'She's a fearful obstinate woman; and she'd wait a week for me.'

STELLA PROVES OBSTINATE XV.

10.Yours to rebuke the foolish, to punish the hosts, turning disorder into order [restraint] of the stubborn, obstinate, wretched.

"As a rule, they're not truculent, but they're devilish obstinate.

However, I am a little obstinate, as you know, on the chapter of health, and have persisted through this Siberian winter in not adding a grain to my clothes, and going open-breasted without an under waistcoat.

He witnessed also the final defeat at Worcester, where, for the second time, he was made prisoner, and being regarded as an obstinate malignant, was in great danger of execution.