It may be pertinacity, but to my eye these grey hills, and all this wild Border Country have beauties peculiar to themselves.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
At times I forgot my original reason for keeping her at arm's-length-her forwardness, pertinacity, and racial hunger for the rags and bones and old bottles of gossip; and that she "spelt" to be asked was in itself reason enough for ignoring her hints.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
She refused to allow them to approach her at first, but her resistance was useless, and finding that without violence there were no means of overcoming their tolerably good-humoured pertinacity, she submitted, wearily telling them to do what they pleased, when one, the most friendly, insisted upon taking down her magnificent hair.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn