She wrote a long letter to her brother-much more confidential than her letters to him had lately been-telling him how much she had suffered on his behalf, and describing to him with great energy the perverseness, malignity, and general pigheadedness of her late friend.
"The Claverings"
Anthony Trollope
pigheadedness had made Don Anastasio guilty, why shouldn't perjury make him innocent?
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Blunt and difficult to lead, not out of hardness of heart or obstinate pigheadedness, but as Burns has put it: "For the glorious priviledge Of being independant."
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs