What is "dogged"

Usage examples of "dogged".

But this is his own thing to bear, from a force he set into motion long ago, a chindi which has dogged his heels across the years.

Nimbly as a mermaid on her first date, Captain van der Decken raced across the deck with Einstein and Carstairs in dogged pursuit.

Inside city walls, dogged by strings of equerries sent with supply lists, and accosted by pedigree garrison captains who demanded to be billeted indoors, Lord Commander Diegan met harassed city ministers and strove to placate upset tempers.

What compassion, what tenderness, what sensitiveness in the affecting picture of the mother Halictus, abandoned, deprived of her offspring, bewildered and lost, when the terrible spring fly has destroyed her house: bald, emaciated, shabby, careworn, already dogged by the small grey lizard!

After the fury of their initial exchange, Uskban and Haz, both master swordsmen, settled down to a dogged no-quarter duel.

A less zealous, optimistic and dogged individual than he would not have even supposed that, so years after the Hearts had emigrated east from Vegas, that city of all American cities phantasmagoric and insubstantial as a delirium hallucination, there could be any trace, any vestigial memory of them.

At this moment, Legree sauntered up to the door of the shed, looked in, with a dogged air of affected carelessness, and turned away.

Every time I thought about my clients, about the difficulties they faced and how to support them, I was dogged by the echoes of the Metcalfe case.

The telephone was ringing when she got there, ringing with a kind of dogged petulance, its arms prissily folded.

We sizzled and slashed top-to-bottom for a while but the wipeout came hard and we were both dogged bad.

I soon felt sure that my steps were dogged, as I saw the same shadowy figures at a little distance off.

He knew that this bunkroom, like all compartments on the ship, was sealed air-tight and pressure-tight when its oval hatch was dogged, setting in action the emergency oxygen supply.

He obtained ten bushels of corn of the churlish and treacherous natives, who closely watched and dogged the expedition.

And through it all, that weary, dogged crank must be kept turning--turning from dark to daylight.

Sir Ferdinando hence appears at every stage, and in every phase, of the Leyden movement, from the mission of Weston to Holland, to the landing at Cape Cod, and every movement clearly indicates the crafty cunning, the skilful and brilliant manipulation, and the dogged determination of the man.