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recalcitrant
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    An ironsmith flattening a sheet of recalcitrant metal.†  (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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    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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    Like a sculptor finally dropping mallet and chisel, giving up on a recalcitrant block that will never take the shape he'd pictured.†  (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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    That he had a score of Socialist arguments chasing through his brain in the meantime did not interfere with this; on the contrary, Jurgis scrubbed the spittoons and polished the banisters all the more vehemently because at the same time he was wrestling inwardly with an imaginary recalcitrant.†  (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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    The master used it as a threat to recalcitrant slaves.†  (source)
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    Evidently, they had repaid it for its recalcitrance.†  (source)
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    Annette looked at me with the complete exasperation a mom shows a recalcitrant six-year-old.†  (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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