Steadfastness

Examples

• And he too waited in the magical steadfastness of suspense, for her to take this knowledge of him as he had taken it of her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was never ostracized--his prestige with the quieter citizens saved him from that; but he was attacked with increasing boldness and steadfastness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Leave all else to time, truth, and steadfastness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His eyes were looking steadily into hers all the time, and he seemed fixed in an odd supernatural steadfastness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You never, returns Tony with a most convincing steadfastness, said a truer word in all your life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That more than this she would never (and he was well persuaded of the steadfastness of her resolution) for any human consideration disclose. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• On the whole, scientific men are inclined to believe that the sun has blazed with a general steadfastness throughout geological time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I seek heavenly steadfastness in earthly monotony. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But if Selden's infatuation seemed a fatal necessity, the effect that his name produced shook Gerty's steadfastness with a last pang. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The evening light, flooding yellow along the fields, lit up Birkin's face with a tense, abstract steadfastness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Editor: Olaf