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  • They met in graduate school; he flitted from lab to lab with a prodigious curiosity but little perseverance.†   (source)
  • It takes a lot of perseverance to hang tough with challenging choices.†   (source)
  • They're a symbol of strength and perseverance."†   (source)
  • Write your name and address and write me a paragraph explaining why you came here for this job and how you propose to rise in the ranks of Eason and Son, Ltd., by dint of perseverance and assiduity where there is great opportunity in this company for a boy that will keep his eye on the guidon ahead and guard his flanks from the siren call of sin.†   (source)
  • My aunt has always talked about marriage with words straight out of The Book of Shhh, words like duty, responsibility, and perseverance.†   (source)
  • PERSEVERANCE When Enrique's mother left, he was a child.†   (source)
  • Tronjheim was a stunning monument to the dwarves' power and perseverance.†   (source)
  • It was work that required immense perseverance and the ability to assess the likelihood of actually finding the guy who mattered.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was because of Rahel, who sat staring off into space, her face blank, even as the speakers up on the stage praised the strikers' courage, their perseverance, their cause.†   (source)
  • What we really want them to learn is far more important: teamwork, perseverance, sportsmanship, the value of hard work, an ability to deal with adversity.†   (source)
  • I'm used to perseverance.†   (source)
  • When at last he climbed on board, he took two pieces of woman's jewelry out of his mouth and displayed them as if they were the prize for his perseverance.†   (source)
  • On the fourth day, my perseverance paid off.†   (source)
  • When spring came to St. Louis, I took out my first library card, and since Bailey and I seemed to be growing apart, I spent most of my Saturdays at the library (no interruptions) breathing in the world of penniless shoeshine boys who, with goodness and perseverance, became rich, rich men, and gave baskets of goodies to the poor on holidays.†   (source)
  • He had great powers of perseverance, and he wanted to see as much of the world as he possibly could, so he kept rolling the boulder with all his might.†   (source)
  • She finally made it to the ha ram through sheer perseverance, lifting Maryam high above the crowd to touch the tomb.†   (source)
  • Once a month I would go through building security, ride the elevator up to Pretrial Services, and sign in, waiting in a dingy room decorated with inspirational and cautionary posters that reminded me about Perseverance and to Use Condoms.†   (source)
  • He said with prayer and perseverance, God might one day forgive me.†   (source)
  • My mother, in all fairness, always blamed my father and limited her hostility to the nickname Weather Pet and to the occasional snide remark about my father's growing mass of hair, which at the time of the separation was receding with great speed and now seemed to have reversed itself and grown back with the perseverance and quickness of our lawn after a few good days of rain.†   (source)
  • After one whole year, the teacher was moved by the guard's perseverance and determination and finally accepted him as his student.†   (source)
  • He embodied everything the military was looking for: leadership, intelligence, dependability, integrity, tact, selflessness, and perseverance.†   (source)
  • It was not an easy task for him to go through life looking something like Henry Fonda, but he never once thought of quitting, having inherited his perseverance from his father, a lanky man with a good sense of humor.†   (source)
  • Perseverance finally seems to be paying off.†   (source)
  • No doubt it would inspire her to give me the speech again about how, with time and perseverance, I could be a judge, too.†   (source)
  • Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.†   (source)
  • Max was impressed by her perseverance, although the scenario ended without her touching the wall.†   (source)
  • He is an individual of strong motivation, will, and perseverance, qualities not often seen in members of his race.†   (source)
  • You do what you can under extreme circumstances, perseverance your only goal.†   (source)
  • And one summer he took up the French horn, which he'd had a few lessons in during elementary school, and he showed more perseverance than the family had ever seen in him.†   (source)
  • Like most things, war is a science that is perfected by diligence, perseverance, time, and practice.†   (source)
  • The former had the strength of hard steel and a disciplined chain of command, the latter soft nets and perseverance.†   (source)
  • I mean a lot of people don't take it up just because they think it's going to involve a certain amount of nasty application and perseverance—you know what I mean.†   (source)
  • CONSIDER IT PURE JOY, MY BROTHERS, WHENEVER YOU FACE TRIALS OF MANY KINDS, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH DEVELOPS PERSEVERANCE. — JAMES 1:2-3†   (source)
  • If I had not known that strength, that pure perseverance, I could not have become a writer.†   (source)
  • Noting in his diary that "the qualities of mind most peculiarly called for are firmness, perseverance, patience, coolness and forbearance," John Quincy Adams, like any Puritan gentleman, set out for Washington determined to meet the standards of self-discipline which he had imposed upon himself.†   (source)
