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Nothing but Washington's tireless tenacity and loyalty held the army together, and kept the officers from resigning in disgust.
With grim humor, she headed her article, "Astonishing Tenacity of Life," as if it had only a scientific interest for anybody.
They cling to one with such leech-like tenacity, and can rarely be made to depart till they have accomplished their purposes.
They tore at the unyielding surface of ice with claws broken and bleeding, and, by sheer tenacity, ground out a purchase.
These threads, which are of extreme tenacity, are thrown out when the animal is irritated by contact with any strange body.
The African races alone have shown considerable tenacity of life and considerable power of putting on at any rate a veneer of civilization.
They had been inspired by the President with the same unreasoning tenacity and stubbornness that distinguished his own official conduct.
Moreover, his claws, which are remarkable both for length and tenacity, were clutched firmly against the bottom of the crevice.
Tenacity was William's greatest asset; when he adopted a line of action he "stayed with it," to use his own expressive phraseology.
From the windows they fired down upon their assailants, disputing the possession of each dwelling with the most dogged tenacity.
It maintains its ground by tenacity and contention, and engenders strife and discord where all before was peace and harmony.
These objectives were too far apart for a mutually supported attack and the Chinese defended the difficult terrain with tenacity.
He pursued it with superhuman tenacity and with all the resources of his fastidious mind, enslaved by the laws of mechanics.
A small Sioux band, fighting in a forest with great courage and tenacity, was gradually driven back by dismounted white troopers.
On the banks of some rivers this herbage assumes gigantic proportions, and by its tenacity opposes an effectual barrier to animals.
No virtue at all seems to have survived among all the many virtues attributed to our race except a bulldog courage and tenacity.
The secondary effect of the priest's address was to root the conviction of Arthur's danger with tenfold tenacity in her mind.
The Finns, or primitive inhabitants of the shores of the Baltic, were characterized by cunning and violence, united to an extraordinary tenacity.
It must possess distinctness of intuition, tenacity and facility in tracing logical connection, fertility of invention, and a strong tendency to generalization.
Ingenuity backed up by tireless tenacity, resourcefulness that absolutely refused to own either defeat or despair, triumphed over difficulties that seemed insuperable.
Frequently people, otherwise demented, display a wonderful tenacity of purpose and clearness of mind when they have a definite object in view.
Yet the relief which the slightest motion might induce is avoided with the tenacity which pain begets when operating upon excessive timidity.
This species of earth, though not remarkably dense, being of great tenacity, will not admit the particles of water to pass.
If only they seemed to him to be true, however, he held to them with a tenacity which his opponents branded as obstinacy.
Perhaps, too, this tenacity of the bygone will more naturally be found to be a characteristic of the universities, than of other corporations.
Next to his great size and excessive ferocity, one of the most striking peculiarities of this animal is his extreme tenacity of life.
This pigment has the property of forming with linseed oil a hard elastic coating, clinging with great tenacity to the metal.
They clung with ferocious tenacity to every position, and the fight at all times of the day was one of great stubbornness.
With such sanguinary fierceness of disposition and extraordinary tenacity of life, it is no wonder the grizzly bear is a creature to be dreaded.
He felt oddly convinced that it would be by means of strangling that Thor's quiet, awful tenacity of revenge would wreak itself.
Perhaps a proud determination to justify his former opinions lay less at the bottom of this obstinate tenacity than an unconscious stratagem.
He now gave proof of that tenacity of purpose, that inflexible will which she was wont to consider as exclusively her characteristic.
He was kneeling in front of Geoffrey Fleming's chair, clutching at either side of it with a tenacity which suggested some sort of convulsion.
The sage grass had the tenacity to stand a great deal of grazing and tramping over, and still grow to considerable perfection.
I have never before or since tasted such delicious wine, and in such profusion, and everybody stuck to it with such leech-like tenacity.
By a rule of influence, whose working is obvious, the tenacity of the Democratic adherents of Van Buren increased as the Whigs withdrew.
This provincial style of the peasant is again, like his physique, a remnant of history, to which he clings with the utmost tenacity.
He was a great man for the time and place, great in fearlessness, in self-reliance, in foresight, and in unflinching tenacity of purpose.
He clasps his sword with desperate tenacity, in which a foe might read his doom, and rushes on, crushing through the brushwood.
There is a distinctness of aim, a tenacity of purpose, a resolution in execution about the Fenian attack upon the police van which is very impressive.
Its successor, the lute, equally weak in tenacity of intonation, but with greater artistic resources, had been fully tested in every direction.
Individual philosophers have, over and over again, plunged with furious tenacity into the mystery of life with a complex vision distorted, deformed and over-balanced.
The long stretch over the desert would be wearisome and monotonous, but she had the slim, muscular tenacity of a half-grown boy.
He is, however, quarrelsome in his cups, and has all the native capacity for fancying an insult and much tenacity in revenge.
Sebastian, however, having little faith in oriental tenacity, entrusted the real work of storming the fortress to his own soldiers and sailors.
With a little industry and tenacity he could have been Prime Minister for twenty splendid years instead of for twenty embarrassed months.
He was a man with a bulldog tenacity of purpose, and he had no intention of wasting time on questions prompted by idle curiosity.
His high forehead was furrowed with the wrinkle that denoted the thinker, and his resolute bearing denoted energy combined with tenacity.
As already said he hit the mark fairly, and clung to Moses with a tenacity that was born of mingled love and desperation.
Of a strong and comprehensive mind, he has extraordinary tenacity of purpose, great self-reliance, and a power of labor equaled by few men.
