obstinacy

• But, what is still worse, this indulgence produces an obstinacy which is of more consequence as the child grows up. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
• May the devil reward you in hell for your obstinacy, and my dying agonies So help me God the Lord Dies THE MAN (_throwing away his sword_). —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• They were angry with us for our obstinacy, as they called it, and mocked us and ridiculed the most sacred things. —  The Promised Land
• In the old days she had known it--had believed it was his dogged "obstinacy"--but she knew the hopelessness of opposing it. —  Clarence
• "I suppose I was wrong, for my father had left all the management of my affairs in his brother-in-law's hands Why, you said your uncle's hands just now Yes, Punch; in my mother's brother's hands, so he was my uncle Well, go on And I had been begging him to alter his plans Yes, and let you go back to the school And I suppose he was tired out with what he called my obstinacy, and he told me that if ever I dared to mention the army again he would give me a sound flogging And you up and said you would like to catch him at it?" —  !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War

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