Second: General "cussedness.

He stands crowd jostling good-naturedly or gets his cussedness squeezed out.

" "Oh yes; part o' their cussedness.

Not only are there innumerable and seemingly interminable chores that must follow the regular occupations of the day, but a thousand emergencies due to chance, weather, or the natural cussedness of things must be disposed of as they arise, regardless of what plans the rustic swain cherishes for the use of his spare time.

It has even (such is the cussedness and contrariety of Nature) helped greatly in the evolution of love and social solidarity.

An' this war has brought out the German cussedness.

All kinds of theories were advanced, such as poison, malaria from Indiana, and pure cussedness.

It might have been that quixotism had inspired his infatuate gesture, but it might quite as conceivably have been everyday vanity or plain cussedness: a noble impulse to serve a pretty lady in distress, a spontaneous device to engage her interest, or a low desire to plague a personality as antipathetic to his own as that of a rattlesnake.

" Through the hot, black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word.

Obstinacy N. obstinateness &c adj.; obstinacy, tenacity; cussedness

There's a duffer in your district Whose sheer cussedness is such

But they are not only worthless; they actually imperil your soul because of their exasperating ways and general cussedness.

A fellow's got to let off steam once in a while, and if you'd been pestered like I have with Unc' Zenas's ornery trifling spells and old Pomp's general cussedness, you'd wonder that I don't get mad and stay mad every minute.

" We now made the best of our way down the nullah, and when an apology for a path became apparent I rejoiced greatly, and followed it along its corkscrew course until the camp came suddenly into view as we topped a spur, which gave the path a final excuse for dragging me up a stiff two hundred feet, and then sending me down a knee-shaking descent, for no apparent reason but pure "cussedness.

This appears a startling statement and a sweeping; but, as a matter of fact, the Eastern girl is not left, like her Western sister, to flirt and frivol into middle age in single "cussedness," but almost invariably becomes a respectable married lady at ten or twelve, and drapes her lovely, but not over clean, head in the mantle of old sacking, which it is de rigueur for matrons to adopt.

Didn't preach much from the Bible, but talked on the cussedness of Robert Elsmere and the low-downness of Trilby.

Of course Si wasn't exactly consistent in this, but, as he used to say, it's the consistent men who keep the devil busy, because no one's ever really consistent except in his cussedness.

Where'd you get the money for all this cussedness?

After all, there was more in Percy than cussedness, for when he finally decided that it was a case of root hog or die with him, he turned in and rooted.

Still, as he used to say, when he shot at the bar mirrors during one of his periods of temporary elevation, he paid for what he brokecash for the mirrors and sweat and blood for his cussedness.

A boy doesn't pick up cuss-words when his mother's around or learn cussedness from his father.

An idea took hold on him, jest from cussedness, you'd say, but it was partly from revenge on the cap'en and partly to get away from the ship.

o' no cussedness, but just to satisfy herself, now she's a married woman and past such foolishness.

He told me that he never would have believed twelve goats could cover so much cussedness in a day.

He thought it was just old age and general cussedness.