Lexicographical Neighbors of Obdurates
Literary usage of Obdurates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Resultful Letter Writing by Robert Ruxton (1918)
"Follow-Up letters deal with two classes of people in the main: First, the obdurates,
who have failed to respond to the first sales letter and booklet; and, ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1885)
"... of every hundred boys committed who are a distinct class of obdurates, who
require special treatment, and who should be treated as a class by themselves ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
"... in a mysterious, murky, evil-smelling outhouse, when heartless obdurates
decline to let him wear out with friction their secondhand shoo leather. ..."
4. William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life by Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison (1885)
"The hearts of some individuals are like ice, congealed by the frigidity of a
wintry atmosphere that surrounds, envelopes and obdurates. ..."
5. The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations by William Petty, John Graunt (1899)
"... which shame for ever after obdurates the Offender, what ever it work upon such
whose fames are yet intire : Of all which men take little consideration, ..."
6. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1885)
"... of every hundred boys committed who are a distinct class of obdurates, who
require special treatment, and who should be treated as a class by themselves ..."
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