obstreporous

Updated: May 21, 2025

Harper, bestowing a little less of his attention on his wife, and more on the obstreporous pony, who, in regard to a certain turn of the road, had grown peculiarly wrong-headed. "Don't'ee give in, sir! T'Squire bought he o' Miss Valery, and she do gi' un their own way, terrible bad," hinted the groom.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Agatha's Husband: A Novel

But the fact remains that the Slavs do not readily co-operate, and as nations have little of the modern sense for "team-work." Take the case of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia's obstreporous northern neighbour. Both have been raised from the dead at the same time, and are brothers in resurrection. Both have great capacity to help one another.

Stephen Graham - Europe—Whither Bound?: Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921