How To Use Obstinate In A Sentence

Just look at that, now; you too are getting obstinate and huffish. The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
To remove a conviction so generally adopted, Quentin easily saw was impossible — nay, that any attempt to undeceive men so obstinately prepossessed in their belief, would be attended with personal risk, which, in this case, he saw little use of incurring. Quentin Durward
Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father's meekness and her mother's absence.
Enzymes, bacteria, acids and other strange brews have been offered as magic bullets for obstinate algae.
They are generally so refractory, self-conceited, obstinate, so firmly addicted to that religion in which they have been bred and brought up, that no persuasion, no terror, no persecution, can divert them. Anatomy of Melancholy

Briefly, in this man of culture and refinement, in whose own mysterious life one might perhaps have found various crimes but not a single act of base improbity, one could divine an implacable, obstinate theoretician, who was resolved to set the world ablaze for the triumph of his ideas. The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete
Obstinate impenitence is the grossest self-murder. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The clamor of controversy sometimes provoked the emperor to exclaim, “Hear me! the Franks have heard me, and the Alemanni;” but he soon discovered that he was now engaged with more obstinate and implacable enemies; and though he exerted the powers of oratory to persuade them to live in concord, or at least in peace, he was perfectly satisfied, before he dismissed them from his presence, that he had nothing to dread from the union of the Christians. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Big (sometimes a foot across) and obstinately colorful (some are orange, some are purple; no one knows why), the sea star is usually found in a rockfissure sprawled like a discarded toy.
benignity" of his expression, and how in him it seemed that "great strength of character and obstinate determination were united with extreme gentleness of disposition and with absolute tenderness towards all about him. Abraham Lincoln
Well, it's the earliest images - of independence and freedom, particularly - that do live obstinately on, despite the blessing and the bludgeoning of life's fullness.
But he again affirms, in the same chapter, “That the justice of God is twofold: that one kind he always uses when he punishes abandonedly wicked and obstinate sinners, sometimes, according to his law; the other kind, when he punishes sinners neither obstinate nor altogether desperate, but whose repentance is not expected.” A Dissertation on Divine Justice
They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
They added to do evil (so the Chaldee paraphrase expounds it); they were old in adulteries, and obstinate. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
A lady at Paris, Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete. The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency
Hereby the community or whole body of the faithful, even to the meanest member, are vested from Christ with full power and authority actually to discharge and execute all acts of order and jurisdiction without exception: e.g. To preach the word authoritatively, dispense the sacraments, ordain their officers, admonish offenders, excommunicate the obstinate and incorrigible, and absolve the penitent. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
The blunt instrument obstinately refused to reveal itself and he doubted if there were any more revelations to be got out of anybody.
That they are obstinate and pertinacious is also a cheap supposal, taken up without the price of a proof. The Sermons of John Owen
Then, when I stand up for myself (maybe not always in the best of situations), or when I act stubborn and obstinate, I fight with people.
Those words of my New Hampshire neighbor seem to mock my trivial but obstinate frustration.
First, Methods and means of reformation had been tried in vain (v. 13): In thy filthiness is lewdness; thou hast become obstinate and impudent in it; thou hast got a habit of it, which is confirmed by frequent acts. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
At the same time, that does not mean that a medical man can obstinately and pig-headedly carry on with some old technique if it has been proved to be contrary to what is really substantially the whole of informed medical opinion’.
The condition of obstinate denial or doubt is met, from the theological point of view, when there is the existence of an objective situation of sin that endures in time and which the will of the individual member of the faithful does not bring to an end, no other requirements attitude of defiance, propr warning, etc. being necessary to establish the fundamental gravity of the situation in the Church. John Kerry, Excommunicated?
There was a giant, fluffy, angel food cake decorated with real rose petals; there was a roast honeyed duck, which Anna obstinately refused to touch, but which Lara and her aunts enjoyed immensely.
Someone who had been 'a remarkably undogmatic man, unassuming and even diffident in manner' became obstinate in the extreme.
Formal, exact and obstinate, he was also cold, suspicious, touchy and tactless.
