What is "doggedly"

Usage examples of "doggedly".

Marriage to Andre changed me, she thought one evening at a bal rnasqugiven by Princess Lieven, as she watched Simon waltzing with Caro Kenilworth, who was still doggedly pursuing him with a view to marriage.

She dodged and circled as the longfangs, snarling now with its head lowered and its parted jaws slavering menacingly, pursued her doggedly, its eyes sometimes a lionlike gold, and sometimes cold white lamps of all-too-wise light.

Jackson had been a little surprised to find that so many Livers stuck doggedly to voting for Shockey, even as they accepted bribes from the other side.

The young Harpy seemed to have finished her assigned duties and now moved among the poles and Faces only for amusement, Mavin still following doggedly, her curiosity keeping her close behind.

Obie Yount spent the morning painfully but doggedly practicing with his cannonballs.

When snow covered the prairies and freezing winds with temperatures far below zero swept in from the west where the mountains stood, Rufous stayed alone, turning his matted head into the storm and doggedly waiting until the blizzard subsided.

The TBDs, flat on the water among the antiaircraft bursts and splashes and under the swooping fighters, circled doggedly for a shot at her port beam.

Between those sessions, Monday and Quincy worked on new routines with the three Chinese, the elephant and the teeterboard, and Sunday went doggedly on with her language lessons.

So with the Zeros still attacking, and Garlow doggedly giving them burst for burst, he opened up on his radio and announced the two hits, giving position, course and speed of the enemy force.

The soldiers fought doggedly, attacking the amphibians in small bands, while the Rillyti battled each for himself.

Though hustled and broken they re-formed and clung doggedly to their task, firing at the groups of Boers who surrounded the guns.

In his corduroy jacket and bowtie he felt mercifully remote from the dark-suited businessmen ranged opposite him, most of them doggedly studying the City news.

There were a lot of tall Uprights, many squat habilines, and some Waganda: men, women, and children who limped doggedly through the darkness, intense heat, and live steam, serving the heap as if it were some ugly god.

The women are doggedly stedfast in their will, and till matters are settled, look like hedgehogs, with every quill raised, and firmly set, as if to forbid the approach of any one who might wish to rub them down.

I agreed entirely with him, of course, but continued to hurl the packets doggedly while somewhere in the back of my mind a little voice kept enquiring how James Herriot, Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and trainee pilot, had ever got into this.