  • To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck.   (source)
  • As a guy who was never very good at the rejection part of dating, I admired his perseverance.†   (source)
  • By perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious issue.†   (source)
  • 'It's a miracle of human perseverance, I tell you.†   (source)
  • Patience and perseverance will carry you with honor through all difficulties.†   (source)
  • Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.†   (source)
  • But we managed, through patience, perseverance, and positive thinking, to grow from scrawny teenagers with doubtful futures to become medical professionals highly respected in our community.†   (source)
  • But when at last he walked again, his ankle still painful and his back raw, he had more than enough reasons to believe that destiny had rewarded his perseverance with a providential fall.†   (source)
  • Though this story was a favorite of the Grand Duke's and often retold to the young Count as an example of courageous perseverance in the face of impossible odds, the Count had always suspected it was a little apocryphal.†   (source)
  • I write, Frank McCourt, 4, Little Barrington Street, Limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland I am applying for this job so that I can rise to the highest ranks of Easons Ltd., by dint of perseverance and assadooty knowing that if I keep my eyes ahead and protect my flanks I'll be safe from all temptation and a credit to Easons and Ireland in general.†   (source)
  • With all his perseverance, he tried to teach her the tricks he had seen others perform through the peepholes in the transient hotel, along with the theoretical formulations preached by Lotario Thugut on his nights of debauchery.†   (source)
  • I don't mean by this that I have exerted any abilities here, or any action, that are not very common, but I don't believe that any other man in the world would have had the patience and perseverance to do and to suffer what was absolutely necessary.†   (source)
  • But perseverance won the day.†   (source)
  • Aureliano Segundo was the only one who felt a cordial compassion for him and he tried to break his perseverance.†   (source)
  • He was widely known to be a man of principle and respectable sternness, a man of great intelligence, and, when the situation demanded, a man of relentless perseverance.†   (source)
  • They perspired with the sweat of a horse and had a smell of suntanned hide and the taciturn and impenetrable perseverance of men from the uplands.†   (source)
  • It takes hard work, patience, and perseverance on the days when you sit in the blind and wait and the skies are clear.†   (source)
  • Whenever I met difficulties or challenges in my dancing, like the split jumps, I always went back to this fable for my basic inspiration: hard work, determination and perseverance.†   (source)
  • Phil has always had a lot of perseverance and patience, which are valuable attributes to have in everything from business to cooking to hunting.†   (source)
  • Seeing him work that way, as she had never dreamed him capable of doing, Fernanda thought that his stubbornness was diligence, his greed abnegation, and his thick-headedness perseverance, and her insides tightened with remorse over the virulence with which she had attacked his idleness.†   (source)
  • This stone and several others [it read] have been placed in this yard by a great, great, grandson from a veneration of the piety, humility, simplicity, prudence, frugality, industry and perseverance of his ancestors in hopes of recommending an affirmation of their virtues to their posterity.†   (source)
  • Wounded by the fatal lances of his own nostalgia and that of others, he admired the persistence of the spider webs on the dead rose bushes, the perseverance of the rye grass, the patience of the air in the radiant February dawn.†   (source)
  • Without Washington's leadership and unrelenting perseverance, the revolution almost certainly would have failed.†   (source)
  • LET PERSEVERANCE FINISH ITS WORK SO THAT YOU MAY BE MATURE AND COMPLETE, NOT LACKING ANYTHING. — JAMES 1:4†   (source)
  • Nevertheless he insisted with such perseverance, begged in such a way, broke his code of dignity to such a degree, that with a little help from here and a little more from there, sneaking about everywhere, with a slippery diligence and a pitiless perseverance, he managed to put together in eight months more money than Ursula had buried.†   (source)
  • Again and again, in letters to Congress and to his officers, and in his general orders, he had called for perseverance—for "perseverance and spirit," for "patience and perseverance," for "unremitting courage and perseverance."†   (source)
  • Amaranta felt upset by the perseverance, the loyalty, the submissiveness of that man who was invested with so much authority and who nevertheless took off his sidearm in the living room so that he could go into the sewing room without weapons, But for four years he kept repeating his love and she would always find a way to reject him without hurting him, for even though she had not succeeded in loving him she could no longer live without him.†   (source)
  • A great deal of their money and perseverance and they found a place to sleep.†   (source)
  • Nothing can be achieved without perseverance.†   (source)
