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the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators
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...passed, bent double, towing a recalcitrant cow over his shoulder.† (source)
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Neither could he mobilize his army to go forth to war, nor could he punish his recalcitrant subjects.† (source)
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With his second shot, he kills the recalcitrant light bulb.† (source)
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She's right: In both photos Chris stares at the lens with the same pensive, recalcitrant squint, as if he'd been interrupted in the middle of an important thought and was annoyed to be wasting his time in front of the camera.† (source)
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Reenie would say — when I was being recalcitrant — that I had a hard nature and she knew where I got it from.† (source)
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At weddings and name-day celebrations from Moscow to St. Petersburg, he had inevitably been seated beside the most recalcitrant of dinner guests.† (source)
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Father said no, she shouldn't encourage Sam in his recalcitrance.† (source)
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The longer the siege dragged on, the more it would hearten other recalcitrants, like Tytos Blackwood.† (source)
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Williams spoke as if he were addressing a recalcitrant child.† (source)
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These many years later I am able to see how Leslie's recalcitrance—indeed, her entire unassailable virginity—was a nice counterpoint to the larger narrative I have felt compelled to relate.† (source)
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That discourages a great many recalcitrants and helps to keep them in line.† (source)
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An ironsmith flattening a sheet of recalcitrant metal.† (source)
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Evidently, they had repaid it for its recalcitrance.† (source)
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But my grandmother was preparing for the moment when he realized that they couldn't grow all together and that some seeds would not come up at certain times, that the fine downy tendrils of cucumber might be abruptly stopped by the thickening underground bosses of carrot and potato, that the parsley might be camouflaged by the more recalcitrant weeds, and bugs that hopped about could blight the tender flowers.† (source)
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He was a barracks filled with stubborn back-looking ghosts still recovering, even forty-three years afterward, from the fever which had cured the disease, waking from the fever without even knowing that it had been the fever itself which they had fought against and not the sickness, looking with stubborn recalcitrance backward beyond the fever and into the disease with actual regret, weak from the fever yet free of the disease and not even aware that the freedom was that of impotence.† (source)
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