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And there was an end of it. In this case, as so often, I have no doubt that simple curiosity went for much in the man's pertinacious questioning.
That pertinacious man achieved his end at last, and what his few enemies declared was guile, and his many friends held to be tact, won Nelly to him a year after her adventure with Mr. Gurd.
We had no sooner set foot on deck, however, than we felt almost thankful to the pertinacious little wretches for having driven us there, for a scene at once burst upon us of such singular and bewitching beauty as I certainly had never up to that time looked upon.
Certainly, if the confederates of this roving gipsy were so pertinacious in tormenting poor weak Mr. Mompesson, their pertinacity is a most extraordinary instance of what revenge is capable of. It was believed by many, at the time, that Mr.
So pertinacious and virulent were the attacks thus launched at him, coinciding as they did, at least in one point, with the prejudices of the multitude, that they were commonly believed to have had some share in driving Lord Bute from office, which, in the spring of 1763, he suddenly resigned, hoping, as it might almost seem, thus to throw on his successor the burden of defending his measures.
"I will answer one other question, and no more," said the Jinnee, in an inflexible tone; and Ventimore realised that his fate would depend upon what he said next. "Thy second question, O pertinacious one?" said the Jinnee, impatiently.
Cassius was certainly abolished; he was buried. But after scarcely five years the desert nomads were as active as ever and they have grown so pertinacious and cocky that something must be done. I don't want to go myself, and I feel no confidence in my ability to accomplish anything if I went. I have been on the rack to decide whom to send.
Ah, Captain Baldry, Giles Arden, good Humphrey, give you welcome! Here's room for Englishmen. Well, die, then, pertinacious señor! Now, now, Henry Sedley, there are lions yet in your path, but not so many. Have at their golden banner an you prize the toy! No, Arden, no let him take it single-handed.
Keep the money, principal and interest, until I demand it of thee." "But," continued the pertinacious Borderer, "we are a' life-like and death-like, Elshie, and there really should be some black and white on this transaction. Sae just make me a minute, or missive, in ony form ye like, and I'se write it fair ower, and subscribe it before famous witnesses.
'And is it my business to discover that explanation? 'Can it be mine? 'It must either be yours, Rhoda, or no one's. I shall take no single step in the matter. The battle was declared. Each stood at full height, pertinacious, resolved on victory. 'You are putting yourself wildly in the wrong, Everard continued.
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