  • Those who had jobs went about them at the exact tempo of the plague, with dreary perseverance.†   (source)
  • So he stood in the middle of the crowd at first, dragged this way and that, and then coming somewhat to his senses, he pushed with perseverance toward the edge and found himself at last on the fringe of the multitude, and here he stood, swept along slightly as little whirlpools are at the edge of a pool of current; but still he was able to see where he was.†   (source)
  • If he was to be believed, he had always thought that perseverance would win through, inevitably, and, as he pointed out, resourcefulness in emergency was up his street, in a manner of speaking.†   (source)
  • Thus, though for weary months and months they had endured their long ordeal with dogged perseverance, the first thrill of hope had been enough to shatter what fear and hopelessness had failed to impair.†   (source)
  • You'll begin your lectures about perseverance and strength of will, and all that.†   (source)
  • The whole ranch showed many years of toil and the perseverance of man.†   (source)
  • He did not read always with enjoyment but invariably with perseverance.†   (source)
  • "I've heard," he said again with an unshaken and sombre perseverance.†   (source)
  • It seems to me that what you lack is perseverance.'†   (source)
  • Nevertheless they still continued with unabated perseverance.†   (source)
  • Death is often less dreaded than perseverance in continuous efforts to one end.†   (source)
  • We know that she had much quiet perseverance in her opinion.†   (source)
  • So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered.†   (source)
  • Some resentment did arise at a perseverance so selfish and ungenerous.†   (source)
  • 'My love, no. Perseverance and strength of character will enable us to bear much worse things.'†   (source)
  • An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not 'frame off' rewarded my perseverance.†   (source)
  • I would trust to my fidelity and perseverance — and to Dora.'†   (source)
  • Everything was working in my favour, and I swore that it should not be through lack of energy or perseverance that I should miss the chance which fortune had thrown in my way.†   (source)
  • Rhadamanthus had discharged him—not officially, not as a cured man, but with a kind of semiapproval all the same, in recognition of Joachim's perseverance.†   (source)
  • He had risen by perseverance and industry, through long years of service, from the position of barkeeper in a commonplace saloon to his present altitude.†   (source)
  • But the Vicar's view of that seat of learning as a stepping-stone to Orders alone was quite a family tradition; and so rooted was the idea in his mind that perseverance began to appear to the sensitive son akin to an intent to misappropriate a trust, and wrong the pious heads of the household, who had been and were, as his father had hinted, compelled to exercise much thrift to carry out this uniform plan of education for the three young men.†   (source)
  • But for Miss Sullivan's genius, untiring perseverance and devotion, I could not have progressed as far as I have toward natural speech.†   (source)
  • There was, also, a curious strain of weakness running crosswise through his make-up…. a harsh phrase from the lips of an older boy (older boys usually detested him) was liable to sweep him off his poise into surly sensitiveness, or timid stupidity…. he was a slave to his own moods and he felt that though he was capable of recklessness and audacity, he possessed neither courage, perseverance, nor self-respect.†   (source)
  • To speak of Tuskegee without paying special tribute to Booker T. Washington's genius and perseverance would be impossible.†   (source)
  • She actually admonished Joachim not to be so obstinate, but to show some humility and to see in her, Karoline Stohr, an example of faithful perseverance, of pure willpower: the way she denied herself the pleasure of running the show at home as a housewife in Cannstatt, in order that someday she might be restored whole to her husband, a completely cured wife.†   (source)
  • We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong, to withstand temptations, to economize, to acquire and use skill; in our ability to compete, to succeed in commerce, to disregard the superficial for the real, the appearance for the substance, to be great and yet small, learned and yet simple, high and yet the servant of all.†   (source)
  • With hard work and perseverance there is no reason why you should not become a careful, not incompetent painter.†   (source)
  • He walked along the Boulevard du Montparnasse as though he had known it all his life, and by virtuous perseverance he had learnt to drink absinthe without distaste.†   (source)
  • Mr. Guppy's perseverance, all this time, not only produced him regularly at any theatre to which we went, but caused him to appear in the crowd as we were coming out, and even to get up behind our fly— where I am sure I saw him, two or three times, struggling among the most dreadful spikes.†   (source)
  • Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance.†   (source)
  • I am practically industrious—painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour—but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.†   (source)
  • Having got to this pass, he resolved as an exercise in perseverance, to betake himself again to the Circumlocution Office, and try what satisfaction he could get there.†   (source)
