refractoriness
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And he only gave way after Bartek's refractoriness also had been softened by unusual eloquence on Porankiewicz's part.
From More Tales by Polish Authors by Various
During the reign of King William, Colonel Romer advised the fortification of Rhode Island, which he says had never been done "by reason of the mean condition and refractoriness of the inhabitants."
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
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
There was only one part of his progress in which Carefinotu showed refractoriness; that was in learning the English language.
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne
Calvin and Farel resisted; their political enemies made a pretext of this refractoriness to exile them from Geneva, whence they were banished for some years.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
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