappeared in Moses.
Holding tenaciously to the former dawning point, they still remain in this position of deprivation.
They have held tenaciously to ancestral forms and imitations, and because of this there is variance, strife and altercation among them.
Because they were blindly following imitations, believing that which had descended to them as a heritage from their fathers and ancestors, tenaciously holding to it and refusing to investigate the reality of Christ.
They made proselytes among the pagans weary of their decrepit and moribund faiths, and thus extended the religious ideas which they so tenaciously held.
But the faith which he held then he is found holding as tenaciously as ever fourteen or twenty years afterwards, holding it, in fact, so tenaciously that he is able to bring many others to share it with him.
At a later period, by clinging tenaciously to its tail, he undoubtedly impeded its progress, and thereby enabled Hoa-mi to greet him as one who had a claim upon her gratitude.
Both of the male persons concerned have applied themselves so tenaciously to the ordeal that the result, to this simple one's antique mind, savours overmuch of the questionable arts.
While they clung tenaciously to the ritual holiness of the priestly codes, they recognized the ideal of holiness which is so sharply opposed in every act and thought to the demoralizing cults of heathenism.
At the same time it gave rise also to ritualistic piety, which, while tenaciously clinging to the traditional practice of the law, fostered hair-splitting casuistry and caused the petrifaction of religion in the codified Halakah.
Yes, she is cruel in very deed, since being a wife in name alone these years past she yet clings tenaciously to that empty title.
The missionary replies, holding tenaciously to his umbrella, "That may be true; but I fear they will be waiting me at home.
She is indeed a nice embodiment of several of those qualities which the State clings tenaciously to, and calls its own, for she lives on the labor of eleven aged negroes, five of whom are cripples.
Marcia clungtenaciously to the hope that they would not come.
Rupert held tenaciously to his possessions, and the dispute raged long and bitterly.
Ann was a family heirloom, but despite her age she clung tenaciously to life.
Nine weeks or more had elapsed since the glorious victory off Jutland, and still the Hun fleet clung tenaciously to its moorings.
One man who holds his belief tenaciously counts for as much as several men who hold theirs weakly, because he is more aggressive and thereby compels and overawes others into apparent agreement with him, or at least into silence and inaction.
Do they mean that the Alpine type, as a race, holds moretenaciously than does the Teuton to its family traditions, resenting thereby the interference of the state in its domestic institutions?
