1 I love you, your courage and your stubbornness and your fire and your utter ruthlessness.
2 But it was too much trouble to explain to Kennicott's kindly stubbornness that she was a practical housekeeper as well as a flighty playmate.
3 For again Starbuck's downcast eyes lighted up with the stubbornness of life; the subterranean laugh died away; the winds blew on; the sails filled out; the ship heaved and rolled as before.
4 I was wrong to attempt to deceive you; but I feared a stubbornness that exists in your character.
5 There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
6 For stubbornness won't do here,' said his sister 'What it wants is, to be crushed.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 7 But now that I see your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish whatsoever to intercede on your behalf.
8 He held her fan in one hand and his untouched plate of barbecue in the other and stubbornly refused to meet the eyes of Honey, who seemed on the verge of an outburst of tears.
9 The avenue seemed miles long and the horse, pulling stubbornly at her hand, plopped slower and slower.
10 His comrade grunted stubbornly.
11 His dulled senses wished him to swoon and he opposed them stubbornly, his mind portraying unknown dangers and mutilations if he should fall upon the field.
12 These grew to a crowd, who retired stubbornly.
13 But very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 1: VIII 14 He remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother's face, and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished reading.
15 The struggle between the old views and the new was long and stubbornly fought out in physical philosophy.