Sample sentences for PERTINACIOUS

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Definition

stubbornly unyielding

as pertinacious as a bulldog's mouth

pertinacious = stubbornly unyielding

the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics
Her voice was as usual, pertinacious, unfeeling, with a slight plaint in it; terrible in its unchanged purpose.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Arrow of Gold
There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysterious and appalling.
Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

pertinacious = stubbornly unyielding

I dwelt upon it with a pertinacity of attention—as if, in so dwelling, I could arrest here the descent of the steel.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

pertinacity = stubborn and unyielding

It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat

pertinacity = persistent determination

I well remember that suggestions arising from this ballad, led us into a train of thought wherein there became manifest an opinion of Usher's which I mention not so much on account of its novelty, (for other men have thought thus,) as on account of the pertinacity with which he maintained it.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Fall of the House of Usher

pertinacity = persistent determination (unyielding stubbornness)

"But tell me, my dear Sir," pertinaciously continued the other, "was the man's death effected by the halter, or was it a species of euthanasia?"
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
Poor indemnity for natural rights of self-agency so pertinaciously, so insultingly denied!
Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson
But in the end Buck's pertinacity was rewarded; for the wolf, finding that no harm was intended, finally sniffed noses with him.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
—The pertinacity of her friend seemed more than she could bear.
Jane Austen -- Emma
It clung to the member pertinaciously; yet she thought but little of the sign till Tirzah complained that she, too, was attacked in the same way.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
They fought with more pertinacity than bulldogs.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
They had not then learned, as I am told, to haggle for bargains with the pertinacity which now distinguishes them.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
But Guasconti, finding Baglioni's pertinacity intolerable, here broke away, and was gone before the professor could again seize his arm.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's Daughter
The pertinacity of the deceased, and all the circumstances united, induced him to set on foot some secret enquiries.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
Thomas Mugridge, so strangely and pertinaciously clinging to life, was soon limping about again and performing his double duties of cook and cabin-boy.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
'There may be those who could have laughed at his pertinacity; I didn't.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
"What do you call the wake?" interrupted the pertinacious and dogmatical Cap.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
But she pertinaciously refused to make any response.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones

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