1 Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of his cavalry would have been as solid as he.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 2 Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 3 The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most tenacious by her obstinacy.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE 4 Her affections were not acute, nor was her mind tenacious.
5 He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 6 "That is a tenacious old grandfather," said Beauchamp.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault. 7 While earnestly wishing to erase from his mind the trace of my former offence, I had stamped on that tenacious surface another and far deeper impression, I had burnt it in.
8 Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none of its honeyed firmness and softness.
9 And she deduced the essentials of his wishes quite correctly, and having once arrived at them clung to them tenaciously.
10 Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT