He struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a pertinacious salesman from whom I could not escape. From Dictionary.com.
The landlady's youngest daughter, an officious little girl of about twelve, volunteered as guide, and, being rejected, followed us pertinaciously from a distance. From Wordnik.com. [Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys] Reference
"Without much dreaming?" continued the other, pertinaciously. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850] Reference
Why, if they must err, do they err so pertinaciously in one direction?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
But Mr. Noyse pertinaciously denied to have misrepresented my statements. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Enemies of True Republicanism] Reference
These persons were also continually and pertinaciously importunate that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
It had all gone against him continuously, pertinaciously, and to no purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
Ferdinand and Isabella, though Maximilian clung pertinaciously to his protégé. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Poor indemnity for natural rights of self-agency so pertinaciously, so insultingly denied!. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
So she began to walk slowly after him, in the direction he had gone, slowly, pertinaciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Fox] Reference
“I will send for Père Silas: on the spot I will send for him,” she threatened pertinaciously. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
In whatever position I placed the box the needle pertinaciously returned to this unexpected quarter. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
As the Americans still pertinaciously kept in the woods, the 13th could not, by any possibility, charge. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Musing on the fair apparition that thus pertinaciously intruded upon him, the young lawyer dressed himself. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Dr. Orkborne, piqued by this transfer, sullenly followed, and now gave to her, pertinaciously, his undivided attention. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
It was now Thursday, the middle of the second week, and the fog had clung pertinaciously around him almost all that time. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
'Is he your boyfriend?' enquired Iannis pertinaciously, having had this same proposition denied repeatedly at every asking. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
Until within the last two or three years, he pertinaciously adhered to the old style in his observance of these festivities. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
That gentleman stuck to him pertinaciously, giving him directions which, at the spur of the moment, he hardly knew how not to obey. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
We were much puzzled, a few weeks since, by a tantalising and unintelligible paragraph, pertinaciously reiterated in the London newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
We do not find the Germans pertinaciously seeking to bring into disrepute the efforts now being made to extend their colonial possessions; the. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
"You might find companions down here," she said, pertinaciously, "people suited to your position -- old friends of your father's, perhaps ----". From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
It was something even more intense than despair that I then observed upon the countenance of the singular being I had watched so pertinaciously. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
The application of it is generally intelligible enough; being directed against those who pertinaciously adhere to their own system of religious faith. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850] Reference
When a man will do this pertinaciously, and when his selected enemy is wealthy and of high standing, he will generally succeed in getting a party round him. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
The faint spiritual double which I found lurking behind his steel and iron he either solidified with his metallic touch or pertinaciously denied its existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Though the bishop had so pertinaciously insisted on giving way to his wife in the matter of the hospital, Mr. Slope did not think it necessary to abandon his object. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
He does not quarrel with his wife; and though he has the best cause, yet he does not pertinaciously defend it, but voluntarily dismisses the wife who had been given him. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Piracy was always distinctly prohibited in the commercial treaties of the African States; nevertheless piracy went on, and most pertinaciously on the part of the Christians. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
But what availed it that the judge stood firm by the statute, when juries as pertinaciously backed the sentiment of the world and refused the law permission to take its course?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
I have no doubt but what he expected fully to have taken them in a net; and he certainly would have succeeded had we pertinaciously persisted in the plan of defending the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
It is, however, a curious feature in the change, that at no previous time have the titles of gentleman and lady been so universally and pertinaciously assumed as at the present. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
His hair is decidedly too dingy a red to be called, even by the utmost stretch of courtesy, auburn; dry, coarse, and pertinaciously obstinate in its resistance to the civilizing efforts of comb and brush. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
"But," said Lilly, who always stuck pertinaciously to her text, "I have read it in a book, that they comb their long, sea-green hair, and sing all the time so beautifully, that men jump into the sea after them.". From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
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