pertinaciously

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“Miss Eyre, I repeat it, you can leave me. How often am I to say the same thing? Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit?”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Her embarrassment was not greatly relieved by perceiving,—when at length she looked up to save herself from the awkwardness of pertinaciously looking down,—that the eyes of Lady Stephenson were earnestly fixed upon her.

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Yet conscience pertinaciously presented the injunction?"first be reconciled to thy brother."

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan

This Court continues pertinaciously to insist on our ceding that navigation, nor will they, as yet, listen to any middle line.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various

How can you cling so pertinaciously to this fancy, or attach such importance to a mere word?

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)