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
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 G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Count Edmund would have been wiser not so pertinaciously to have insisted on having his own way.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
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
Yet conscience pertinaciously presented the injunction?"first be reconciled to thy brother."
From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner
