Both Uses of
persist
in
Ethan Frome
- All the dwellers in Starkfield, as in more notable communities, had had troubles enough of their own to make them comparatively indifferent to those of their neighbours; and though all conceded that Ethan Frome's had been beyond the common measure, no one gave me an explanation of the look in his face which, as I persisted in thinking, neither poverty nor physical suffering could have put there.†
Chpt Open
- "That girl that's coming told me she was used to a house where they had a furnace," Zeena persisted with the same monotonous mildness.†
Chpt 9 *
Definition:
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(persist) to continue -- often despite difficulty