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
He strove for it pertinaciously, however, for some time; and hazarded something himself in order to obtain that object.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
She hardly grasped it, but child-like returned pertinaciously to her business in hand.
From Jill's Red Bag by Amy Le Feuvre
The notion that England was justified in throwing on America part of the expenses caused in the late war was popular in the country, and no one adopted it more pertinaciously then George III.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
"Then he's alive," said Clarence pertinaciously, and looking at her.
From The Mandarin's Fan by Fergus Hume
