pertinacious

She was pertinacious in her behaviour and damned the mayor'.

The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited, are exceedingly pertinacious.

"But Richelieu never came in this manner," said the pertinacious boy.

A few women, true enough, are so pertinacious that they prefer defeat to compromise.

This pertinacious alien was trying to be altogether too clever.

Again they laughed at the child's pertinacious fancy for a night ramble.

I am loath to let him enter my house; he is said to be a pertinacious guest.

Would the pertinacious lawyer give way at last?

So pertinacious a beggar I had never seen.

"The assassins are pertinacious, but we shall outwit them, one way or another.

But pupils of the more pertinacious sort profited greatly from his teaching and his company.

She pulled me down upon the beginnings of her flabbiness, gasping from the pertinacious endeavor.

And they made a pertinacious and distinctive pair.

Cugel was a man of many capabilities, with a disposition at once flexible and pertinacious.

A pertinacious uncle watches the sweet potatoes go round the table, hoping for seconds and thirds.

Looks as if the pertinacious principal owner will have to live with this, and suffer by raking in the sellout profits.

It was impossible, as she knew from experience, to tear Dale away from the pertinacious young men of the Press.

The commandos were like those pertinacious flies which buzz upwards when a hand approaches them, but only to settle again in the same place.

"Well, sir," said Ogilvy, who was a particularly pertinacious Scot.

"Delays are dangerous," said the pertinacious Emilia, who, woman-like, was determined to have her own way.

And they needed a coach, Phil Jackson, to orchestrate this, and a pertinacious defense, too.

His mood was primitive and pertinacious.

Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye.

Having taken his line, Buller set about his task in a slow, deliberate, but pertinacious fashion.

Then he became pertinacious.