  • No lesser sense of the infant fowl's importance could have justified, even in a mother's eyes, the perseverance with which she watched over its safety, ruffling her small person to twice its proper size, and flying in everybody's face that so much as looked towards her hopeful progeny.†   (source)
  • 'Patience, order and perseverance will help us through all our work, and I agree with you that a visit to the wreck is without doubt our first duty.†   (source)
  • His deliberate deeds passed through three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone traverse,—reasoning, will, perseverance.†   (source)
  • But, angrily resolved not to betray herself, she seized her work, and went on making false stitches and pricking her fingers with much perseverance, not looking up or taking notice of what was going forward, until all the three voices united in "Let us take the road."†   (source)
  • As a general on duty on Kutuzov's staff, he applied himself to business with zeal and perseverance and surprised Kutuzov by his willingness and accuracy in work.†   (source)
  • At last she recollected that she had been travelling, and they talked of Matlock and Dove Dale with great perseverance.†   (source)
  • Who has not seen a salt fish, thoroughly cured for this world, so that nothing can spoil it, and putting, the perseverance of the saints to the blush? with which you may sweep or pave the streets, and split your kindlings, and the teamster shelter himself and his lading against sun, wind, and rain behind it—and the trader, as a Concord trader once did, hang it up by his door for a sign when he commences business, until at last his oldest customer cannot tell surely whether it be…†   (source)
  • A little further perseverance in patience and forced cheerfulness on Anne's side produced nearly a cure on Mary's.†   (source)
  • The snow had fallen in time to assure them that those they sought were in their rear, and they were now employed, with the unwearied perseverance and patience of Indian warriors, in circling the certain boundaries of their place of concealment.†   (source)
  • As for Mr. Sedley's jokes, Rebecca laughed at them with a cordiality and perseverance which not a little pleased and softened that good-natured gentleman.†   (source)
  • Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.†   (source)
  • I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts — '†   (source)
  • The city, notwithstanding the incredible perseverance of its mayor, had attempted a sort of mutiny for a surrender; the mayor had hanged the mutineers.†   (source)
  • However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.†   (source)
  • Not so, however, with David Muir; accustomed to rebuffs, and familiar with the virtue of perseverance, he saw no reason to despair, though the half-menacing, half-self-satisfied manner in which he shook his head towards the retreating girl might have betrayed designs as sinister as they were determined.†   (source)
  • Unhappy are the counsellors of a Prince, who wants fortitude and perseverance alike in good and in evil!†   (source)
  • He wheedled, bribed, ridiculed, threatened, and scolded; affected indifference, that he might surprise the truth from her; declared he knew, then that he didn't care; and at last, by dint of perseverance, he satisfied himself that it concerned Meg and Mr. Brooke.†   (source)
  • He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his nature; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack--yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away--jerk!†   (source)
  • On casting my eyes over the different republics which form the confederation, I perceive that their Governments lack perseverance in their undertakings, and that they exercise no steady control over the men whom they employ.†   (source)
  • Kindly, as usual — and, as usual, rather trite — she condoled with him on the pressure of business he had had all day; on the annoyance it must have been to him with that painful sprain: then she commended his patience and perseverance in going through with it.†   (source)
  • By perseverance and unwearied industry, she was now mistress of a snug little home, surrounded with the necessaries of life.†   (source)
  • Oh! no; I was pleased with my own perseverance in asking questions; and amused to think how little information I obtained.†   (source)
  • But she had more than fears of her own perseverance to remove: she had begun to feel undecided as to what she ought to do; and as she walked round the room her doubts were increasing.†   (source)
  • With the ant-heap the respectable race of ants began and with the ant-heap they will probably end, which does the greatest credit to their perseverance and good sense.†   (source)
  • It took no inconsiderable perseverance to arouse the inmates; but at last the respectable proprietor appeared, and undid the door.†   (source)
  • This same person, with almost incredible patience and perseverance, had contrived to provide himself with tools requisite for so unparalleled an attempt.†   (source)
  • An ancient Hawaiian war-club or spear-paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon.†   (source)
  • I was relieved from it by the humane hand of Mr. DAVID RUGGLES, whose vigilance, kindness, and perseverance, I shall never forget.†   (source)