A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scalelike affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly noninfective. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
91 The light brigantines of the Greeks were scattered in ignominious flight: the nine castles of the Venetians maintained a more obstinate conflict; seven were sunk, two were taken; two thousand five hundred captives implored in vain the mercy of the victor; and the daughter of Alexius deplores the loss of thirteen thousand of his subjects or allies. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Many young men are as obstinate, and as curious in their choice, as tyrannically proud, insulting, deceitful, false-hearted, as irrefragable and peevish on the other side; Narcissus-like, Anatomy of Melancholy
A great babblement went across the open space — a babblement amidst which the gongs of the trams, ploughing their obstinate way through the mass, rose like red poppies amidst corn. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
Mr. LISLEVAND: Well, this is all music based on what we call basso spinato (ph), obstinate (ph) basses. Rolf Lislevand, Improvising with 'Nuove Musiche'
What the rationalist calls nonentity is the substrate and locus of all ideas, having the obstinate reality of matter, the crushing irrationality of existence itself; and one who attempts to override it becomes to that extent an irrelevant rhapsodist, dealing with thin after-images of being. The Life of Reason
The movie is a study in intolerance, though less the big, genocidal brand than the petty, obstinate kind that occurs in situations where a man sets himself apart from his community.
For is not that which is a savour of life to some, that is, to those that are within the purpose of God's love, and whom he intends effectually to call, and to convert to himself; I say, is not the same termed a savour of death to others? that is, to the obstinate and impenitent, and such as God leaves to themselves. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
Any obstinate clinging to outworn doctrines, whether of religion or politics or morality or of science, are equally damning and equally damnable. Dana Ullman: Disinformation on Homeopathy: Two Leading Sources
But, as the obstinate refusers show, it is possible to opt out of particular activities because others will happily take them on.
You're an obstinate man," she said. "Is that a criticism," I said, "or just an observation?".
He affirmed that the juries were the most singularly obtuse and obstinate bodies he had ever encountered; and that the courts were, beyond all question, the most incurably opinionated tribunals that ever were formed. Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
But before both the Bird - and Worm-men began their journey, the Empress commanded the Bearmen to view through their Telescopes what Towns and Cities those were that would not submit; and having a full information thereof, she instructed the Bird - and Bear-men what Towns they should begin withal; in the mean while she sent to all the Princes and soveraigns of those Nations, to let them know that she would give them a proof of her Power, and check their Obstinacies by burning some of their smaller Towns; and if they continued still in their Obstinate Resolutions, that she would convert their smaller Loss into a Total Ruin. she also commanded her Bird-men to make their flight at night, lest they be perceived. The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
You're an obstinate man," she said. "Is that a criticism," I said, "or just an observation?".
Gibsons fever still continues obstinate tho 'not verry high; we gave him a dose of Dr. Rushes pills which in maney instancis I have found extreamly effecasious in fevers which are in any measure caused by the presence of boil. the niter has produced a perfuse perspiration this evening and the pils opperated late at night his feaver after which abated almost intirely and he had Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
Big (sometimes a foot across) and obstinately colorful (some are orange, some are purple; no one knows why), the sea star is usually found in a rockfissure sprawled like a discarded toy.
A defendant can combat an obstinate refusal even to consider compromise by a shrewd payment into court, or a Calderbank offer.
The third, a long - legged creature, was more obstinate and agile.
I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool
The blunt instrument obstinately refused to reveal itself and he doubted if there were any more revelations to be got out of anybody.
Indeed, ‘Anglo-Saxon’ continuity in dismissive irritation is as tenacious as French continuity in obstinate and distinctive ambition.
You heard what Belinda said to me on the courts the other day-well I was sore and angry about it, and I just got all obstinate and thought Miss Roberts caught one or two of the winks and pounced on the winkers. Summer Term At St Clare's
Then began an obstinate struggle, not like the other fight with the Germans and Tories; but a running fight on the hills and plains, just the kind of skrimmage in which a hundred Green Mountain Boys were worth double their number of redcoats. The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773
He obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict.
an obstinate child with a violent temper
You would assuredly repent of your temerity," said the obstinate contagionist. Rattlin the Reefer
The outcome also satisfied the public sense of outrage at an obstinate governmental bureaucracy and at an injustice eventually righted.
On these accounts it is that I find it impossible to banish the thought of death when I am walking alone in the endless days of summer; and any particular death, if not actually more affecting, at least haunts my mind more obstinately and besiegingly in that season. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
Oh, I have heard of that smaik," said the Scotch merchant, interrupting him; "it is he whom your principal, like an obstinate auld fule, wad make Rob Roy — Complete
Her multi-dimensional character Denise is burdened with dreadfully stereotypical parents: the obstinate dad who wants her only to be a concert pianist, and the demure, subservient mom who finally speaks her mind at the totally expected moment. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
I dealt with her as I dealt with my own mother, who could also be obstinate and single-minded, I did my best to avoid telling Kay things I knew she did not want to hear.
This would go a long way to reduce some of our citizens' obstinate dependence on the weekly collection of waste.
In his prose he becomes a powerful presence, a personality with obstinate opinions and sardonic asides.
Children can be notoriously careless with their glasses or obstinately refuse to wear them.
Still, his obstinate moral intuitions may have been a virtue in this crisis.
Parents should back off when their teen is moody - teenagers very often don't even know the reason for their mood change and it can go from sad to happy, from obstinate to cooperative within a short time.
Formal, exact and obstinate, he was also cold, suspicious, touchy and tactless.
Medcroft's unspeakable checked suit; and the eyeglass was a much more obstinate, untractable thing than he had even suspected it could be. The Husbands of Edith
My uncle Walter is as obstinate as they come.
This character was so obstinate and stubborn, saying no and refusing to obey. Times, Sunday Times
Despite his obstinate attitude, he beckoned for Eva and Sofia to accompany him.
He was increasingly criticized for his autocratic and obstinate style of leadership.
He pressed the emperor to call Theophilus to a legal synod: but that obstinate persecutor alleged that he could not return without danger of his life. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Gibsons fever Still Continues obstinate tho not verry high; we gave him a dose of Dr. Rushes pills which in maney instancis I have found extreamly efficasious in fevers which are in any measure Caused by the presence of boil. the niter has produced a perfuse perspiration this evening and the pils opperated late at night his feaver after which abated almost intirely and he had a good nights rest. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
You can have really strong, obstinate opinions, so long as your facts are true, you're OK.
To her, prudence was the true method of making your fortune; good management consisted in filling your granaries with wheat, rye, and flax, and waiting for a rise at the risk of being called a monopolist, and clinging to those grain-sacks obstinately. Beatrix
The other America, whether montagnard or prairie, is solidly continental and landlocked, its tap roots of obstinate self-belief buried deep beneath the bluegrass and the high corn.
He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
It may be possible to chip away at recalcitrant citizens by portraying the obstinate allies as mischievous or worse.
Wherfore seinge the papistes do bothe thincke and teache otherwise in this matier then the holie scripture dothe teache/and do defend their errour with an obstinate mynde they are heretikes. A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
While once children were called stupid, lazy, naughty or obstinate, now we have many syndromes and disorders - all still imperfectly understood - that medicalise their behaviour.
My words fell out in the voice I used at the palace, to instruct an obstinate official of one region or other, or to take the delegates in hand.
The square of Mars to Saturn induce him to be obstinate and a little willful, a tincture of malice remaining in him.
He was familiar with her obstinate behaviour, and knew that any attempt to dissuade her from doing what she wanted would only invoke her anger.
Cue the familiar remedies of our age—targeted management training, subsidized daycare, flexitime—all designed to give women more hours and inclination to pursue what too many of them still obstinately count as their second-highest priority. What Women Want
He had, when young for English public life, attained to high office; but -- partly from a great distaste to the drudgery of administration; partly from a pride of temperament, which unfitted him for the subordination that a Cabinet owes to its chief; partly, also, from a not uncommon kind of epicurean philosophy, at once joyous and cynical, which sought the pleasures of life and held very cheap its honours -- he had obstinately declined to re-enter office, and only spoke on rare occasions. Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04
This conversation made it very clear who was puffed up with pride and obstinately trying to impose his will on others, and who was trying to be reasonable and accommodating.
The feature provides the workaround for its obstinate blocking of incoming packets, in some cases.
A small flare of obstinate anger reared up in her.
How do you deal with an obstinate teenager who always says she isn't hungry?
