All 3 Uses of
obstinate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of…†
Chpt 2.1
- But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- With such scraps tossing and rolling upward from the depths of his mind, the prisoner walked faster and faster, obstinately counting and counting; and the roar of the city changed to this extent—that it still rolled in like muffled drums, but with the wail of voices that he knew, in the swell that rose above them.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want