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. From LearnThat.org. [Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)]
Adjective : a pertinacious salesman from whom I could not escape. From Dictionary.com.
Home Rule politicians are talkative and pertinacious. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
For we know how pertinacious and rebellious is superstition. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
Most unwilling was that guest, most pertinacious that mariner. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
"You hain't opened court yet," persisted the pertinacious Tom. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
The Utmost subtlety of Wit, and all the labours of pertinacious. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 9, includes notes and draft essay, 1 - 11 February 1763, [June - July 1763]] Reference
While Grant was engaged in his pertinacious failures to flank Lee. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Somehow she was unusually pertinacious; but I parried her inquiries. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Again they laughed at the child's pertinacious fancy for a night-ramble. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
The anger of a Frenchman is more violent, that of an Englishman more pertinacious. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827] Reference
"But they are down on the chart," broke in a pertinacious matter-of-fact body beside us. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
He studied with pertinacious constancy, seldom enjoying the salutary relaxations of society. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
A more pertinacious piece of cast-iron never contended against the prowess of the Corinthian!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841] Reference
Of all working systems, the Mind seems most pertinacious in concealing the method of its operations. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
There is nothing so pertinacious, so unrelenting, and so difficult to change, as an aristocratical body. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Moreover, if these tactics failed, the pace at which Star goes would easily baffle any pertinacious pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
I recollect being highly amused by the pertinacious ingenuity with which he defended his own view of the case. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
Lady Chetwynde deep enough to inspire so pertinacious a search, so that the difficulty did not consist in this. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Not to be baffled, the pertinacious boy followed the carriage on foot, and after a considerable time overtook it. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference
Nicholls (1817-1906), who had long been a pertinacious suitor for her hand but had been discouraged by Mr Brontë. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
But the constant and pertinacious maliciousness of the overseer, and my own weakness, eventually brought me to grief. From Wordnik.com. [Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson] Reference
I was meditating an excuse for not accompanying my pertinacious and unscrupulous acquaintance on his cruise against the Frankfort. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
He was then let down, and if he was still pertinacious, the touchstone was again tried, until he either confessed or accused others. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation] Reference
He was constant and pertinacious in whatsoever he resolved to do, and not to be wearied by any pains that were necessary to that end. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Last Friday the ever pertinacious Ms. Sparky scooped everyone by reporting that according to a recent memo from Col. Nolan of the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [David Isenberg: You Have 20 Days to Get Out of Town] Reference
Jeremy Collier, 1726, the pertinacious non-juror, who repressed the immoralities of the stage; Ned Ward, author of the London Spy, 1731. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832] Reference
The instance to which all this is preliminary, is the pertinacious hold which the belief in a human absolving power retains upon mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
But so lukewarm had the poor white become, that his song had to be sung with pertinacious fervor to make him do more than pause to listen. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
A pertinacious adherence unto corrupt traditions and inveterate errors quite shuts up the way unto all wisdom and spiritual understanding. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Can any candid thinker analyze these results and then believe Grant a strategist -- a great soldier -- anything but a pertinacious fighter?. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Moreover, in view of Abdul's undoubted ability, he probably discovered for himself its efficacy as a weapon of reprisal when hard pressed by pertinacious and inquisitive. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
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