With quiet tenacity, against conditions of discomfort which cannot be escaped, and carelessness of personal ease such men teach us how to live.
If any such expectation was theirs, they must have been new troops who had no knowledge of the dour tenacity of the Canadians.
While one's sympathy is with the shaggy bison host, still one cannot withhold admiration for the grit and tenacity of the wolf.
She had realized at last something of the depth, the tenacity, the rich, illimitable promise of the passion which she had roused.
In his Welsh campaigns he was soon to show a tenacity and force of will which wrested victory out of the midst of defeat.
Whether it were gold, poker, or life, he must cling to his purpose with a bulldog tenacity that no amount of distraction could loosen.
The masons had apparently depended upon the extreme tenacity and hardness of their cement, which bound the mass into a solid block.
The tenacity with which rooks cling to localities is often illustrated near great cities where buildings have gradually closed in around their favorite haunts.
It is well known with what tenacity they preserve the recollection of important events, and with what singular adherence to general truthfulness.
To appreciate the vista in time that this fact opens to our thoughts, we must recognize the tenacity of life manifested by these tongues.
Yet the English clung to these ruins with the tenacity of despair, and what they had lost they were determined to re-conquer.
Neither Northern tenacity nor Southern fire could win, and the sun began to droop over the field piled so thickly with bodies.
The jaws of the otter are so constructed, that even when dead it is difficult to separate them, as they adhere with the utmost tenacity.
Such tenacity of interest in the result and such absolute impartiality in discussing the evidence are not once in a century found in an individual.
It must have given the fat boy a considerable wrench when he gripped this, but he had clung with the tenacity of despair.
Indomitable courage, tenacity of purpose, breadth of vision, mastery of organization and detail marked him as one of the great railroad builders of the century.
She twitched her head, the small fingers gripped with unexpected tenacity; she frowned and fumed, but the eyes stared relentlessly on.
It formerly produced those remarkable Damascus swords, inimitable for hardness, elasticity, sharpness, and tenacity, as well as for the beauty of their ornamentation.
These overtures were promptly rejected, and the patriots made preparations to continue their struggle, adhering with tenacity to their one goal, complete independence.
In addition to this it is very ductile, but its tenacity is very slight, so that wire made from it will bear but little strain.
The strong, uncontrolled passions of generations of ancestors culminated in him in conscious power, plus a tenacity and stratagem that were his own.
He was rejected by the little inner clique that held the national reins, and held them with fevered tenacity, and drove hard.
These armies have fought for fourteen days without a moment's respite, and with an unshakable confidence in victory as the reward of their tenacity.
Its tenacity may be explained, among other things, by the living impression of the polytheism that surrounded the communities on every side.
The French troops, who had so far held their ground with splendid tenacity, now found the position more than they could support.
The Puritan congregations clung with tenacity to their peculiar tenets and usages, prominent among which was their invincible repugnance to artistic music.
He had been too sanguine, and had not made sufficient allowance for the tenacity of the fire where it once has fixed its grasp.
Need we wonder then that he clings to his darling measure, with a tenacity absolutely startling when we reflect on his former degrading versatility?
Economists were not wrong in ascribing so much influence as they always have done to men's tenacity in adhering to their customary standard of life.
This was owing to the fierceness of his principles, his tenacity in holding them, and the vigor with which he carried them out.
These animals live mostly in tropical and subtropical regions and are noted for the tenacity with which they retain their hold on life.
There is no denying the fact that the tenacity of its cortical fibers is scarcely if at all inferior to those of flax or hemp.
They had forgotten to reckon with the wonderful tenacity of life that makes a grizzly bear the hardest thing in the world to kill.
He met his problems as they came to him, took the course which he believed to be right and then stuck to it with indomitable tenacity.
It is the fact, nevertheless, that most of the survivors had enough courage and tenacity left doggedly to contest every inch of the way.
They are kind and sympathetic, easily moved by the attitude of others, quite simple-minded and honest, lacking tenacity, audacity, iron will, or cold deliberation.
And he pursued his thought with the tenacity of the drunkard, who concentrates upon one idea all the lucidity of mind left to him.
Its needs are modest, its habitat is circumscribed, and it clings with tenacity to its favorite haunts even when closely encroached upon by civilization.
The two teams, now evenly matched, sea-sawed back and forth, with grim, bulldog tenacity, but there the game hung in the balance.
Sheer tenacity of purpose maintained his hold on Victor's gun hand as he staggered back, dazed, and Margaret could not step aside in time.
Such, indeed, were rare among the Huguenots; for the dull peasants who guided the plow clung with blind tenacity to the ancient faith.
Indian names cling with peculiar tenacity to lakes and rivers; for those hunters knew all waters, and hunted beside all streams and lakes.
Yet it was his planning, his tenacity, his personal authority with French and Americans that determined the combined operation and made it successful.
Less quick and bright, perhaps, than the ladies over the sea, but more womanly, and full of a quiet tenacity of purpose better than eloquence.
The terrible heat, the tenacity of the vines and undergrowth seemed directed toward him personally, as he stumbled and fought his way along.
Our struggles against these out-run powers make thrilling stories, for they tested the courage, the resources, and the tenacity of the Pan-Angle victors.
The haggard-eyed, sleepless ones gained nothing by their tenacity, for they were pushed from pillar to post by others, fresh for the fray.
This is due in part to the tenacity with which the female adheres to normality, but also to the deviation caused in her criminality by prostitution.
Despite the tenacity and courage of the Dervish gunners, they were driven from their defenses and took refuge among the streets of the city.
It has great tenacity, and is not only absolutely damp-proof itself, but is actually repellent of moisture, to which all water pastes are subject.