"Perversity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the fellow had gone wrong more through ignorance than perversity, and that it was a stubbornness of spirit rather than a badness of heart that kept him from going right. He sometimes wondered whether it was not more a baffled wish to be justified in his own esteem ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... see them grope their way to their mother's side, and turning their sightless eyes toward her, ask, in childish accents,—'Mamma, what made the naughty man put out our eyes?' Well, the woman, with a singular perversity of human nature, liked me, and commenced to place herself under my protection. She could be of service to me; but her children were likely to prove a burden—and so I got ...
— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn
... enough by report of the French Court to cause her to shrink instinctively, as from a repulsive insect, at the name of the mistress of Louis XV. She trembled at the thought of Angelique's infatuation, or perversity, in suffering herself to be attracted by the glitter of the vices ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... in a carriage," said the doctor, who for some unaccountable reason had taken a fit of perversity,—"I understand he was in ...
— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner
... was something elusive about Mrs. Oke, which made it next to impossible to speak seriously with her; and besides, I was by no means sure that any interference on my part would not merely animate her perversity. ...
— Hauntings • Vernon Lee
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