refractoriness
Example Sentences
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The refractoriness and the indolence of Frau Ceres were very serviceable, at first, in lending to the whole establishment an air of respectability.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
The walls of the pit were steeply, unstably irregular, varying in pitch and shape with the hardness and refractoriness of the strata composing them.
From The Vortex Blaster by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
It cannot be doubted that a certain refractoriness to form is a typical feature of the Basque character.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
They had proved but turbulent occupants, being in a constant state of refractoriness against their landlords, the bachelor brothers, who seemed to be somewhat in awe of them.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
Five babies at different stages of refractoriness are sprawling about on this strip of floor; they make noises all the time.
From Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India by Amy Carmichael