She hid much of what he was doing, his reclusiveness and his obsessive, obstinate behaviour. The Sun
There is the physical manufacture of false documents, which is forgery in the strict sense; there is the false attribution of real documents, which then become 'pseudepigrapha'; and there is the invocation and exploitation of invisible documents, which, if they remain obstinately invisible, are designated as 'ghosts.' The Uses of Fakery
With Sen. John McCain securely closing the door on his presidential ambitions, Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair is out with a profile of the man whose 2008 presidential loss has come to define him as bitter and obstinate. The Real McCain, A Shape-Shifter And Self-Preservationist: Vanity Fair
But the present day was so remarkably still that there seemed to the spectators no excuse for the awkwardness of the artificers; and when a large gap in the back of the awning was still visible, from the obstinate refusal of one part of the velaria to ally itself with the rest, the murmurs of discontent were loud and general. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils.
At the outset, the girl obstinately prevaricated, but when she eventually heard that lady Feng intended to take a red-hot branding-iron and burn her mouth with, she at last sobbingly spoke out. Hung Lou Meng
As anticipated, the resumed negotiations failed to bring about a substantial breakthrough because both Pyongyang and Washington did not budge from their obstinate positions.
Yet an obstinate remnant still adhered to the religion and liberty of their ancestors, and the war of Honain derived a proper appellation from the idols, whom Mahomet had vowed to destroy, and whom the confederates of Tayef had sworn to defend. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The slant-eyed boy took a little longer, but showed the same obstinate behavior and the sheriff had to discipline him accordingly.
They retain their anger for a long time and are obstinate in their opinions.
A defendant can combat an obstinate refusal even to consider compromise by a shrewd payment into court, or a Calderbank offer.
A staunch anti-imperialist, he made no secret of his sympathy for the Annamese, and he obstinately inserted his political views into his dispatches. A Covert Affair
Nevertheless, Bertram looked a little more after his friend, and disturbing the monsignore, who was at breakfast with Lothair one morning, Bertram obstinately outstayed the priest, and then said: "I tell you what, old fellow, you are rather hippish; I wish you were in the House of Commons. Lothair
Mr. Pinchin could understand French, though he spoke it but indifferently; but he, being fairly Primed, and in one of his Obstinate Moods, musters up his best parleyvoo, and tells the Ancient with the Golden Key (and I saw that he had another one hung round his neck by a parcel chain, and conjectured him to be a High Chamberlain at least) to go to the Devil. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
Whenever sickness, vomiting, and obstinate costiveness give reason to suspect an obstruction of the bowels, all those places where ruptures usually happen ought carefully to be examined.
I, for my part, shall be compelled after all, and in spite of obstinate resistance, to use the baths of Aix-la-Chapelle, which is very unpleasant to me. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
Even within the limits of the same genus, we meet with this same difference; for instance, the many species of Nicotiana have been more largely crossed than the species of almost any other genus; but Gärtner found that N. acuminata, which is not a particularly distinct species, obstinately failed to fertilise, or to be fertilised by no less than eight other species of Nicotiana. IX. Hybridism. Laws Governing the Sterility of First Crosses and of Hybrids
He is a man who obstinately refuses to believe the most solidly-established facts in favor of religion, and yet, with blind credulity, greedily swallows the most absurd falsehoods uttered _against religion_. Public School Education
Was it nature or art that had intenerated that great courage of his, so full, so obstinate against pain and death and poverty, to such an extreme degree of sweetness and compassion? The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 14
Under your watch, the Bush aficionada obstinately challenged the patriotism of the voices of America's watchmen. "An Open Letter To Mr. Bush"
He obstinately refused to consider the future.
She was opinionated and obstinate, and Charles soon found he had nothing to worry about.
It seemed as though some resolution were ripening within him, which he was himself ashamed of, but which he was gradually getting used to; one single thought kept obstinately and undeviatingly moving up closer and closer, one single image stood out more and more distinctly, and under the burning weight of heavy drunkenness the angry irritation was replaced by a feeling of ferocity in his heart, and a vindictive smile appeared on his lips. A Sportsman's Sketches
She continued to rip off the obstinate gnashing steel contraption to no avail.
Of the obstinate effort to bring about an armed intervention, on the lines marked out by Russells letter to Palmerston from Gotha, 17 September, 1862, nothing could be said beyond Gladstones plea in excuse for his speech in pursuance of the same effort, that it was the most singular and palpable error, the least excusable, a mistake of incredible grossness, which passed defence; but while Gladstone threw himself on the mercy of the public for his speech, he attempted no excuse for Lord Russell who led him into the incredible grossness of announcing the Foreign Secretarys intent. The Battle of the Rams (1863)
Kindred and Friends were very mightie: thought it much better, patiently to suffer the wrong alreadie done him, then by obstinate contending to proceed further, and fare worse. The Decameron
To complete the course, she'll depend on a musher riding ahead and radioing back warnings of low branches, obstinate moose, and open water.
