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pertinacious
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synonyms: obdurate, intractable, contumacious, intransigent, implacable ???
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Definition:tenacious; stubborn; obstinate
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"This way, your excellency, please. Your excellency won't be disturbed here," said a particularly pertinacious, white-headed old Tatar with immense hips and coat-tails gaping widely behind.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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as Ahab glided over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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it was so tiresomely pertinacious that I resolved on requesting leave to go to Wuthering Heights, and assist in the last duties to the dead.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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But in the end Buck's pertinacity was rewarded;
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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He was a pert, invincible questioner, pushing his inquiries with equal pertinacity and indiscretion; he had been observed, when he took a letter to the post, to weigh it in his hand, to turn it over and over, and to study the address with care
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Suicide Club
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I could not comprehend why there were three state-rooms for these four persons.[...] and I confess, with shame, that I busied myself in a variety of ill-bred and preposterous conjectures about this matter of the supernumerary state-room. It was no business of mine, to be sure, but with none the less pertinacity did I occupy myself in attempts to resolve the enigma.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Oblong Box (1844)
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