Persevered

Examples

• They persevered with a degree of inflexibility scarcely paralleled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It made him so very unhappy, indeed, that it could not be persevered in. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I persevered, however, to the end, and as soon as I reached it, boldly asked the one important question-- What is your opinion, Mr. Kyrle? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• One girl alonequite in the background, persevered in the riot with undiminished energy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Miss Ophelia still persevered in her labors in the housekeeping line. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And yet you might have been a wealthy man if you had only persevered. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Miss Bingley, however, was incapable of disappointing Mr. Darcy in anything, and persevered therefore in requiring an explanation of his two motives. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was much harder work now, but Herbert and Startop persevered, and rowed and rowed and rowed until the sun went down. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was awkward work and hurt his bare feet, but he persevered until he had partially uncovered the body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Up to this hour he had persevered in his resolve not to invite her back. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They blindly persevered in their own schemes, and left to the colonists no alternative but opposition or unconditional submission. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The financial and commercial interests of the country were in panic; but the pool persevered in its effort to corner gold, with a profit of many millions contingent on success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But he persevered with this idea, and from time to time built other models. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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