Dogged

At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.

Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.

"I'm afraid I've given him a heap of trouble. You see," he explained, looking at Paul critically, "I never thought of eating before I left town, and one gets so dogged hungry, you know walking. I say it is a long tramp, isn't it?"