Sample Sentences forpertinacious (editor-reviewed)
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She held on as pertinaciously as a bulldog's mouth.pertinaciously = in a stubbornly unyielding manner
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I dwelt upon it with a pertinacity of attention—as if, in so dwelling, I could arrest here the descent of the steel. (source)pertinacity = stubborn and unyielding
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There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysterious and appalling. (source)pertinacious = stubbornly unyielding
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For Demi inherited a trifle of his sire's firmness of character, we won't call it obstinacy, and when he made up his little mind to have or to do anything, all the king's horses and all the king's men could not change that pertinacious little mind.† (source)
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Whatever I did, that idea would bother me: it was so tiresomely pertinacious that I resolved on requesting leave to go to Wuthering Heights, and assist in the last duties to the dead.† (source)
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Staring impotently across a courtyard, at a loss for what to do; hearing the pertinacious rumbling of one's own stomach during a moment of love; betraying, yet lacking the will to abandon the glamorous path of betrayal; raising one's fist with the crowds in the Grand March; displaying one's wit before hidden microphonesI have known all these situations, I have experienced them myself, yet none of them has given rise to the person my curriculum vitae and I represent.† (source)
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Doubtless my words surprised Henry; he at first believed them to be the wanderings of my disturbed imagination, but the pertinacity with which I continually recurred to the same subject persuaded him that my disorder indeed owed its origin to some uncommon and terrible event.† (source)
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I had remembered them as little tricksters, pertinacious but foolish, with only a kind of village cunning; and I had assumed that for them studying meant only cramming.† (source)
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Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit?† (source)
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But in the end Buck's pertinacity was rewarded; for the wolf, finding that no harm was intended, finally sniffed noses with him.† (source)
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Here be it said, that this pertinacious pursuit of one particular whale, continued through day into night, and through night into day, is a thing by no means unprecedented in the South sea fishery.† (source)
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In whatever position I placed the box the needle pertinaciously returned to this unexpected quarter.† (source)
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Scarcely, therefore, had the reflective Franz walked a hundred steps beneath the interior porticoes of the ruin, than, abandoning Albert to the guides (who would by no means yield their prescriptive right of carrying their victims through the routine regularly laid down, and as regularly followed by them, but dragged the unconscious visitor to the various objects with a pertinacity that admitted of no appeal, beginning, as a matter of course, with the Lions' Den, and finishing with Caesar's "Podium,"), to escape a jargon and mechanical survey of the wonders by which he was surrounded, Franz ascended a half-dilapidated staircase, and, leaving them to follow their monotonous round, seated hims† (source)
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Hugh was pertinacious.† (source)
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He was very careful of his valise and umbrella, bringing them in with his own hands, and resisting, pertinaciously, all offers from the various servants to relieve him of them.† (source)
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—The pertinacity of her friend seemed more than she could bear.† (source)
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