  • I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits.†   (source)
  • As if this were not bad enough for me, the boys, connecting me with the establishment, on account of the patience and perseverance with which I sat outside, half-dressed, pelted me, and used me very ill all day.†   (source)
  • My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.†   (source)
  • With many compliments to them, and much self-gratulation on the prospect of a connection between the houses, he unfolded the matter—to an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous; for Mrs. Bennet, with more perseverance than politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed: "Good Lord!†   (source)
  • "Well, then," he said, "I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping.†   (source)
  • The speaker whom he addressed was our sometime friend Marks, who, with that valuable perseverance which characterized him, had come on to Sandusky, seeking whom he might devour.†   (source)
  • I was ready to work at night as well as day, and by the most untiring perseverance and industry, I made enough to meet my expenses, and lay up a little money every week.†   (source)
  • —To any thing, every thing—to time, chance, circumstance, slow effects, sudden bursts, perseverance and weariness, health and sickness.†   (source)
  • Milady began to have doubts of the issue of this terrible duel, in which her enemies showed as much perseverance as she did animosity.†   (source)
  • Our first attempts were clumsy enough; but, as usual, perseverance was rewarded, and we produced a good supply of all sorts and sizes.†   (source)
  • The quarrel gave the elder lady numberless advantages which she did not fail to turn to account with female ingenuity and perseverance.†   (source)
  • …thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his success and at the inability of others to understand these things.†   (source)
  • When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, as he passed along the file, casting a timid supplicating glance, and turning towards each of those who occupied the lower end of the board, the Saxon domestics squared their shoulders, and continued to devour their supper with great perseverance, paying not the least attention to the wants of the new guest.†   (source)
  • 'They are not,' returned Ralph, exasperated at this perseverance, and the thought of Nicholas, which the last question awakened.†   (source)
  • It was not in reason to be expected that he should; if he could have lightly forgotten it, he could never have conceived it, or had the patience and perseverance to work it out.†   (source)
  • But now I will begin with more perseverance and fury than ever, since fear urges me, not my conscience.†   (source)
  • Obedience, poverty, chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,— these are their vows, which the rule greatly aggravates.†   (source)
  • There is more calculation, even in the impulses of bravery, than is generally attributed to them; and although the first efforts are suggested by passion, perseverance is maintained by a distinct regard of the purpose in view.†   (source)
  • It was so easy to collect logs on the shore, and to construct a raft of almost any size, that it was certain the Iroquois, now they had turned their attention to such means, would resort to them seriously, so long as there was the certainty of success by perseverance.†   (source)
  • You have been so brotherly as to propose to me to fall in here and take my place among the products of your perseverance and sense.†   (source)
  • Nicholas worked away at the piece, which was speedily put into rehearsal, and then worked away at his own part, which he studied with great perseverance and acted—as the whole company said—to perfection.†   (source)
  • Flora accordingly led the way across the road to the pie-shop in question: Mr F.'s Aunt stalking across in the rear, and putting herself in the way of being run over, with a perseverance worthy of a better cause.†   (source)
  • In these conversations it was wonderful with what perseverance and ingenuity Major Dobbin would manage to bring the talk round to the subject of Amelia and her little boy.†   (source)
  • I held no communication with him: still, I was conscious of his design to enter, if he could; and on the Tuesday, a little after dark, when my master, from sheer fatigue, had been compelled to retire a couple of hours, I went and opened one of the windows; moved by his perseverance to give him a chance of bestowing on the faded image of his idol one final adieu.†   (source)
  • I have only two adversaries—I will not say two conquerors, for with perseverance I subdue even them,—they are time and distance.†   (source)
  • Experience has hitherto shown that whenever a State has demanded anything with perseverance and resolution, it has invariably succeeded; and that if a separate government has distinctly refused to act, it was left to do as it thought fit.†   (source)
  • Among insects, bees, wasps, and ants are well known as social architects; in like manner, the coral insect works wonders beneath the ocean waves, by force of perseverance and united effort.'†   (source)
  • To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.†   (source)
  • I was surly; but the thing would not go: it stood by me with strange perseverance, and looked and spoke with a sort of authority.†   (source)
