From this hour there was no serious attempt at recalcitration on her part.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

We have ourselves been caned severely in passing through a wood by the rebound, the recalcitration we may call it, of elastic branches which we had displaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference

The recalcitration of Austria, which had reached the point of threatening war if Parma were joined to Piedmont, contained the germs of her dissolution as an Italian power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cavour]

Inwardly chuckling that these symptoms of recalcitration had not taken place until the fair malcontent was, as he mentally termed it, under his thumb, Archibald coolly replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

And yet I think that one cannot read Addison's praises without a certain recalcitration, like that which one feels in the case of the model boy who wins all the prizes, including that for good conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series] Reference

A will of her own; and her recalcitration was assisted by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

Inwardly chuckling that these symptoms of recalcitration had not taken place until the fair malcontent was, as he mentally termed it, under his thumb, Archibald coolly replied, “That the hills were none of his making, nor did he know how to mend them; but as to lodging, they would soon be in a house of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

She paused on the staircase trembling, and thinking between the thrills how very far would have been the conduct of her poor slighted self from proud recalcitration had Mr. Julian’s gentle request been addressed to her instead of to Ethelberta; and she went some way in the painful discovery of how much more tantalizing it was to watch an envied situation that was held by another than to be out of sight of it altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference