refractoriness

Example Sentences

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There was only one part of his progress in which Carefinotu showed refractoriness; that was in learning the English language.

From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Verne, Jules

An act of oblivion, as I may call it, shall pass upon all your former refractoriness: and you will once more make us happy in you, and in one another.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel

And he only gave way after Bartek's refractoriness also had been softened by unusual eloquence on Porankiewicz's part.

From More Tales by Polish Authors by Various

Take from me, O Lord, her perverseness, her wilfulness, her refractoriness, and hear thy Spirit saying in my soul: Heal me, O Lord, for I would be healed.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John

This was all he had to offer to the Father in expiation of his contumely and refractoriness, his errors and his falls.

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)