All 4 Uses of
tenacious
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "Hold your tongue, will you?" said Danglars, pretending to restrain Caderousse, who, with the tenacity of drunkards, leaned out of the arbor.†
Chpt 3-4 *
- All this was incomprehensible, and then, with the tenacity peculiar to prophets of bad news, the failure was put off until the end of September.†
Chpt 29-30
- Instead of striking between the sixth and seventh left ribs, as your countrymen do, you must have struck higher or lower, and life is very tenacious in these lawyers, or rather there is no truth in anything you have told me—it was a fright of the imagination, a dream of your fancy.†
Chpt 61-62
- "That is a tenacious old grandfather," said Beauchamp.†
Chpt 73-74
Definition:
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(tenacious) persistent and unyielding