What therefore, beside monstrous vanity and unaccountable perverseness, should hold men so devoted thereto?

" "Ah!" laughed the sightless man, "he's already beginning to understand the feminine perverseness, eh?

It would be in exact conformity with what I have hitherto observed of a general trend towards a certain inborn perverseness and whimsicality in Nature.' Note.

" The ineradicable perverseness of some minds is amusingly illustrated by Southey, in his History of Brazil.

The stern dignity of antiquity showed itself in grave reserve; that of the present shows itself in quarrelsome perverseness.

The desire to visit the haunted house was growing more and more irresistible, but she turned it aside with all the relentless perverseness of a woman who feels it worth while to procrastinate.

People in our position are not a very cheerful class, I am afraid; but still they don't seek out worries from sheer perverseness.

But his most withering denunciation of the Manicheans was directed against their pride of reason, against their darkened understanding, which led them not only to believe a lie, but to glory in it,the utter perverseness of the mind when in rebellion to divine authority, in view of which it is almost vain to argue, since truth will neither be admitted nor accepted.

Here were 700 men, mostly veterans, of one of Her Majesty's regiments, doomed to inaction through the blundering and stupid perverseness of an old sepoy Brigadier.

Through a sort of youthful perverseness not unmixed with bucolic pride, Lorry declined the invitation.