refractoriness

Example Sentences

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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

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 Carmichael, Amy

An act of oblivion, as I may call it, shall pass upon all your former refractoriness: and you will once more make us happy in you, and in one another.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel

It is altogether a mistake," said Mrs. Heiberg, absorbed in counting her stitches, "altogether a mistake that genius is marked by restlessness, refractoriness, an irregular life, or the like.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

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