pertinaciously
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“Miss Eyre, I repeat it, you can leave me. How often am I to say the same thing? Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
But the notion of the non-existence of hurricanes in these waters is so pertinaciously maintained that it was no wonder the careful and able Spanish commander had also been misled.
Manners endeavoured more than once to bring him back to the subject, but the gipsy pertinaciously avoided any approach to it.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
The son of this nobleman, however, pursued far different maxims, and pertinaciously clung to the douceurs and infamy of office; for infamous it most certainly was, to practice measures his own sentiments condemned.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne
"I—" "Well then, say thirty pound," pertinaciously resumed the old man; "take thirteen from thirty—" "No, I can't then—really, I can't," desperately exclaimed Jones; "on my word I can't."
From Rachel Gray by Kavanagh, Julia
