All 9 Uses of
obstinate
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Come this way, and let us know when the wedding is to be, for Fernand here is so obstinate he will not tell us.†
Chpt 3-4 *
- Bertuccio," said the count, "I am very glad to tell you, that while you gesticulate, you wring your hands and roll your eyes like a man possessed by a devil who will not leave him; and I have always observed, that the devil most obstinate to be expelled is a secret.†
Chpt 43-44
- It is I who lose my cause, and it is ill-luck, obstinacy, and folly which have caused it to be decided against me.†
Chpt 59-60
- No, but I was brought up in Corsica; you are old and obstinate, I am young and wilful.†
Chpt 63-64
- Another salver passed, loaded like the preceding ones; she saw Albert attempt to persuade the count, but he obstinately refused.†
Chpt 69-70
- But his eyes scarcely quitted the box between the columns, which remained obstinately closed during the whole of the first act.†
Chpt 87-88
- "My father—I will know who my father is," said the obstinate youth; "I will perish if I must, but I will know it.†
Chpt 107-108
- Then he saw beneath a thick clump of linden-trees, which were nearly divested of foliage, Madame de Villefort sitting with a book in her hand, the perusal of which she frequently interrupted to smile upon her son, or to throw back his elastic ball, which he obstinately threw from the drawing-room into the garden.†
Chpt 107-108
- "Yes," he said, "yes, doubtless it is painful, if you violently break the outer covering which obstinately begs for life.†
Chpt 117
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want