There was something in him hard and unyielding as flint.

It is interesting, in this connection, to note the testimony given by Sir Edwin Pears to the desire for good relations between Great Britain and Germany felt and expressed later by the same Baron Marschall von Bieberstein who was so unyielding in 1907 on the question of arbitration.

" It was very hard to be unyielding to him when he spoke and looked as he did then; but she repeated to herself, "He will be gone to-morrow, and then I shall be so thankful that I did not bind myselfthat I am still free.

She stood straight and unyielding on the very spot which had seen her trembling with emotion but a moment before.

Women of narrow hearts often remain unyielding through a certain philistinism of virtue.

" "Yes, but the absence of that fascinating air, which you know would bring the most unyielding to your feet, is what I am lamenting.