1 He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.
2 I am as obstinate as one, I am more stupid than one, I get as much pleasure as one, and I should like to kick like one.
3 Tom Gradgrind, as your son, young Tom, refuses for some obstinate reason or other to say anything at all about those statements, good or bad, I am obliged to confront her with your daughter.
4 These reflections had tamed and brought down to a pitch of sounder judgment a temper, which, under other circumstances, might have waxed haughty, supercilious, and obstinate.
5 His armour bore all the marks of the late obstinate fray, being broken, defaced, and stained with blood in many places, and covered with clay and dust from the crest to the spur.
6 Fathers were ridiculous: his own obstinate one supremely so.
7 And they were cut off from their own class by the brooding, obstinate, shut-up nature of Sir Geoffrey, their father, whom they ridiculed, but whom they were so sensitive about.
8 Bumble shook his head, as he replied, 'Obstinate people, Mr. Sowerberry; very obstinate.'
9 She would not have been obstinate if I had not been weak.
10 She seemed to me to be obstinate; and when I found that you were nothing in her mind I vowed that she should be nothing in yours.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 11 She was always ready to forgive if asked to do so; but I seemed to her to be as an obstinate child, and that made her unyielding.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery" 12 "You were so very obstinate," said he.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 13 He is very decided, but never will be obstinate, if you reason kindly, not oppose impatiently.
14 I know how obstinate he is, and am sure he will not let you go; he will come down here to fetch you, and he will not go back without you.
15 We may, perhaps, succeed in restoring her to them, if she is not obstinate: but I trace lines of force in her face which make me sceptical of her tractability.