"Perverseness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of November next as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to our beneficent Father, who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne
... to save thee from her, foolish wench!" cried Mother Chattox, "but thy perverseness will defeat all ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... meanly flatter them with the name of a free people, and make a merit of his crime, under the disguise of their essential rights and permanent interests, is something which disgraces even the character of perverseness. Is he afraid they will send him to Hanover, or what does he fear? Why is the sycophant thus added to the hypocrite, and the man who pretends to govern, sunk into the humble ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine
... the parents to a state of slavery. They suffered many hardships during several years, but at length God was pleased to deliver them in a miraculous manner by the hand of Moses, who would soon have conducted them into the promised land, had not their disobedience and perverseness brought upon them the punishment of a forty years' wandering in the wilderness. During this time, God commanded Moses to deliver his laws to the people of Israel. Aaron the brother of Moses was made High Priest, and to him was committed ...
— A Week of Instruction and Amusement, • Mrs. Harley
... she fought down the kindly feeling. "I am glad of it," said she, out of perverseness. She added after a while, "Edouard, you are ...
— White Lies • Charles Reade
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