Meanings of dog obstinacy in English

Longstreet was as famous for his bull- dog obstinacy, as Hill for his dash and enthusiasm.

William II is like his teacher Bismarck in the matter of dogged obstinacy.

His whole face was full of a dogged obstinacy.

A cold fire seemed to consume the man, inflaming his courage and his dogged obstinacy.

Had shown indeed, a dogged obstinacy and an irritability that were somehow oddly like fear.

Vinet departed, having put his plan into Sylvie's head, her dogged obstinacy being well-known to him.

He had a dogged obstinacy which would not allow him to retract what he had once said.

She was coming to the ball on Thursday night, he maintained with a dogged obstinacy worthy of Nelson.

The lesson was not at first grasped by Elijah, as his repetition of his complaint, word for word, with almost dogged obstinacy, shows.

The dogged obstinacy with which attempt after attempt was made by the villains made them imagine they were unsafe in such a lonely place.

There was a spice of dogged obstinacy in Vane, which, although on the whole it made for success, occasionally drove him into needless difficulties.

But it will give the reader an idea of the dogged obstinacy and surliness of the lad's character, when I mention one trait regarding him.

Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.

He did not care to face St. Luc, his letter lost, and the curious, dogged obstinacy that lay at the back of his character prevailed.