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"Since he could not look to decrepit relatives in Delhi for further allowances, and as the British Government proved equally obdurate, the prince found it necessary to calculate upon all possible sources of income. "In such speculations, therefore, the unhappy Ram Lal became an object of logical interest.
She ardently wished to appease and to quiet him, and regretted the necessity of appearing obdurate and unfeeling, even more, at that moment, than the separation itself. To a mind priding in its purity, and animated in its affections, few sensations can excite keener misery, than those by which an apprehension is raised of being thought worthless or ungrateful by the objects of our chosen regard.
Now they were settled for the evening, and she was learning to knit, twisting obdurate wool round anarchic needles, while Mrs. Marston the pink shawl top chanted: 'Knit, purl! Knit, purl! 'Will it come to aught ever? queried Hazel. 'It's nought but a tail o' string now! 'It will come to anything you like to make, dear, said the old lady.
While the one is traced in characters of mercy, the other is written in letters of light. While the one reveals the grandeur, and the other the sweetness of the work of grace, both concur in proclaiming the triumph of its omnipotence. In obdurate wills subdued, the conquests of grace are often hard to win. In the docile souls of the early sanctified, its task is easy.
He would dissemble. "How could that possibly be?" "I don't mind telling you that the last time I offered myself the young lady appeared a trifle less obdurate. She shook her head, but I thought I observed signs of wavering faint, yet appreciable. If now I could only put her under an obligation and thus convince her of my effectiveness, I am confident I could win her."
After Lee's friends have shared in his discovery I may change my mind." All arguments and pleading were in vain; he remained obdurate and insisted on her locating two other claims for herself, one on each of the smaller creeks where they came together above the house. "But nobody ever stakes more than one claim on a gulch," objected the girl. "It's a custom of the miners."
That prohibition cut him, for at that time he had the makings of a voluminous letter-writer. Yet it was only what one might expect. The whole world was unpropitious obdurate indeed.... A splendid isolation
On December 11, 1758, she went in person to the States-General, "with tottering steps and death in her face," to endeavour to secure unity of action in the presence of the national danger, but without achieving her object. The maritime provinces were obdurate.
I can give you nothing else till you have taken this." "Then go!" she snapped out. But the "o-o-o" was prolonged into a wail as a particularly pernicious jab in the midst of her duodenum-"a providential thrust," Dr. Bond said doubled her up, if rotundity can be said to double. The Doctor was obdurate. Colic was trumps and won!
"You're like all the men. You can't play fair. Men don't know how." That stung him. "Fair or unfair, you've done all the playing so far," he said. "If you thought I was such a tame fool as to put up with it well, that's not my fault." "No, it's never your fault," said Toby. She made a little vehement movement to extricate herself, but finding him obdurate, abandoned the attempt.
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