cussedness

Now and again we got to do things for cussedness, honey boy.

I've always called you Jane but that may be just pure cussedness.

As always, only their own cussedness could change that.

He was now so tired that only sheer cussedness kept him going.

He'd seen enough combat to expect every possible thing to go wrong out of pure cussedness.

What had he been telling Tansy about the cussedness of things?

Yet, out of cussedness and pride, they still wore their green jackets.

Say rather the cussedness of the human nervous system!

"He probably counted on the natural cussedness of kids to do it for him," Eric pointed out.

She was either too scared now to answer, or wouldn't talk out of pure cussedness.

Most coaches of schools on probation stick it out from sheer cussedness.

Again, though, lawyer's instinct or perhaps plain cussedness made him add, "You did say something silly."

You were just fooled by the cussedness of things."

It was like the cussedness of things that he should go breaking the leg of a friend.

There are many times when illness, death and even cussedness provoke in us negative inclinations toward others.

There's no other machine that can set type eight hours with only seventeen minutes' stoppage through cussedness.

"Well - who knows - maybe human beings will last that long, just on the basis of pure cussedness.

It was what you would say was sheer cussedness.

Trip fought back, maintaining a handhold on the door out of sheer cussedness.

And the sheer, stubborn cussedness that still made him cling to life despite the agony amazed her.

Which was really the point of this entire exercise- there was nothing anybody could do about Debra's alleged cussedness.

God grant that she may never find out the innate cussedness of things and of men!"

Full of vinegar and all-round cussedness, but without malice.

He just done it outa pure cussedness and himself.

I still think it's rooted in human cussedness,' Wingate said stubbornly.