  • "Old Tom is full of contrivances," added Hurry, "and he set his heart on the success of his chimney, which threatened more than once to give out altogether; but perseverance will even overcome smoke; and now he has a comfortable cabin of it, though it did promise, at one time, to be a chinky sort of a flue to carry flames and fire."†   (source)
  • Love such as his, in a man like himself, must with perseverance secure a return, and at no great distance; and he had so much delight in the idea of obliging her to love him in a very short time, that her not loving him now was scarcely regretted.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XVII When the ladies returned to the drawing-room after dinner, Emma found it hardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties;—with so much perseverance in judging and behaving ill did Mrs. Elton engross Jane Fairfax and slight herself.†   (source)
  • She was now enough aware of Sir James's position with regard to her, to appreciate the rectitude of his perseverance in a landlord's duty, to which he had at first been urged by a lover's complaisance, and her pleasure in it was great enough to count for something even in her present happiness.†   (source)
  • By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a year.†   (source)
  • They do wait, however, with the perseverance of military tactics, and at last the bell rings again and the client in possession comes out of Mr. Tulkinghorn's room.†   (source)
  • To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implements at first, and it is only by repeated study and perseverance, joined to a natural taste, that a man can excel in the handling of either.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Weston, kind-hearted and musical, was particularly interested by the circumstance, and Emma could not help being amused at her perseverance in dwelling on the subject; and having so much to ask and to say as to tone, touch, and pedal, totally unsuspicious of that wish of saying as little about it as possible, which she plainly read in the fair heroine's countenance.†   (source)
  • Judith trembled like the aspen, she scarce knew why herself, though there was the prospect of a scene of violence; for if Hurry was fierce and overbearing in the consciousness of his vast strength, Deerslayer had about him the calm determination that promises greater perseverance, and a resolution more likely to effect its object.†   (source)
  • To work we now went on the bears, and no slight affair we found it to skin and cut them up, but by dint of perseverance we at last succeeded in our object.†   (source)
  • The dinner was as remarkable for the splendour and completeness of its appointments as the mansion itself, and the company were remarkable for doing it ample justice, in which respect Messrs Pyke and Pluck particularly signalised themselves; these two gentlemen eating of every dish, and drinking of every bottle, with a capacity and perseverance truly astonishing.†   (source)
  • …did not consent to leave the Union in the enjoyment of these scanty trophies of success: the same national Convention which had annulled the tariff bill, met again, and accepted the proffered concession; but at the same time it declared it unabated perseverance in the doctrine of Nullification: and to prove what it said, it annulled the law investing the President with extraordinary powers, although it was very certain that the clauses of that law would never be carried into effect.†   (source)
  • I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.†   (source)
  • In this spirit he began the attack, and by animated perseverance had soon re-established the sort of familiar intercourse, of gallantry, of flirtation, which bounded his views; but in triumphing over the discretion which, though beginning in anger, might have saved them both, he had put himself in the power of feelings on her side more strong than he had supposed.†   (source)
  • Dantes laid the different things he had been looking at on the table, and stood with his head drooping on his breast, as though overwhelmed by the perseverance and strength of Faria's mind.†   (source)
  • It is difficult to form any idea of all the perseverance and the efforts which have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative perfection in which it now is.†   (source)
  • I wish to leave my good name unsullied, together with any little property of which I may become possessed through industry and perseverance, to my daughters Emma, Jane, and Caroline.†   (source)
  • It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire.†   (source)
  • To these, he applied himself with such steadiness and perseverance that, although he brought no greater amount of previous knowledge to the subject than certain dim recollections of two or three very long sums entered into a ciphering-book at school, and relieved for parental inspection by the effigy of a fat swan tastefully flourished by the writing-master's own hand, he found himself, at the end of a fortnight, in a condition to report his proficiency to Mr Linkinwater, and to claim…†   (source)
  • We had to acknowledge that an immense amount of labour and perseverance would be required before we could call ourselves the owners of the useful and elegant little craft, which lay within this vast hulk like a fossil shell embedded in a rock.†   (source)
  • By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been forgotten by nature.†   (source)
