Persevering

Examples

• I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly--persevering, self-reliant, self-denying! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The Chartered Gas Company, established by Mr. Winsor's persevering efforts, has served as the guiding star to all other gas companies in the world. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• On Miss Lucas's persevering, however, she added, Very well, if it must be so, it must. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But for his having been so patient and persevering for so long a time, we never could have hoped to do anything worth speaking of. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I will be cool, persevering, and prudent. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He is a superb little fellow, especially in his caps, and most especially in the one you sent him, you good, dainty-fingered, persevering little lady! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Let me hope that you will rescind that resolution about the horse, Miss Brooke, said the persevering admirer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have known numbers of good, persevering, honest people come there through misfortune. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The prize has gone to that persevering one who has made that trail his own, and learned its secret while other men were only glancing at it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Diligent, persevering, steady, acute in business. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Prior had his own reasons, however, for persevering in the course of temperance which he had adopted. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She would come and talk to me about them with an infatuated and persevering dotage, strange to behold in a person not yet twenty-five. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Had his choice been less unexceptionable, I should have condemned his persevering. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I did not think of comparing you: such power of persevering devoted labor as Mr. Casaubon's is not common. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But, in his own tongue, and in his own head, Mr Meagles was a clear, shrewd, persevering man. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But if you married Mr. Ladislaw, not anybody else, Celia went on with persevering quietude. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They are quite true, returned Celia, who had her reasons for persevering, though she was beginning to be a little afraid. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This gentleman stared at me with disgusting persevering effrontery. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Greater things than the Doctor had at that time to contend with, would have yielded before his persevering purpose. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He is a sensible man, and a trustworthy man, and a persevering man, and a pious man. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I want her to decide, said his persevering lordship, that I may give orders about buying the lease of a house for her in town, and furnishing it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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