All 3 Uses of
persist
in
Anna Karenina
- In the elasticity of her movements, the freshness and the unflagging eagerness which persisted in her face, and broke out in her smile and her glance, she would rather have passed for a girl of twenty, had it not been for a serious and at times mournful look in her eyes, which struck and attracted Kitty.†
Part 1
- He persists in refusing to give me a divorce!†
Part 1 *
- Alexey Alexandrovitch, with a following of those who saw the danger of so revolutionary an attitude to official documents, persisted in upholding the statements obtained by the revising commission.†
Part 4
Definition:
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(persist) to continue -- often despite difficulty