Persist

Examples

• I said, 'Can you, at your time of life, be so headstrong, my friend, as to persist that an arm-chair is a thing to put upon a shelf and look at? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I determined to persist, as delicately and forbearingly as possible. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If your ladyship and Mr. Betteredge persist in not agreeing with me, you must be blind to what happened before you this very day. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then thou dost persist in thy refusal to confess thy guilt, and in that bold challenge which thou hast made? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But best of all to persist and persist and persist for ever, till one were satisfied in life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• However doubtful she might feel her situation to be, she would rather persist in darkness than owe her enlightenment to Selden. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Now however, she can persist in this course of conduct no longer. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• 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.
• Yet that sentence which contained their wisdom about particular events has acquired an emotional force which persists long after the events have passed away. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Three-and-sixpence has been spent in vain--the screens retire to Miss Clapp's bedroom, who persists in thinking them lovely. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If the visitor persists until Edison has seen both sides of the controversy, he is always willing to frankly admit that his own views may be unsound and that his opponent is right. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At other times the unsettled condition persists, and his spleen is vented not only on the original instigator but upon others who may have occasion to see him, sometimes hours afterward. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He persists, too, in keeping all the provisions upstairs in his room, and serving them out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It persists in flitting and chattering about town. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So I should; only the dear Old Lady persists in leaving it for me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But this state of affairs does not afford instructors an excuse for folding their hands and persisting in methods which segregate school knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Lydgate had after all to give some scrutiny to each drawer, the Vicar laughing at himself, and yet persisting in the exhibition. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Vito