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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
- 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
- It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat
- 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
- "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
pertinacious = stubbornly unyielding
pertinacity = stubborn and unyielding
pertinacity = persistent determination
pertinacity = persistent determination (unyielding stubbornness)
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