recalcitrate

Example Sentences

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And the West is kicking, kicking with both feet, kicking like a bay steer who has a kick coming and knows how to recalcitrate.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

Here, dear Christopher, I recalcitrate, and decline printing the rest of the sentence; but as to "Things in General"—I am somewhat smitten with the suggestion.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

Wherefore recalcitrate against that will,   From which the end can never be cut off,   And which has many times increased your pain?

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

While in Europe the same classes sometimes recalcitrate even against the supreme power, the American submits without a murmur to the authority of the pettiest magistrate.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

He braced his feet and stood his ground, and made the wise men wait, While with his heels at all around he did recalcitrate.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry