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

She hardly grasped it, but child-like returned pertinaciously to her business in hand.

From Jill's Red Bag by Le Feuvre, Amy

He repeated the fact to himself pertinaciously, but without any great feeling either of conviction or resentment.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

"Then he's alive," said Clarence pertinaciously, and looking at her.

From The Mandarin's Fan by Hume, Fergus

He strove for it pertinaciously, however, for some time; and hazarded something himself in order to obtain that object.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)