refractoriness

Example Sentences

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Five babies at different stages of refractoriness are sprawling about on this strip of floor; they make noises all the time.

From Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India by Carmichael, Amy

They had proved but turbulent occupants, being in a constant state of refractoriness against their landlords, the bachelor brothers, who seemed to be somewhat in awe of them.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various

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)

The disciplinarian, defeated in his attempt on Robinson, was compensated by a rare stroke of good fortune—a case of real refractoriness even this was not perfect, but it answered every purpose.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles

Calvin and Farel resisted; their political enemies made a pretext of this refractoriness to exile them from Geneva, whence they were banished for some years.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de