I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool
-- As in many cases the entropium seems to depend partly on a too great laxity of the skin of the lid, combined occasionally with spasm of the orbicularis, the simplest and most natural plan of operation is (_a_) to remove (Fig.VII. _a_) an elliptical portion of skin, extending transversely along the whole length of the affected lid, including the fibres of the orbicularis lying below it, and then to unite the edges with several points of fine suture. (_b_) An improvement on this in obstinate cases is proposed by A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
'Let it be _virtuous_ to be _obstinate_,' let there be no better principle of that identity which we insist on in men, that firmness which we call manliness, and the cherished _wrong_ is honour. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
He is proving to be about as obstinate, determined and defiant as I.
His horse, the tall grey he perversely favoured, was tethered at the gatehouse; no great beauty in looks or temperament, hard-mouthed, strong-willed, and obstinate, with a profound contempt for all humanity except his master, and nothing more than the tolerant respect of an equal even for Hugh. The Heretic's Apprentice
-- that obstinate melomaniac, who, seized in the fingers, deplores his misfortune as loquaciously as ever he sang the joys of freedom in his tree? Social Life in the Insect World
In the North, the majority of servants are either freedmen or the children of freedmen; these persons occupy a contested position in the public estimation; by the laws they are brought up to the level of their masters-by the manners of the country they are obstinately detruded from it. Democracy in America, volume 2
He is wandering around with the phone in the crook of his neck and shoulder, gamely trying to placate an obstinate interviewer.
The development of private economy can lead to the solution of many obstinate problems, such as shortage of capital, insufficient job position, and unawareness of market conception.
They are fighting a culture that is deep-rooted and obstinate.
Being the obstinate set of girls they were, the debate would carry on until one of them had decided it best to just kill the subject.
When he refused to obey their summons, they deposed him, declaring him to be disobedient, obstinate, rebellious, a breaker of rules, a perturber of ecclesiastical unity, a perjurer, a schismatic, The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
THE last part of this third discourse endeavours to shew, "that the Scripture is not convictive of the most obstinate and acute adversaries. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10.
Those inept, self-important idiots ran that place into the ground, creating unnecessary crises through decades of obstinate mismanagement.
Glenvarloch, that was his name indeed — Justus et tenax propositi — A just man, but as obstinate as a baited bull. The Fortunes of Nigel
While once children were called stupid, lazy, naughty or obstinate, now we have many syndromes and disorders - all still imperfectly understood - that medicalise their behaviour.
They were horrid, smelly, dirty and obstinate things that dominated your life right through every winter, and no-one who doesn't have to would even think of having one.
His vanity would have preferred a longer combat -- for even the most shallow admit the romantic admirableness of an obstinate love. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
He was a bulldog in his pursuits wearing down the most obstinate official.
When taken in small but long-continued doses, it produces colic, called painter's colic; great pain, obstinate constipation, and in extreme cases paralytic, symptoms, especially wrist-drop, with a blue line along the edge of the gums. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
From what he knew, Miette was obstinate, so stubborn that it was odd to see her even shed a tear from physical pain, let alone emotional.
The apostles also confuted the heathen philosophers and Jews, a people than whom none more obstinate, but rather by their good lives and miracles than syllogisms: and yet there was scarce one among them that was capable of understanding the least "quodlibet" of the Scotists. The Praise of Folly
She was an obstinate young person -- she was precise, she was scrupulous, she was of a secretive, untrustful turn of mind; and as she was ambitious for advancement from the dreary isolation of Point-o'-Bay Cove, she was not to be entrapped or entreated into what she had determined was a breach of discipline. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
David as a van-boy from some calico-printing works in the neighbourhood, prayed aloud, breaking down into sobs in the middle; and David, at first obstinately silent, found himself joining before the end in the groans and 'Amens,' by force of a contagious excitement he half despised but could not withstand. The History of David Grieve
Looking back, I see the gracious hand of our sovereign God overruling my obstinate reluctance and giving me new desires that were not natural for me.
