We know how, the divine plan was frustrated by the stubbornness of the Jews, who rejected the corner-stone of the building, to be themselves dashed against its walls and destroyed.
Hence the greater number of writers, chiefly English, who have treated of Irish affairs, unhesitatingly call them barbarians, precisely on account of their stubbornness in rejecting the advances of the Anglo-Norman invaders.
A village, although the buildings were almost levelled by the accurate gunfire of the British, was still being held with the utmost stubbornness by the Huns.
And they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, and they walked individually in the stubbornness of their evil heart.
Behold, the greatness of thy sins cannot hinder; let not the stubbornness of thy heart hinder thee, sinner.
This is one of Bunyan's peculiarly affecting representations, which in preaching went to the heart, producing intense interest, and tears of contrition over the stubbornness of human nature.
But, being once involved, there was a stubbornness in his nature that would not allow him to retract, and he suffered himself to hope, rather than expect, a favourable issue.
He had the long-headedness and stubbornness of his Scotch parents, united with the daring and ingenuity peculiar to Americans.
Argue as he would, Mr. Pinkerton could not beat down the stubbornness of his denials.
Joe was a fine, sturdy young man, but his father still ruled him with an unbending stubbornness that he believed to be a necessary exercise of authority.
That they will not agree I know; but I have no intention of sacrificing Egypt to the stubbornness of two persons.
So much the worse is such a pharaoh for us," interposed Mefres, with the stubbornness peculiar to old men.
The stubbornness of the nation at home, of the men and the women, is no less necessary to the great end.
British temper in defence of "doing as it likes," when no spark of an ideal motive fires it; and also brings out its equal stubbornness to-day in support of a cause which it feels to be supreme over the individual interest and will.
When he returns home worried by the cares of business, he finds no consolation in Ida's sympathy, but is vexed by her stubbornness and offended by her coldness.
His stubbornness still persisted in the opinion that Angela had her failings, which, if manifested, would obscure the external brilliancy of her appearance, but which remained hidden from view.
With a peculiar stubbornness which struggles to maintain a favorite conviction, he closed the diary.
Rosy had submitted up to a certain point and then, with the stubbornness of a weak creature, had stood at timid bay for her young.
As she liked now the red-brown colour of his eyes and saw beauty in his rugged features, so she liked his British stubbornness and the pride which would not be beaten.
And such a splendid army, such heroic soldiers and officers, to be sacrificed to the ignorant stubbornness of sham military science!
The stubbornness of the troops, the stubbornness of General Thomas saved the day.
Rosecrans has revealed all the higher qualities of a captain; coolness, resolution, stubbornness and inspiration.
But the soldiers of the Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Irish Rifles in this hour displayed a steadiness above all praise--a stubbornness and endurance which proved their splendid quality, and showed them equal to any work when well led.
The unruly son was slain, not because he ate and drank: but on account of his stubbornness and rebellion, which was always punished by death, as stated above.
The fourth degree was when a man sinned from stubbornness or obstinacy: and then he was to be utterly cut off as a rebel and a destroyer of the commandment of the Law [*Cf.
You know our friend Herb has a touch of stubbornness in his make-up.
In Congress, in the session of 1902, the Republican organization had shown the stubbornness with which any opening in the tariff wall would be opposed.
Yet this samestubbornness carried the South through the twenty trying years after the war.
The convention at Chicago was marked by the fight of Conkling to secure unity and the nomination for Grant, and by the stubbornness with which the opposing delegates held out against a third term and for their own candidates.
The cowboy, by sheer force of his personality, dominated the now repentant Corliss, whose stubbornness had given way to tearful retraction and reiterated apology.
Having that stubbornness so frequently associated with timidity, he plodded on, determined to top the hill before morning.
Yet they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart.
Having failed to reach the gap, the Germans, with that stubbornness of the offensive which characterizes them, tried to take Nancy.
Flemish and French, we have stubbornness in common.
This racial stubbornness of Europe--perhaps it keeps Europe powerful in jealous competition of race with race.
There was, besides, in that pursuit such uncommon stubbornness and impetuosity passing the usual measure of war, that Boguslav with his native quickness divined after a few days that some inexorable personal enemy was following him.
But the stubbornness of the king when once roused reckoned with nothing and no man.
Stern daring and immeasurable stubbornness had won for him consideration among the disorderly.
I know well that there is a party in the fortress which is long desirous of surrender, and that only our weakness on one side and the superhuman stubbornness of the prior on the other keep it in check.
