All 7 Uses of
perseverance
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- This same person, with almost incredible patience and perseverance, had contrived to provide himself with tools requisite for so unparalleled an attempt.†
Chpt 15-16 *
- 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.†
Chpt 17-18
- …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.†
Chpt 39-40
- I have only two adversaries—I will not say two conquerors, for with perseverance I subdue even them,—they are time and distance.†
Chpt 47-48
- She was a perfect linguist, a first-rate artist, wrote poetry, and composed music; to the study of the latter she professed to be entirely devoted, following it with an indefatigable perseverance, assisted by a schoolfellow,—a young woman without fortune whose talent promised to develop into remarkable powers as a singer.†
Chpt 53-54
- But now I will begin with more perseverance and fury than ever, since fear urges me, not my conscience.†
Chpt 67-68
- "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.†
Chpt 93-94
Definition:
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(perseverance) continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties