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 our host is absent, your Grace," replied the Provost pertinaciously; "and neither he nor any one else, but your Grace's friends present, need know anything at all of the matter.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
She hardly grasped it, but child-like returned pertinaciously to her business in hand.
From Jill's Red Bag by Amy Le Feuvre
"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 Julia Kavanagh
Yet conscience pertinaciously presented the injunction?"first be reconciled to thy brother."
From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner
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