A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale - like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly noninfective. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
He has suffered for several years with violent gastralgia and obstinate dyspepsia, for which he has long used morphine. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
The urine was small in quantity, of a bluish colour, and coagulable, irritability of stomach, and the bowels were obstinate and difficult to move, even with drastic purgatives. An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners
On these accounts it is that I find it impossible to banish the thought of death when I am walking alone in the endless days of summer; and any particular death, if not more affecting, at least haunts my mind more obstinately and besiegingly in that season. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
` ` Oh, I have heard of that smaik, 'said the Scotch merchant, interrupting him; ` ` it is he whom your principal, like an obstinate auld fule, wad make a merchant o, wad he or wad he no, --- and the lad turned a strolling stage-player, in pure dislike to the labour an honest man should live by. Rob Roy
Nevertheless, Thomas continued obstinate; and, at length declared, that if the dog was not shot immediately, he himself would be his executioner — This declaration opened the flood-gates of Tabby’s eloquence, which would have shamed the first-rate oratress of Billingsgate. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
obstinate withstanders of innovation
He is so obstinate that he still tries to defend his theory, although it has been proved wrong.
Yes, a chronic and very obstinate case of icterus. Chapter XXI
Gartner found that N. acuminata, which is not a particularly distinct species, obstinately failed to fertilise, or to be fertilised by, no less than eight other species of Nicotiana. On the origin of species
They are as proud as peacocks, and as obstinate as tups — and here he has missed an opportunity of making his house as pretty an irregular fortification as an invading army ever broke their teeth upon. — A Legend of Montrose
Later, George Canning, who was a canny man, but obstinate, and never gave up a purpose, came back at the Americans, and for the second time, and then again for the third time proposed a joint pronouncement by America and Great Britain which should warn Spain that her dominancy of the South American and Central American nations had passed by. Good Will Between the United States and Canada
Meanwhile, I simply dozed off, and dreamt of being chased by a group of spear-throwing Alpine warriors, presumably because of a particularly obstinate piece of grass that was sticking into my left thigh.
that unsuprised obstinate look on his face
But if you're just an obstinate old scudder why not carry this inanity one step further and stop using punctuation or spacing between words? Writing Advice from Clyde Allison
At work and home, you can get cooperation from even the most obstinate people. The Sun
She was always the outsider, refusing to conform to traditions, obstinate and impudent.
While the suspect had been cockily polite and “helpful” all the way through, they reported back, he had obstinately refused to change his story about leaving Jesica at Stillorgan shopping centre and going straight home. The Priest
Even within the limits of the same genus, we meet with this same difference; for instance, the many species of Nicotiana have been more largely crossed than the species of almost any other genus; but Gartner found that N. acuminata, which is not a particularly distinct species, obstinately failed to fertilise, or to be fertilised by, no less than eight other species of Nicotiana. On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 08 (historical)
There remain some obstinate holdouts from the old marsh life, including a pair of nesting hawks who perch on the light standards over the roadway, scanning the cars going in and out of the university.
For the grey-haired, being young is often equated with being hot-headed, turbulent, self-willed, obstinate, and too hot to handle.
Efficaciously get ride of ageing corneous cells, soften solid fat in the pores, clean away obstinate dirt inside the pores, and clean the dead skinned cells.
Unemployment figures are remaining obstinately high.
Obstinate and fatuous to the last, they dallied and paltered on the fatal ground, until sudden, blinding, inevitable catastrophe fell upon them from all sides at once, and swept them out of existence as a military force. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
White Hart evening club he was more often than any other the winner of the Headstrong Book -- an old Greek Homer despatched the next morning to the most obstinate haranguer of the preceding night. Highways & Byways in Sussex
He proved to be what his name betokened -- a remarkably obstinate and stupid fellow. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley
Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils.
It's this obstinate refusal to pussyfoot around and pull punches that endears her to those sick of spin and glib sloganeering.
He had worked at the iron bars for a time, but had now given it up, finding that he would be knifeless long before he could loosen a single bar; besides, that gnawing hunger mastered everything else, and in place of the active the passive state had set in: with a feeling of obstinate annoyance against his captors he had determined to sit still and starve. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"
Formal, exact and obstinate, he was also cold, suspicious, touchy and tactless.
