The Indians had apparently become tired of fighting, especially as they found that they had a most stubborn foe to deal with.

Why does not this hard Heart, this stubborn Fugitive, Break with this Load of Griefs?

I'd rather hear thee swear, thou art my Foe, And like some noble and romantick Maid With Poniards wou'd my stubborn Heart invade; And whilst thou dost the faithful Relique tear, In every Vein thoud'st find Celinda there.

It was a stubborn old lock, and required a good deal of patiencewhich the girls had notand tinkering to make it give way.

The bushes grew thick on the hillside and their branches were stubborn as crab thorns.

Human nature was stubborn; one paid for forcing it to obey the rules of worldly prudence.

Yew shan't" Here Abe's stubborn will, so rarely set against Angy's gentle persistence, rose up in defiance: "We're a-gwine on a reg'lar A No. 1 spree with the boys, an' no women-folks is a-goin' ter stop us neither.

They were both for fighting on till final victory, whatever the cost, and both spoke with admiration of the inflexible and stubborn spirit of the British nation.

But the rivalry which grew up between the two Powers developed into a stubborn contest for the empire of the world, culminating in the three Punic wars.

At Three Pines the government teacher brought out influential whites to threaten and cajole the stubborn tribes.

" "Yes, I have," said Patty; "she is so decided that, with all her sweetness, I have sometimes been tempted to call her stubborn.

Is it possible you still believe I am a thief at heart and interested in those jewels only to turn them to my own profit?" He stared unbelievingly at the frosty eyes of Monk beneath their fatuously stubborn brows, at the hard, unyielding eyes of Phinuit.

In their own free circles, by their quiet hearth, Rearing him a bulwark steady as the Earth: On their mighty anvils, with a giant's skill, Bending stubborn iron to his lightest will: Prosperous and happy, free in heart and soul, These send forth my glory to the furthest Pole.

Now the stubborn strength bends humbly, To the Master yielding dumbly; From the metal, purged and glowing, Forms of freest grace are flowing.

Well said, stubborn Dick, Jack would not Serve me so, were the boy here.

These boys are too-too stubborn, Lancaster; But 'tis their mother's fault.

Down, stubborn Queen, kneel to your wronged king, Down, mammet!

Against a stubborn and even semi-intelligent foe there is no storming a narrow frontal line of fortifications when you may not turn the ends.

In the twelfth year of his age, a stubborn, painful, and malignant ulcer, broke out upon his left thigh; which, for near five years, defeated all the art of the surgeons and physicians, and not only afflicted him with most excruciating pains, but exposed him to such sharp and tormenting applications, that the disease and remedies were equally insufferable.

" The admiral shook his head with a stubborn resolution to taste nothing French, but he helped himself to a bountiful stock of Madeira, as he replied "I should like to know how you can bring it about this time of day, Denbigh.

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still; And when the stars are labouring, we believe It is not that they govern, but they grieve For stubborn ignorance.

O thou who sweetly bend'st my stubborn will, Who send'st thy stripes to teach and not to kill!

Rather he stiffened himself to a more stubborn and obstinate resolution.

Why a well-treated, not to say pampered, car which some hours before had been left in perfect condition and excellent temper should abruptly turn stubborn and refuse to fulfil its chief end is a problem which we shall not attempt to solve.

" He looked stubborn.