But the landlady had the pertinacity and also the cunning to demand what she needed. From LearnThat.org.
I object to something which is conceited and small-minded; but which also has that kind of pertinacity which always belongs to lunatics. From Wordnik.com. [The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian] Reference
She had the kind of pertinacity that sever admits being out of depth, the happy buoyancy that does not require to feel the bottom under one's feet. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
The intruder stuck to his guns with respectful pertinacity. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
By pertinacity and vanity in lying, she hit the mark at last. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
He looked at her with a smile of amusement at her pertinacity. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Have a purpose, and adhere to it with good-humored pertinacity. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
You cannot help feeling vexed at the pertinacity with which the. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Whig principles of Shelburne and the skill and pertinacity of the three. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
"Well, I do wish so, all the same," said she, with feminine pertinacity. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
He half resented the pertinacity with which she seemed to brood upon it. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Her pertinacity in staying induced Mrs. Lisle to throw off all restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
The Governor-in-Chief was, however, not by any means pleased with the pertinacity of the Assembly. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
I bought a beetle or two, and then my merchant, with strange pertinacity, returned to the bull-frog. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
His services were, however, required, and his pertinacity in retaining our friendship was not so unwelcome. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
Lorischen would say spitefully, on the widow seeking to excuse the little man's pertinacity in visiting her. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Indeed, he will lie you into the most hopeless suit, and with equal pertinacity lie you out of the very best. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Then he proceeded to discourse of politics, taking the opposite side to Cilley, and arguing with much pertinacity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
"Thank you very much, Admiral, but I must really say ` no 'again," rejoined Dad, touched by his kindly pertinacity. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
With a pertinacity most exasperating to tyrants and infidels, but most welcome to the friends of human rights, Northern. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
This incident leads me to speak of the pertinacity of our weasels in hunting their prey, say a hare, as above, or a rabbit. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Indeed, Mr. McArthur says, one of these knights of the goose, not long since, had the pertinacity to imagine himself a great General. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
He was certainly a man to be proud of, and his admirers insisted with great pertinacity that he should now be the nominee for governor. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
"No, my good fellow; I never had the honor of meeting Mr. John Burrill before," replied Doctor Heath, smiling at the man's pertinacity. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Mrs. Vint went back to the kitchen discomfited; but, with quiet pertinacity, she brought Thomas Leicester into the parlor, pack and all. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
What Lil Artha lacked in actual experience, he partly made up for in his pertinacity, as well as his constant practice along these lines. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference
"I must take the liberty, however, of warning that lady, sir," said Mr. Shanks, with the pertinacity of a parrot, which he so greatly resembled. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The hopelessness of the contest on the part of the executive, and the pertinacity with which it has been waged, have given it a mock-heroic character. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
The thing worried her a little, nagging at the back of her mind with the pertinacity common to any little unexplained incident that has caught one's attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Sam Lee had bade her good-bye and had seemed sorry to leave, notwithstanding which, however, he refused, with true Chinese pertinacity, to assume the new duties. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
There was some fighting for three days -- Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, last -- the enemy disputing our advance with pertinacity wherever the ground favored them. From Wordnik.com. [Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro (North Carolina) expedition, December, 1862] Reference
He was a sullen, turbulent-looking fellow; and his counsel, an Old Bailey lawyer, was inquiring, with a pertinacity that astonished while it amused me, about the dirt in a comb. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
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