Obstinate
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Like all new converts who have found a mission, he had become an
obstinate
propagandist.
At the same moment Father Bonnemort and old Mouque also left Montsou, walking in the same somnambulistic manner, preserving the
obstinate
silence of their recollections.
And she was obstinate; it was vain to tell her that the lunch would be disturbed, and that the visit to Saint-Thomas could not take place.
A rosy corner was still obstinate, and she pushed it back with her finger, and then buttoned herself up, and was now quite black and shapeless in her old gown.
Must he still push them on in
obstinate
resistance, now that there was neither money nor credit?
they would only starve by being
obstinate.
He went off in his gentle,
obstinate
way, with a cigarette between his lips.
At first M. Hennebeau affected surprise: no order had reached him, nothing could be changed so long as the miners persisted in their detestable rebellion; and this official stiffness produced the worst effects, so that if the delegates had gone out of their way to offer conciliation, the way in which they were received would only have served to make them more
obstinate.
This excess of misery made them still more obstinate, mute as tracked beasts, resolved to die at the bottom of their hole rather than come out.
The others lowered their faces,
obstinate
and incredulous, refusing to take into their heads the idea that a master did not gain millions out of his men.
But he was
obstinate
and remained amongst them.
They had lighted the last lamp; it was becoming exhausted in illuminating this flood, with its regular,
obstinate
rise which never ceased.
It was at length their wedding night, at the bottom of this tomb, on this bed of mud, the longing not to die before they had had their happiness, the
obstinate
longing to live and make life one last time.
And beneath his feet, the deep blows, those
obstinate
blows of the pick, continued.
The
obstinate
Canadian refused, and I could clearly see that his tight-lipped mood and his bad temper were growing by the day.
"How
obstinate
you are sometimes!
For all his pride, the Mayor was obliged to make many overtures to old Sorel, a dour and
obstinate
peasant; he was obliged to pay him in fine golden louis before he would consent to remove his mill elsewhere.
'Since Sorel is not delighted and overwhelmed by my proposal, as he ought naturally to be, it is clear,' he said to himself, 'that overtures have been made to him from another quarter; and from whom can they have come, except from Valenod?'It was in vain that M. de Renal urged Sorel to conclude the bargain there and then: the astute old peasant met him with an
obstinate
refusal; he wished, he said, to consult his son, as though, in the country, a rich father ever consulted a penniless son, except for form's sake.
He wished to know the whole extent of the harm, and, with this object, emerged a little from that haughty and
obstinate
silence with which he repulsed his fellows.
I want him to take to blue as a background, with white or cream for relief; but, there! the less taste a person has in dress, the more
obstinate
he always seems to be.
But since he had been in work he had become more
obstinate
and would always insist on staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the chair for his bed.
Occasionally he would pay a visit to the wounded Englishman, who, being more hurt in the spirit than in the flesh, tolerated the interruptions with a very ill grace; and once, for an instant, he ventured to steal softly to the bed of his
obstinate
comrade, and was near succeeding in obtaining a touch of his pulse, when a terrible oath, sworn by the trooper in a dream, startled the prudent surgeon, and warned him of a trite saying in the corps, "that Captain Lawton always slept with one eye open."
"Harvey is as
obstinate
about such things as a dumb beast; one would think the care I took of his bedridden father might learn him better than to despise good nursing.
But I was as
obstinate
a man as ever laced his boots, and if you jerked me back it was the finest way of sending me to the front.
Laurent was a real son of a peasant, rather heavy in gait, with an arched back, with movements that were slow and precise, and an
obstinate
tranquil manner.
He was naughty and
obstinate.
They proved
obstinate
in their hatred and cruelty.
"In that case," said Sancho, "mind that your worship does not forget this as you did the oath; perhaps the phantoms may take it into their heads to amuse themselves once more with me; or even with your worship if they see you so obstinate."
Heaven, moved by my tears and prayers, has so ordered it that Rocinante cannot stir; and if you will be obstinate, and spur and strike him, you will only provoke fortune, and kick, as they say, against the pricks."
"Thou art a coward by nature, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but lest thou shouldst say I am obstinate, and that I never do as thou dost advise, this once I will take thy advice, and withdraw out of reach of that fury thou so dreadest; but it must be on one condition, that never, in life or in death, thou art to say to anyone that I retired or withdrew from this danger out of fear, but only in compliance with thy entreaties; for if thou sayest otherwise thou wilt lie therein, and from this time to that, and from that to this, I give thee lie, and say thou liest and wilt lie every time thou thinkest or sayest it; and answer me not again; for at the mere thought that I am withdrawing or retiring from any danger, above all from this, which does seem to carry some little shadow of fear with it, I am ready to take my stand here and await alone, not only that Holy Brotherhood you talk of and dread, but the brothers of the twelve tribes of Israel, and the Seven Maccabees, and Castor and Pollux, and all the brothers and brotherhoods in the world."
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