Now, it is easy to imagine that the trichinae obtained from a hungry pig must be of a very insatiable and ravenous disposition, and this is but too often realized by the silly wearers of the porcine chignons, into whose brains, (when they happen to have any,) the horrible little parasites worm their way in myriads, rendering their hapless victims pig-headed to an extent that defies description either with pen or pencil.

"He's the most pig-headed, obstinate, vain, narrow-minded man you could come across."

And he's been rebellious and pig-headed and sullen in return for my kindness, so naturally there's little love lost between us.

They are pig-headed, exalted, unpractical to a man.

He's Dutch an' pig-headed.

" "He must have been an extraordinarily pig-headed old fellow," I remarked.

"Neil," she said; "do you remember that you once called me the most pig-headed infant in Chelsea?" "Did I?"

Oh, what a careless country you are!a careless, haphazard, blind, pig-headed nation to watch over the destinies of such an Empire!

"Pig-headed" is the word that springs to the lips.

Adj. obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened; inflexible &c (hard) 323; balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved; inert &c 172; unchangeable &c 150; inexorable &c (determined) 604; mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed. dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.

Pig-headed merchants; apprentices, knavish or honest as the case may be; young girls with a touch of poetry in their natures, who sober down into kindly housewives; tyrannical serf-owners and weak-willed sons of noble families

No, I wasn't proud, either," Mr. Woods amended, bitterly; "I was simply pig-headed and mulish.

If you wasn't my little gal I'd say you was plain pig-headed.

At the end of half an hour our pig-headed officer shipped us back to Brussels.

'You say that everything is perishable,' said she, 'but now I shall still name something which will always be like itself; and that is that such arrogant and pig-headed peasants as you will always be found in this provinceuntil the end of time.

" "Well," Fay chuckled, apparently not displeased, "you're an obstinate young man, or rather a pig-headed young man, but I don't know as that counts against you.

"Yes; you're a pig-headed old man, Dominie.

England would have had Italy submit to that Austrian rule which had been established over her by English influence in 1814, when even the perverse, pig-headed Francis II.

My husband has offered a hundred times to have him put into a home, but the other brotherGreen, the schoolmasteris absolutely pig-headed on the subject, and won't hear of it.

Pig-headed as a mule, but" "Are mules pig-headed?" said Dick flippantly.

Pig-headed as a mule, but" "Are mules pig-headed?" said Dick flippantly.

From the moment of landing on their feet their whole attitude expressed devouring curiosity and a pig-headed disregard for their own safety.

And then the Queen, Ned!why, that pig-headed old woman will be blaming it on me, that there is nobody to prevent that detestable French King from turning Catholic and dragging England into new wars, and I shall not be able to go to any of the court dances!

* Blanche Maddison, the heroine of The Obstinate Lady (HUTCHINSON), might without any excess of rudeness be called pig-headed.

"The obstinate, pig-headed old ass!"