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

Count Edmund would have been wiser not so pertinaciously to have insisted on having his own way.

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

As to the success or failure of the venture of the impresario they are supremely indifferent, but pertinaciously continue to demand the utmost farthing, no matter how badly things may be going.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

"How so?" inquired Amy, hoping to gain some intelligence as to why her room was so pertinaciously kept closed.

From It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

As I treat them civilly by my silence, why persist thus pertinaciously in thrusting their claims upon my attention and then questioning my piety for not christening them?

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson