The inveteracy of this custom may be inferred from the following incident: —. From Wordnik.com. [Death of the Laird's Jock] Reference
Pop-up large image the person the greater the inveteracy of these foes of Humane Nature. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 March 1778] Reference
Upon the whole, Madam, said I, can you say, that the inveteracy lies not as much on our side, as on his?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I dare say, Sir, such is the assurance of the man upon whom my unhappy destiny threw me; and such his inveteracy to my family. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The pipers on both sides blew their charge, and the combatants again mingled in battle, not indeed with the same strength, but with unabated inveteracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
The Diet, however, indignantly refused either to ratify the treaty or pay the tribute; and hostilities were resumed the next year with increased inveteracy on both sides. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
I begin to hate myself with most strange inveteracy!. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
I was a puritan in the inveteracy with which I persevered in it. From Wordnik.com. [Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story] Reference
Their constant tendency is to increase in virulence and inveteracy. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Facts for Old and Young] Reference
The inveteracy of this custom may be inferred from the following incident. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
The impudence, the inveteracy of that fellow, is astonishing -- no silencing him. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 08] Reference
These fight with great inveteracy, and endeavour to seize each other by the tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
"I forgive your inveteracy," said Major Bridgenorth, "on account of your prejudices.". From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
Pursued with persistent inveteracy, I cut off my hair, I disguised myself as a woodman. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference
The narration of one or two cases may be useful, as showing the inveteracy of the disease. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
And this, as it is the cause, so we must in some measure consider it as the excuse of her inveteracy. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference
The inveteracy of opposition to the administration of Mr. Adams was systematic, violent, and unprincipled. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.] Reference
Their inveteracy, however, was principally directed against the Roman commerce, and the Romans themselves. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference
But there was an inveteracy in the gale which had driven us down to this part that bore heavily upon our spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
The extent and inveteracy of the disease, I well knew; but the suitability of the remedy had never been set before me. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain] Reference
It likewise appears, that the preceding butchery was followed up with a disposition of peculiar inveteracy and barbarity. From Wordnik.com. [A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.] Reference
There is an inveteracy of purpose, a sincerity of feeling, which never relaxes or grows vapid, in whatever they do or say. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
He has brought back the doctrines of Calvinism in all their inveteracy, and relaxed the inveteracy of his northern accents. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
The terms however not proving satisfactory, each again retired to his arms and renewed the contest with their former inveteracy. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
I found my right honourable friend engaged by the affairs of a great empire, and struggling with the inveteracy of a fatal disease. From Wordnik.com. [English Men of Letters: Crabbe] Reference
Patience was his weapon and support, so he named his object with an air of inveteracy in tranquillity they were for his wife to wear. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
Paris inveteracy renewed -- the so-prized custom of nine years before, when he still believed in results from his fond frequentation of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Finer Grain] Reference
He equally underrated the inveteracy of the dislike, and the degree of additional suspicion which his measures of self-defence would awaken. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
They were in a word alternate and incompatible; they missed each other with an inveteracy that could be explained only by its being preconcerted. From Wordnik.com. [Embarrassments] Reference
This, however, he would by no means allow; and as he called her persisting in the right, obstinacy, he began to hate her with no small inveteracy. From Wordnik.com. [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
Not for the excellence of her play; rather for the inveteracy and size of her losses and the unconcerned cheerfulness with which she defrayed them. From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
She was well aware of our matron's inveteracy against her and her establishment, and she resented it as a placeman resents the efforts of a radical. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ronan's Well] Reference
I remember even having taken for granted with this fond inveteracy that no one of these pregnant themes was likely to prove under the test more full of matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
There was something perverse in the inveteracy with which she avoided him; his unquenchable rancour discovered an intention where there was certainly no appearance of one. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2] Reference
Without premeditation, to her own surprise, and indeed terror, she had given vent, for once, to the inveteracy of her resentment, cherished against this kinsman for thirty years. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
The term eczema is now applied very generally to eruptions of all kinds that depend on internal disorders or constitutional conditions and that tend to recurrences and inveteracy. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
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