refractory

Occasionally, refractory brick is used, but it is not necessary.

The keys of Valenciennes, it was commonly said, opened to the regent the gates of all the refractory cities of the Netherlands.

The pessimist is further characterised by an incapacity for prolonged attention, a refractory attention and a feeble will.

These Pausies of Oude generally form the worst part of the gangs of refractory tallookdars in their indiscriminate plunder.

I was a refractory, I evaded the conscription, that was all.

And it would make me perfectly wretched to be confronted by ears so refractory as to require boxing.

He has succeeded in producing the most brilliant glass of refractory power, which is so difficult to obtain.

I've trimmed the refractory locks: you look a tidy little girl now.

It was made through Bajaur where refractory tribesmen were brought to order.

To remove trousers from a refractory prisoner offers problems.