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

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

He had deliberately lied even on his death-bed, in order to thrust away the distasteful subject to which Colonel Tempest had so pertinaciously nailed him.

From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary

But she held out her hand pertinaciously, appealing to every passer-by of importance, and throwing audible curses after those that ignored her.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel

She hardly grasped it, but child-like returned pertinaciously to her business in hand.

From Jill's Red Bag by Le Feuvre, Amy