How To Use pertinacity In A Sentence
- The forward cylinder was depending on that unknown force men call the pertinacity of materials, which now and then balances that other heartbreaking power, the perversity of inanimate things. The Day's Work - Volume 1
- That first assignment of "tailing" kept him thirty-six hours without sleep, but he stuck to his trail, stuck to it with the blind pertinacity of a bloodhound, and at the end transcended mere animalism by buying a tip from a friendly bartender. Never-Fail Blake
- Such thing like this has happened frequently and I know it is my essence: violating knowingly and pertinacity and just being conscious and penitential afterward.
- This was returned to Buckingham Palace in 1947, largely through the pertinacity of Queen Mary.
- What character and pertinacity to score 160 runs in those conditions. Times, Sunday Times
- Certainly, if the confederates of this roving gipsy were so pertinacious in tormenting poor weak Mr. Mompesson, their pertinacity is a most extraordinary instance of what revenge is capable of. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- She had the kind of pertinacity that sever admits being out of depth, the happy buoyancy that does not require to feel the bottom under one's feet. The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3
- I object to something which is conceited and small-minded; but which also has that kind of pertinacity which always belongs to lunatics. The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
- Their pertinacity in extortion is said to be marvellous. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
- If the lower-class Irishman or Italian, unendowed with judgment to rightly use the little knowledge he already possesses -- to properly interpret his own feelings or guide his own impulses -- has not his church with its priestly control, he will have his secret-society with its secret executive control, its bovine fury, and its senseless pertinacity, the poison-bowl and the dagger. A Strange Discovery
