Persisted

Examples

• She persisted until she finally conquered the elephant's prejudices, and now they are inseparable friends. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It would not do, of course, to say that all these distinctions persisted in full technical definiteness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This course, persisted in, will soon make a prodigious difference in the quantity of wool. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You persisted in working, you overdid it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Her path, in short, seemed to smooth itself before her as she advanced; yet the faint stir of uneasiness persisted. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Has he ever persisted in anything except from contradiction? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr Merdle and his noble guest persisted in prowling about at opposite ends of the perspective. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• First she shrank from remark; and, if persisted in, she, with her own peculiar _hauteur_, repelled it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Dorothea quietly persisted in spite of remonstrance and persuasion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Still, by way of punishing her elder nephew, Miss Crawley persisted in being gracious to the young Oxonian. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It was all Bute's collar-bone, she persisted in saying; if that had not broke, I never would have left her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Handsomer than Thomasin Yeobright, the reddleman persisted, saying to himself, God forgive a rascal for lying! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He will be a prodigious inconvenience to me, still persisted Mr. Home. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I got this place, sir, persisted my talkative old friend, through the clerk before me leaving it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But the unconscious state of patience persisted in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What, then, if the passion persisted, though the other motive had ceased to sustain it? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• So it is that the Jews have persisted as a people while Hellenism has become a universal light for mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was very aggravating; but, throughout the interview, Joe persisted in addressing Me instead of Miss Havisham. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They persisted in withdrawing for the specified time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mrs. Shaw and Edith could hardly make enough of Margaret, on her return to what they persisted in calling her home. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This young man has persisted in waiting, sir, saying you would be glad to see him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In the meantime, it was my business to find out whether Mr. Franklin persisted in his resolution to leave us by the afternoon train. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Yes, but look'ee here, he persisted. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• So the Doctor persisted in making the engagement for her, and Mr. Jack Maldon was to come back to dinner. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The more I made faces and gestures to him to do it, the more confidential, argumentative, and polite, he persisted in being to Me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The other, ill-contented with this reticence, would have persisted in his questioning, but the old man, seeing this, shut him up sharply. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• At first the whelp would not draw any nearer, but persisted in remaining up there by himself. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• But to the best of thy knowledge, persisted Gutenberg. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• One can't help wondering at some things, she persisted. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The more firmly Sergeant Cuff kept his thoughts shut up from me, the more firmly I persisted in trying to look in at them. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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