But Alfieri, once awakened out of that strange long torpor of his youth, was able to put forth as active and invincible forces all that extraordinary obstinacy, that morose doggedness, that indifference to comfort and pleasure, that brutal violence which had more than once, in their negative condition, made him seem more like some wild animal or half-savage monomaniac than an ordinary young man under five-and-twenty.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
If that purpose is not fulfilled-" he paused a moment and she felt his eyes upon her again-"I shall come straight back," he ended with a certain doggedness of determination that did not escape her.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
It was his turn to shudder, but he repeated with doggedness in his tone: "I have forgotten nothing."
"The Last Woman"
Ross Beeckman