  • "Well," said the Count, astonished at his perseverance, which he could not understand, and looking still more earnestly at Maximilian, "let it begin again,—it is like the house of the Atreidae; [*] God has condemned them, and they must submit to their punishment.†   (source)
  • Fanny was very anxious to be useful, and not to appear above her home, or in any way disqualified or disinclined, by her foreign education, from contributing her help to its comforts, and therefore set about working for Sam immediately; and by working early and late, with perseverance and great despatch, did so much that the boy was shipped off at last, with more than half his linen ready.†   (source)
  • The mass of the people may be led astray by ignorance or passion; the mind of a king may be biased, and his perseverance in his designs may be shaken—besides which a king is not immortal—but an aristocratic body is too numerous to be led astray by the blandishments of intrigue, and yet not numerous enough to yield readily to the intoxicating influence of unreflecting passion: it has the energy of a firm and enlightened individual, added to the power which it derives from perpetuity.†   (source)
  • It is only by inquiry and perseverance that one sometimes gets hints of those secrets; and by a similar diligence every person who treads the Pall Mall pavement and frequents the clubs of this metropolis knows, either through his own experience or through some acquaintance with whom he plays at billiards or shares the joint, something about the genteel world of London, and how, as there are men (such as Rawdon Crawley, whose position we mentioned before) who cut a good figure to the…†   (source)
  • For I conscientiously believed, dancing-master's wife though she was, and dancing-mistress though in her limited ambition she aspired to be, she had struck out a natural, wholesome, loving course of industry and perseverance that was quite as good as a mission.†   (source)
  • She was one of those people who can bear a great deal of pleasure, and she never flinched in her perseverance in the cause.†   (source)
  • Traddles now informed me, as the result of his inquiries, that the mere mechanical acquisition necessary, except in rare cases, for thorough excellence in it, that is to say, a perfect and entire command of the mystery of short-hand writing and reading, was about equal in difficulty to the mastery of six languages; and that it might perhaps be attained, by dint of perseverance, in the course of a few years.†   (source)
  • As at the voice of Christ, ut voci Christi, at a gesture, at the first sign, ad nutum, ad primum signum, immediately, with cheerfulness, with perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, prompte, hilariter, perseveranter et caeca quadam obedientia, as the file in the hand of the workman, quasi limam in manibus fabri, without power to read or to write without express permission, legere vel scribere non addiscerit sine expressa superioris licentia.†   (source)
  • After the pinnace had been shown off, and received the admiration she deserved, while our industry, skill, and perseverance met with boundless praise, 'Now,' said my wife, 'you must come with me, and see how little Franz and I have improved our time every day of your absence.'†   (source)
  • …had had not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils—for music had been succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and single-sticks—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy's education, i.e., fencing, boxing, and single-stick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cook, and Charles Leboucher.†   (source)
  • He is a most extraordinary young man, and whatever be the event, you must feel that you have created an attachment of no common character; though, young as you are, and little acquainted with the transient, varying, unsteady nature of love, as it generally exists, you cannot be struck as I am with all that is wonderful in a perseverance of this sort against discouragement.†   (source)
  • His father objected that he was not rich enough to send the child to a good public school; his mother that Briggs was a capital mistress for him, and had brought him on (as indeed was the fact) famously in English, the Latin rudiments, and in general learning: but all these objections disappeared before the generous perseverance of the Marquis of Steyne.†   (source)
  • They went on in their own wild way for a little while—I never stopped them; I enjoyed it too much myself— and then we gradually fell to considering how young they were, and how there must be a lapse of several years before this early love could come to anything, and how it could come to happiness only if it were real and lasting and inspired them with a steady resolution to do their duty to each other, with constancy, fortitude, and perseverance, each always for the other's sake.†   (source)
  • …locomotives, her streets with cabs, her skies with balloons of a power and magnitude hitherto unknown in the history of aeronautics in this or any other nation—I say, whether I look merely at home, or, stretching my eyes farther, contemplate the boundless prospect of conquest and possession—achieved by British perseverance and British valour—which is outspread before me, I clasp my hands, and turning my eyes to the broad expanse above my head, exclaim, "Thank Heaven, I am a Briton!"†   (source)
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