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She questioned with skill and pertinacity, and elicited many more details than Nancy Lord had been able to gather. 'You'll promise me not to say a word to any one? pleaded Horace. 'I won't open my lips. But you're quite sure she's as old as you say? 'Old enough to be my mother, I assure you. The girl's suspicions were not wholly set at rest, but she made no further display of them.
"On reflection, then, did not plaintiff think he must have been under an illusion?" No; he had gone by direct evidence. Confining himself sagaciously to this one question, and exerting all his skill and pertinacity, Saunders succeeded in convincing the court that the Hard Cash was a myth: a pure chimera. The defendant's case looked up; for there are many intelligent madmen with a single illusion.
The obstinacy of hatred was being gradually overcome by the superior pertinacity of zeal in a good cause, and the invariable practice so incomprehensible to the savage mind of returning good for evil; the result was, that the Sabbath bell still sent its tinkling sound over the verdant slopes above Sandy Cove, and the hymn of praise still arose, morning and evening, from the little church, which, composed partly of wood, partly of coral rock, had been erected under the eye, and, to a large extent, by the hands of the missionary.
The policy was almost uniformly successful: the one exception was the Sanhedrim of the Jews, which obstinately refused the imperial cult and resisted Caligula's effort to introduce his statue with the same successful pertinacity as had repelled the efforts of Antiochus Epiphanes in the days of the Maccabees.
At last worried by the pertinacity of one bolder and clumsier than all the rest, he took him by the shoulders and bundled him out of his room, and the insulted ambassador, as he called himself, wrote to his employer a particularly spiteful account of his reception, with sundry embellishments perhaps more picturesque than strictly accurate. The next thing that Mr.
The sturdy Smith resisted her appeal, and did not withdraw his eyes from the face of the stockman, who seemed slightly discomposed at the pertinacity of his intended son-in-law. The old man hesitated and muttered to himself, and at length appeared to recover sufficient confidence to speak.
In most cases, the offending party is the last to be reconciled; and mistake is frequently adhered to with an obstinacy, and defended with a pertinacity, proportioned to the haste with which it has been adopted. Look inward. What is the present state of your minds respecting the errors you have committed, or the wrong steps you have taken, and of which you are deeply conscious?
'Of course I must look thin if I am thin, said Elizabeth, a good deal annoyed by Harriet's pertinacity. 'Thin you are, indeed, continued Harriet, taking hold of her wrist.
"May thy days be multiplied," answered the Hakim. "Strange pertinacity," said the King, gazing after him as he departed, "in this Hakim to interfere between this Scot and the chastisement he has merited so richly. Yet, let him live! there is one brave man the more in the world." IV. The Victory of Sir Kenneth
But besides the notoriety of his public corruption, Lord Vargrave was secretly suspected by some of personal dishonesty, suspected of selling his State information to stock-jobbers, of having pecuniary interests in some of the claims he urged with so obstinate a pertinacity.
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