All 8 Uses of
persistent
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- In arguing on prices, she held to her own firmly, as was natural in a dealer, and reduced theirs persistently, as was inevitable in a woman.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- "He'd worry to death," said the persistent Liddy.†
Chpt 13-15
- The sergeant retreated to avoid receiving back his gift, which she held out persistently towards him.†
Chpt 25-27
- The persistent torrent from the gurgoyle's jaws directed all its vengeance into the grave.†
Chpt 46-48
- The strange neglect which had produced this ruin and waste became the subject of whispered talk among all the people round; and it was elicited from one of Boldwood's men that forgetfulness had nothing to do with it, for he had been reminded of the danger to his corn as many times and as persistently as inferiors dared to do.†
Chpt 49-51
- But as Oak was not only provokingly indifferent to public opinion, but a man who clung persistently to old habits and usages, simply because they were old, there was room for doubt as to his motives.†
Chpt 49-51
- Hence her pity for the man who so persistently loved on to his own injury and permanent gloom had betrayed Bathsheba into an injudicious considerateness of manner, which appeared almost like tenderness, and gave new vigour to the exquisite dream of a Jacob's seven years service in poor Boldwood's mind.†
Chpt 49-51
- Even then Boldwood did not recognize that the impersonator of Heaven's persistent irony towards him, who had once before broken in upon his bliss, scourged him, and snatched his delight away, had come to do these things a second time.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(persistent) continuing -- especially despite difficulties or opposition