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

"How so?" inquired Amy, hoping to gain some intelligence as to why her room was so pertinaciously kept closed.

From It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

This Court continues pertinaciously to insist on our ceding that navigation, nor will they, as yet, listen to any middle line.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various

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)

But these thoughts only came when she was alone; the moment she heard her father's voice, or met her mother's smile, they fled from her till they were pertinaciously recalled.

From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace