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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

"I—" "Well then, say thirty pound," pertinaciously resumed the old man; "take thirteen from thirty—" "No, I can't then—really, I can't," desperately exclaimed Jones; "on my word I can't."

From Rachel Gray by Kavanagh, Julia

But she held out her hand pertinaciously, appealing to every passer-by of importance, and throwing audible curses after those that ignored her.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel

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)

This Court continues pertinaciously to insist on our ceding that navigation, nor will they, as yet, listen to any middle line.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various