Persistently

Examples

• The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Rosamond's cheeks by this time were persistently burning, and she felt much mortification. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• After which it embarked upon a long-impending struggle with the persistently imperialist House of Lords. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And Mr. Hale thought of Margaret, that April evening, just as strangely and as persistently as she was thinking of him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the Southern States the race issue has been thrust forward persistently to prevent an economic alignment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But he went on persistently, like a wind, straight forward, as if to his fate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is a challenge to undertake the task of reorganization courageously and to keep at it persistently. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What happens is that since neither of these things is persistently possible, we get a compromise and an alternation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She persistently repeated her inquiries. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Judging by appearances, the sentimental side of his character was persistently inclined to betray itself still. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Probably no organized piece of machinery has ever been so systematically exploited, so thoroughly advertised, so persistently canvassed, and so extensively sold as the sewing machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A magnet contains two unlike poles, one of which persistently points north, and the other of which as persistently points south, if allowed to swing freely. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Tonight the luck had been persistently bad, and the little gold purse which hung among her trinkets was almost empty when she returned to her room. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• His ability is executive; that is, he persistently and energetically strives to execute or carry out his aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The end to which the string is attached will persistently point either north or south. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

Typist: Marcus