But there still clung to her what I fear we must call a perverseness of obstinacy. From Wordnik.com. [Can you forgive her?] Reference
I fear we must call a perverseness of obstinacy, a desire to maintain the resolution she had made, -- a wish that she might be allowed to undergo the punishment she had deserved. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
They have simply taken on this form of perverseness. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
This is simple perverseness, of the meanest variety. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
This variety of perverseness seems very inexplicable. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
And trust in perverseness and crookedness and rely thereon. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference
Tim attended, but an imp of perverseness seemed to rule him. From Wordnik.com. [Don Strong, Patrol Leader] Reference
Moreover, the evil is immensely aggravated by their perverseness. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
If they fail through filial obstinacy and perverseness, they draw. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
But the perverseness of which we are now speaking has a different origin. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
One day, in the perverseness of youth, I spoke with asperity to my mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
However, such influences are uncertain, partaking of childish perverseness. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
She was altogether charming in these days in spite of her perverseness, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
For her to have become a bigot would have been a very miracle of perverseness. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
There is another exhibition of perverseness which we sometimes see in families. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
With the perverseness of nature, the less water one has the thirstier one becomes. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
There is rebellion and perverseness mingled with the helplessness and ignorance and sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
Sneerwell, and the set she meets at her house, encourage the perverseness of her disposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
At starting, I must give perverseness a somewhat broader meaning than that thus far indicated. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
To be sure, there is nothing boys won't do; their equals for perverseness don't walk the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina] Reference
But it is not from the ambition or the perverseness of the President that Mexico has much to fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
It is here that we see some of the strangest cases of perverseness that it is possible to conceive. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
When he becomes wearied of my perverseness and extortion, I will dismiss him, and seek another victim. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
With the perverseness of age she would try to grope her way about, and more than once had she wandered into danger. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
Gratitude to you, my dearest Lady, shall conquer this perverseness; -- even now my heart overflows like a swoln river. From Wordnik.com. [Barford Abbey] Reference
And by the side of all this He will exhibit our conduct toward Him -- our ingratitude, our disobedience, our perverseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
Of those who should know them, no small proportion habitually, from thoughtlessness or perverseness, neglect their observance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
There is a certain perverseness about it, a determination to do just what one is told not to do, that affects me most agreeably. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
But should they not return the proper civilities, they should, by no manner of means, be suffered to behave with such perverseness. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
There are some kinds of perverseness which impress one not altogether unpleasantly, but this affects a man with equal anger and disgust. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Of the perverseness of partisanship in politics much is written, and my pen need not dip into it; but there is a perverseness exhibited by. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
During her stay at Lizerolles, which her perverseness, her resentment, and a repugnance founded on instincts of delicacy, had made her prefer to. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I might have known it -- perhaps I did know it, in spite of my wilful perverseness in denying it to myself, but I had not imagined it to be like this. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
It is a principle which should always be carefully distinguished from perverseness, in all our dealings with young and old, and in all our estimates of human character. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
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