All 14 Uses of
obstinate
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Don't be cast down, sir; you will be teaching all the young noblemen in Dotheboys Hall in less than a week's time, unless this gentleman is more obstinate than I take him to be.'†
Chpt 4
- I say it's obstinacy, and nothing shall ever convince me that it isn't.†
Chpt 7 *
- If an iron door could be supposed to quarrel with its hinges, and to make a firm resolution to open with slow obstinacy, and grind them to powder in the process, it would emit a pleasanter sound in so doing, than did these words in the rough and bitter voice in which they were uttered by Ralph.†
Chpt 10
- 'Send that obstinate scoundrel down; don't you hear me calling?'†
Chpt 13
- 'A nasty, ungrateful, pig-headed, brutish, obstinate, sneaking dog,' exclaimed Mrs Squeers, taking Smike's head under her arm, and administering a cuff at every epithet; 'what does he mean by that?'†
Chpt 13
- Sir Mulberry, however, who was not quite sober, and who was in a sullen and dogged state of obstinacy, soon silenced the representations of his weak young friend, and further seemed—as if to save himself from a repetition of them—to insist on being left alone.†
Chpt 32
- 'Damn your obstinacy, Tim Linkinwater,' said brother Charles, looking at him without the faintest spark of anger, and with a countenance radiant with attachment to the old clerk.†
Chpt 35
- 'Damn your obstinacy, Tim Linkinwater, what do you mean, sir?'†
Chpt 35
- It has the most extraordinary effect upon me, checks and controls me in the most furious and obstinate mood.†
Chpt 43
- 'Don't know about it, Mr Francis!' interrupted Tim, with an obstinate air.†
Chpt 43
- Pride, obstinacy, reputation for fine feeling, were all against it.†
Chpt 45
- Whoosh!' with which last sound, uttered in a hissing manner between his teeth, the old gentleman swung his arms violently round and round, and at the same time alternately advanced on Mrs Nickleby, and retreated from her, in that species of savage dance with which boys on market-days may be seen to frighten pigs, sheep, and other animals, when they give out obstinate indications of turning down a wrong street.†
Chpt 49
- We entreat you—brother Ned, you join me, I know, in this entreaty, and so, Tim Linkinwater, do you, although you pretend to be an obstinate dog, sir, and sit there frowning as if you didn't—we entreat you to retire from London, to take shelter in some place where you will be safe from the consequences of these wicked designs, and where you may have time, sir, to atone for them, and to become a better man.'†
Chpt 59
- Perhaps, at, another time, Ralph's obstinacy and dislike would have been proof against any appeal from such a quarter, however emphatically urged; but now, after a moment's hesitation, he went into the hall for his hat, and returning, got into the coach without speaking a word.†
Chpt 60
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want