Obstinately

Examples

• I don't see no occasion for nothin' o' the kind, Sir,' replied Mr. Weller obstinately. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He entertained the notion of making the use of gas and coke compulsory, by levying a tax on all who obstinately refused to adopt what would be so much to their own advantage. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Coketown, sir,' said Bounderby, obstinately taking a chair, 'is not the kind of place you have been accustomed to. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• How many suspicions of selfishness and indifference had she to encounter and obstinately overcome. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Those who are not of this world can do little else to arrest the errors of the obstinately worldly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You may meet with worse enemies than the savage beasts of Africa, replied the Rector obstinately. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• With that apology, the lawyer had gone back to his own room, and had immersed himself obstinately in his black bag. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She never quarrelled, she never took offence; she only kept a certain distance, obstinately and civilly, between the rest of them and herself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mere boasting, Mr. Franklin, returned the old man obstinately. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My thoughts went back again obstinately to the birthday dinner. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Molly, said Mr. Jaggers, not looking at her, but obstinately looking at the opposite side of the room, let them see both your wrists. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I'll consider that,' said Mr Boffin, obstinately, 'at my convenience, and not at yours. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The steamer,' said Mr Riderhood, obstinately, 'run me down and drownded of me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They were all obstinately of opinion that the poor girl had stolen the Moonstone, and that she had destroyed herself in terror of being found out. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Instead of looking up at us in her usual straightforward way, she sat close at the table, and kept her eyes fixed obstinately on an open book. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The prejudiced public had stood out against it obstinately. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The moment he saw me, he pulled out the pocket-book and pencil, and obstinately insisted on taking notes of everything that I said to him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was ready to stifle with vexation, and obstinately would not promise to row. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She persisted just as obstinately on her side. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He still seemed to me most absurd when he obstinately doubted, and desponded about his power to win in the end Miss Fanshawe's preference. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I had made up my mind it was certainly worth $25,000, if it ever amounted to anything for central-station work, so that was the sum I had in mind to stick to and get--obstinately. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Irish found the priest congenial, and resisted the Reformation obstinately and bitterly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are just the suspicions that cling the most obstinately, because they lie in people's inclination and can never be disproved. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was only his mistress's hand whose touch gave him pleasure; to all others he showed himself obstinately insensible. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• What could he say, since what had got obstinately uppermost in his mind was the passionate love for her which he forbade himself to utter? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Why so obstinately refuse my visits? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He remained obstinately monotheistic; he would have none other gods but the one true God. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Betteredge obstinately declined to listen to any solution of the difficulty, without first referring it to my sanction and approval. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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