23 Verbs to Use for the Word obstinate

Moreover, the school, as a larger social unit than the home, has some distinct advantages over the latter: It can teach the obstinate, quarrelsome child better than can the home the necessity of adjusting his conduct to the requirements of the social group with which he associates.

When Sir ROGER saw Andromache's obstinate Refusal to her Lovers Importunities, he whisper'd me in the Ear, that he was sure she would never have him; to which he added, with a more than ordinary Vehemence, you cant imagine, Sir, what tis to have to do with a Widow.

So, so, all things go gloriously forward, but my own Amour, and there is no convincing this obstinate Woman, that 'twas that Rogue Harlequin in Disguise, claim'd me; so that I cannot so much as come to deliver the young Ladies their Letters from their Lovers.

His choice depended on some fortuitous circumstances, but from the moment that he turned his face in the other direction, it was impossible for him to go back; and the more he stuck in the mud, the more obstinate he grew.

VI.Cure of Despair by Physic, Good Counsel, Comforts, &c. Experience teacheth us, that though many die obstinate and wilful in this malady, yet multitudes again are able to resist and overcome, seek for help and find comfort, are taken e faucibus Erebi, from the chops of hell, and out of the devil's paws, though they have by obligation, given themselves to him.

"But I would know what is to become of this child, if we take her fortune, though it be withheld from her by another," says I, being exceeding obstinate and persistent in my liquor.

pposite interests, and instigated by the pride and violence of their own temper; our curiosity is naturally raised, and we expect an obstinate and furious war, distinguished by the greatest events, and concluded by some remarkable catastrophe.

On the 7th November the 60th Division after its spirited attack on Tel el Sheria crossed the wadi and advanced north about two miles, fighting obstinate rearguards all the way.

William employed both menaces and persuasion for that purpose; but finding the convert obstinate in his new faith, he sent for the father and told him, that as he had not succeeded, it was not just that he should keep the present; but as he had done his utmost, it was but equitable that he should be paid for his pains; and he would therefore retain only thirty marks of the money

Opium smoking's forbidden, and" But Angela grew obstinate.

"Opposition sometimes makes one obstinate.

But they neglected his commaundëment; So long persisted obstinate and bolde, Till at the length he published to holde A visitation, and them cyted thether.

A great babblement went across the open spacea babblement amidst which the gongs of the trams, ploughing their obstinate way through the mass, rose like red poppies amidst corn.

Indeed it is often necessary to encourage them if a vat proves obstinate, and the colour refuses to comean event which occasionally does happen.

He showed me that the black and gangrened side of the body would soon be cured; that the putrefied flesh which had collected around the wounds represented heretics who divide one from the other in proportion as they increase; that the dead flesh was the figure of all who are spiritually dead, and who are void of any feeling; and that the ossified parts represented obstinate and hardened heretics.

"He'm sartain nothing but a fly-away," returned the obstinate black.

"'The skipper told me to stay 'ere,' he ses, looking obstinate.

He showed an obstinate to false rules of conduct.

The lover of horses and riding finds here a paradise of grassy glades, where he can gallop for miles on end, and tire the most obstinate of "pullers.

She took up her iron again, and turning an obstinate back to his remarks resumed her work.

It is capable of conquering the most obstinate and serious mental preoccupation, and it conquered Priam's.

The thirteenth century witnessed obstinate and sanguinary feuds between these two parties, each of which was alternately victorious.

Being actuated by somewhat more compassion than the former, one of the officers made us be untied, and having heard our story, blamed the cruelty with which we had been treated, and brought us to his tent, the same we now are in, and ordered something should be given for our refreshment; but my lady has continued obstinate to dye, and to that end has refused all subsistence.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  obstinate