I don't know why or how it is; but since I have known of her husband's death, my old tenderness for her seems to cling to me more
obstinately than ever.
Their information, however, was scoffed at by some of the party, who were
obstinately bent on embarkation, but was confirmed by the exploring party, who returned after several days' absence.
How came you to persist so
obstinately in a falsehood?"
When he had finished, Ben Weatherstaff was standing quite still with his jaws set
obstinately but with a disturbed look in his eyes fixed on Colin.
And every morning, perched on our stays, rows of these birds were seen; and spite of our hootings, for a long time
obstinately clung to the hemp, as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a thing appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roosting-place for their homeless selves.
Well, now that I had found the boat, you would have thought I had had enough of truantry for once, but in the meantime I had taken another notion and become so
obstinately fond of it that I would have carried it out, I believe, in the teeth of Captain Smollett himself.
In vain he sat before paper, attending on inspiration; that heavenly nymph, beyond suggesting the words 'my dear father,' remained
obstinately silent; and presently John would crumple up the sheet and decide, as soon as he had 'a good chance,' to carry the money home in person.
What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real interests, have left them in the background and have rushed headlong on another path, to meet peril and danger, compelled to this course by nobody and by nothing, but, as it were, simply disliking the beaten track, and have
obstinately, wilfully, struck out another difficult, absurd way, seeking it almost in the darkness.
Raoul, therefore, had, in compliance with the wish of his father, served
obstinately and passively the fortunes of Louis XIV., in spite of the tergiversations which were endemic, and, it might be said, inevitable, at that period.
One of the Frenchmen, with the politeness characteristic of his countrymen, addressed the
obstinately taciturn Rostov, saying that the latter had probably come to Tilsit to see the Emperor.
Ellmother
obstinately asserted, "you can't possibly know who it was!
"Why, to be sure, it'll start from the bottom and go up and go up, and come out so," the carpenter said
obstinately and convincingly.