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Updated: July 16, 2025
"You stay at home, Tony dear. You're a valetudinarian. I'll look after myself." But this could not be done. I have my obstinacies as mulish as other people's. "If you go, I go." "As you have, according to your pampered habit, bought a car from now till midnight, I don't see how we can fail to keep dry and warm." I had no argument left. Of course, I hate to swallow an early and rapid dinner.
Only there is a forbidding north wind, they say. Don't be vexed with me, dear Mr. Kenyon. You know there are obstinacies in the world as well as mortalities, and thereto appertaining. And then you will perceive through all mine, that it is difficult for me to act against your judgment so far as to put my own tenacity into print. Ever gratefully and affectionately yours, E.B.B.
So likewise to his third Parliament, in similar rebuke for their pedantries and obstinacies. Most rude, chaotic, all these Speeches are; but most earnest-looking. You would say, it was a sincere helpless man; not used to speak the great inorganic thought of him, but to act it rather! A helplessness of utterance, in such bursting fulness of meaning.
Yet he had nothing for him but a gruff: "Now what do you think you're here for?" Dick was prepared for repulse, this or any other. He had armed himself against all possible whims and obstinacies, and he wore the air of a carefully adjusted patience. "Can't I help there?" he inquired, advancing to the table and drawing up a chair.
She describes Lomaque, in her quaint foreign English, as "a brave, big heart"; generous, affectionate, and admirably free from the small obstinacies and prejudices of old age, except on one point: he could never be induced to take his coffee, of an evening, from any other hand than the hand of Sister Rose.
"Surely you don't want to go into all that to-night," said Sophia. She spoke softly, for she had already fully perceived that Mr. Critchlow must be managed with the tact which the capricious obstinacies of advanced age demanded. "Surely you can wait a day or two. I'm in no hurry." "HAVEN'T I WAITED LONG ENOUGH?" he retorted fiercely. There was a pause. Maria Critchlow moved.
All he knows is that a Frankenstein machinery has been set in motion for the destruction of the world; to counteract it he is creating another piece of machinery. He has set about his job in just the same spirit that he set about overcoming the difficulties of the Panama Canal. He has been used to overcoming the obstinacies of Nature; the human obstinacies of his new task intrigue him.
Tricks, peculation, obstinacies, vanities after this war men will still be men. But I do believe that through all the dust and din, the great reasons in the case, the steady constructive forces of the situation, will carry us.
The situation stirred the spleen of Senator Hanway. It was discouraging to have those identical tariff triumphs, which had been intended as an argument favorable to himself, give birth to a rival; one also who, for his geography and the popularity which those personal obstinacies and thick-skulled integrities invoked, might work a grave disturbance in his plans.
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