Both Uses of
obstinate
in
Silas Marner
- ...a blonde dimpled girl of eighteen, who has vainly tried to chastise her curly auburn hair into smoothness under her brown bonnet: the hair ripples as obstinately as a brooklet under the March breeze, and the little ringlets burst away from the restraining comb behind and show themselves below the bonnet-crown.
Chpt 2.16 *obstinately = stubbornly unyielding to the wishes of others
- Godfrey was not insensible to her loving effort, and did Nancy no injustice as to the motives of her obstinacy.†
Chpt 2.17
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want