All 8 Uses of
persist
in
David Copperfield
- Not having as yet finished my own breakfast, I attempted to hide my confusion by proceeding with it; but my knife tumbled over my fork, my fork tripped up my knife, I chipped bits of bacon a surprising height into the air instead of cutting them for my own eating, and choked myself with my tea, which persisted in going the wrong way instead of the right one, until I gave in altogether, and sat blushing under my aunt's close scrutiny.†
Chpt 13-15
- He was mortally jealous of me, and persisted in barking at me.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- — and caressed him, but he persisted upon barking still.†
Chpt 25-27
- …brought up from the beach and stored in the outhouse — as oars, nets, sails, cordage, spars, lobster-pots, bags of ballast, and the like; and though there was abundance of assistance rendered, there being not a pair of working hands on all that shore but would have laboured hard for Mr. Peggotty, and been well paid in being asked to do it, yet she persisted, all day long, in toiling under weights that she was quite unequal to, and fagging to and fro on all sorts of unnecessary errands.†
Chpt 31-33
- So the Doctor persisted in making the engagement for her, and Mr. Jack Maldon was to come back to dinner.†
Chpt 34-36
- They persisted in withdrawing for the specified time.†
Chpt 40-42
- If I tacitly checked this playfulness, and persisted, she would look so scared and disconsolate, as she became more and more bewildered, that the remembrance of her natural gaiety when I first strayed into her path, and of her being my child-wife, would come reproachfully upon me; and I would lay the pencil down, and call for the guitar.†
Chpt 43-45
- I think I never saw anything more ridiculous — I was sensible of it, even at the time — than Mr. Micawber making broad-sword guards with the ruler, and crying, 'Come on!' while Traddles and I pushed him back into a corner, from which, as often as we got him into it, he persisted in emerging again.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(persist) to continue -- often despite difficulty