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Meanings of own obstinacy in English

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Usage of own obstinacy in English
1
I wonder, when I look back at it, at my own obstinacy.
The Law and the Lady
2
Some people would say, you have given a fine description of your own obstinacy, child.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
3
The only agents were your uncle's hostility and his own obstinacy which would not study compromise.
Captain Blood
4
She keenly enjoyed this struggle between the horse's strength and her own determination, her own obstinacy.
A Man's Woman
5
Allan almost wondered at his own obstinacy.
A Daughter of Fife
6
This success the Medici owed mainly to their own obstinacy, and to the weakness of republican institutions in Florence.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
7
The Emperor groaned under the burden of an accident which he had to attribute solely to his own obstinacy.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 08
8
She sighed deeply as she thought of the doom to which his own obstinacy had condemned that remarkable man.
The Leopard Woman
9
I know my own obstinacy.
Lazarre
10
Those who had been his enemies were either dead through their own obstinacy, or were alive through his generosity.
Caesar: A Sketch
11
It was all my own obstinacy and a sort of dogged feeling that made me feel I couldn't give in.
Robbery under Arms / A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush a...
12
He could see his own obstinacy, and could even hate the pretentious love of virtue which he had himself displayed.
The Prime Minister
13
I reproached myself with my own obstinacy for having resisted the advice of Mr. Burges, as has been before explained.
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
14
My friend could not complain much, even to me, feeling that these miseries had been produced by his own obstinacy.
North America — Volume 2
15
She is trying to rush him, he puts it to himself; and the thought rouses all his own obstinacy and self-will.
Six Women
16
He began all at once to pity her, to think of her as a sacrifice to her father's selfishness, his own obstinacy.
The Lovels of Arden
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