The auld-farrant, scraichin ', obstinate grey gander. The Dop Doctor
Invading troops met with obstinate resistance by guerilla forces.
Ballater sensed obstinate refusal rather than a willingness to bargain.
Thanks to the Prime Minister, s remarks, many people think that both farmers and the county council are being obstinate in refusing to reopen footpaths and bridle ways.
Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Quite often a series of progressively unpleasant interchanges will take place with the child becoming more obstinate and the parent more angry.
Why be obstinate and persist in planting rice if eventually we don't make any money?
Then the temperamental keyboards decided to be obstinate, gave one little gasp and retired leaving their conductor Victor Philip with nothing to guide them with but enthusiasm.
He rolled his eyes and bent his head close towards hers, looking for the entire world to be whispering sweet nothings into her ears, while actually saying ‘Would you cooperate, you obstinate virago?’
he obstinates himself against all rational arguments
He was rash, arrogant and obstinate, contentious, envious and malicious, covetous and corrupt.
Even within the limits of the same genus, we meet with this same difference; for instance, the many species of Nicotiana have been more largely crossed than the species of almost any other genus; but Gärtner found that N. acuminata, which is not a particularly distinct species, obstinately failed to fertilise, or to be fertilised by, no less than eight other species of Nicotiana. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
Her reputation for complete indifference to admiration and her unvarying attitude towards men were as well known as her dauntless courage and obstinate determination. The Sheik
Rose, so far had loosening and disintegration gone on in her character, now was beginning to think her obstinate strait-lacedness about his books and her austere absorption in good works had been foolish and perhaps even wrong. The Enchanted April
Never have I met a woman so obstinate, so pigheaded!
The blunt instrument obstinately refused to reveal itself and he doubted if there were any more revelations to be got out of anybody.
For the grey-haired, being young is often equated with being hot-headed, turbulent, self-willed, obstinate, and too hot to handle.
A defendant can combat an obstinate refusal even to consider compromise by a shrewd payment into court, or a Calderbank offer.
The plan proved quite successful in curing obstinate lepra. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Of the obstinate effort to bring about an armed intervention, on the lines marked out by Russells letter to Palmerston from Gotha, 17 September, 1862, nothing could be said beyond Gladstones plea in excuse for his speech in pursuance of the same effort, that it was the most singular and palpable error, the least excusable, a mistake of incredible grossness, which passed defence; but while Gladstone threw himself on the mercy of the public for his speech, he attempted no excuse for Lord Russell who led him into the incredible grossness of announcing the Foreign Secretarys intent. The Battle of the Rams (1863)
There was something extremely provoking in this obstinately pacific system; it left Brom no alternative but to draw upon the funds of rustic waggery in his disposition, and to play off boorish practical jokes upon his rival. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Although I was being importuned with an obstinate request for alms, I nonetheless summoned enough courage to give him a glowering look in an attempt to scare him away.
Having shown himself ready to abandon those favourite notions of Frenchmen and Italians, it is a pity he should obstinately retain certain worn-out phrases about the Germans.
However, having regard to the trial judge's reasons as a whole, and considering both the content of some of S's speeches already mentioned, and the broad latitude allowed by the defence of fair comment, the defamatory imputation that while S would not engage in violence herself she would condone violence by others, is an opinion that could honestly have been expressed on the proved facts by a person prejudiced, exaggerated or obstinate in his views. Daimnation!: Fair Comment
In many obstinate skin disorders like psoriasis and eczema where the application of soap aggravates the problem, patients are best advised to use curd while bathing.
Inlistments, when the officers are impowered to impress, and not to be so obstinate as some were last Spring. John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759
This person is the most opinionated, wrong, obstinate person I've seen in this courtroom.
Ignoring the question, he took an obstinate bite of cheese and slowly chewed it, savoring the food with exaggerated relish.
North, the majority of servants are either freedmen or the children of freedmen; these persons occupy a contested position in the public estimation; by the laws they are brought up to the level of their masters -- by the manners of the country they are obstinately detruded from it. Democracy in America — Volume 2
Her obstinate search for justice, despite her advancing pregnancy and the opposition of her husband and his family, takes her to the bewildering hubbub of the city.
Both sides are trying to wear the other down by being obstinate in the negotiations.

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