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

But although he affected to treat the whole affair as unworthy of a thought, it yet haunted him pertinaciously, tormenting him with perplexing doubts, and depressing him with undefined apprehensions.

From In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Here at Padua is the principal Professor of Philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, which he pertinaciously refuses to do.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

"Then he's alive," said Clarence pertinaciously, and looking at her.

From The Mandarin's Fan by Hume, Fergus