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  • We shall persevere like the stubborn grass that resprouts after every wildfire!†   (source)
  • Whether they have found the strength to persevere through a tireless determination or some foolhardy optimism, those 365 hatch marks stand as proof of their indomitability.†   (source)
  • And even though the Sixers have done everything to stack the odds against you, somehow you four have persevered.†   (source)
  • Somehow, in these terrible circumstances, my mother and I found the will to persevere.†   (source)
  • " 'Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead.†   (source)
  • But the arrivees persevered, and in the end they were received by them They asked for a plot of land to build on, An evil forest was where the clan buried all those who died of the really evil diseases, like leprosy and smallpox.†   (source)
  • "Dumbledore must have taught thousands of students," Scrimgeour persevered.†   (source)
  • Still, my mother persevered, awash in the delusion that I had kept my popularity secret from her all these years.†   (source)
  • "We only ever had the one sun at home," persevered Arthur.†   (source)
  • The big stranger persevered.†   (source)
  • She must have felt some resistance when she tried to fold the door back—there were dozens of light bulbs inside—but she persevered, just as she'd persevered with Lisa.†   (source)
  • Eragon persevered.†   (source)
  • For forty years they have persevered and spread God's word.†   (source)
  • I persevere and thrive on adversity.†   (source)
  • Eggs kept extruding from her abdomen, which made it difficult for me to concentrate, but I persevered.†   (source)
  • And she had a good life ahead of her if only she'd persevered.†   (source)
  • He did not have the impression that he was seen, he could not detect any sign of interest or rejection, but in her indifference there was a distinct radiance that encouraged him to persevere.†   (source)
  • It wasn't easy to talk about feelings with Charlie, but I persevered after clearing my throat.†   (source)
  • To persevere was always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy, and one's perspective.†   (source)
  • Alberto continued: "I think it would be better to persevere.†   (source)
  • So he persevered, clinging to his grin with the mounting desperation of a doomed rock climber: "I think it's personal.†   (source)
  • Persevering through daily disappointments was his stock in trade, because the families who came to Refugee Family Services were frequently among the neediest in Clarkston.†   (source)
  • A tyrant may put him in prison, but he can still persevere in living in harmony with Nature.†   (source)
  • All day he persevered, dragging himself along.†   (source)
  • An intense and persevering will.†   (source)
  • I practiced over and over and over and fell many times, but then I thought of the bow shooter and how he'd persevered, and I practiced again and again and again.†   (source)
  • And also the way she had of just persevering, no matter what life threw at her.†   (source)
  • "Tell them you built a robot," Allan persevered.†   (source)
  • Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?†   (source)
  • It started to get dark but I persevered.†   (source)
  • I'm going to persevere with my bra, even if it does bunch up.†   (source)
  • 'Eat it and tell me if it's good,' Milo persevered.†   (source)
  • I look now at the gentle wisps that compose those lines and see not only the girl that Snow Flower was but the woman she would become—persevering, straightforward, outward-looking.†   (source)
  • I persevered.†   (source)
  • That basic consent (and not talent or skill) enables him to enter the dissecting room during the first year of medical school and persevere for the requisite number of years.†   (source)
  • Yes, the divorce was quite painful, but the family struggled through it and persevered.†   (source)
  • John Adams was also, as many could attest, a great-hearted, persevering man of uncommon ability and force.†   (source)
  • Had he persevered here he could easily have done what I was about to attempt.†   (source)
  • If Elias Bram's living spirit had persevered all this time, Max was not certain how to classify him.†   (source)
  • He will persevere.†   (source)
  • Dr. Ferris was talking about the crusaders of science and about the years of selfless devotion, unremitting toil and persevering research that had gone into Project X. It was odd-thought Dr. Stadler, studying the ruins of the farmthat there should be a herd of goats in the midst of such desolation.†   (source)
  • She could have persevered, as I believe you will.†   (source)
  • The upshot was that, in twenty years, only four students had persevered to the end and obtained a degree under Dr. Mansour's supervision and the young doctor to whose fate it fell to have Dr. Mansour as an advisor would receive the heartfelt condolences of his colleagues, as though someone dear to him had died.†   (source)
  • As long as we gave our best, continued to build products we believed in, and never strayed from God's purpose for us, I knew Duck Commander would find a way to persevere.†   (source)
  • Even when we faced tough times and what seemed like insurmountable odds, we persevered through our mistakes and landed on our feet again.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless I persevered.†   (source)
  • By the time the students graduated-those of them who persevered-their range of knowledge would be wider than that of any other doctor in history.†   (source)
  • But let us persevere inwhat we have resolved, before we forget.†   (source)
  • JEAN: [to BERENGER] You must persevere.†   (source)
  • How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile?   (source)
    persevere = keep working at something despite difficulties
  • He was ambitious enough to be contented with nothing short of the highest rank of overseers, and persevering enough to reach the height of his ambition.   (source)
    persevering = continuing to work at something despite difficulties
  • And yet the dog persevered, as if he had decided to take on Henry as a personal project.†   (source)
  • In the blackness of Prusias's dungeons, Max persevered like some lonely spirit.†   (source)
  • Max was confident his father would persevere; he was more worried about David.†   (source)
  • They had succeeded, as a matter of fact, after putting in complicated and persevering days at it.†   (source)
  • I'll stay here and persevere, and we'll meet again when the fighting stops.'†   (source)
  • No. 'You can read, though, can't you?' the colonel persevered sarcastically.†   (source)
  • 'I'd give everything I own to Yossarian,' Milo persevered gamely on Yossarian's behalf.†   (source)
  • To whom it may concern, Jimmy had written, in ballpoint rather than printout: his computer was fried by then, but he'd persevered, laboriously, by hand.†   (source)
  • He does not yet remember her in her proper person, but persists in believing that she is called Grace — an understandable confusion, as Faith is very close to it in concept; but we persevere in our efforts, and as we daily show him various little homely objects once dear to him, and lead him on walks through local spots of natural beauty, we have increasing hopes that his full memory will shortly return, or at least as much of it as is necessary, and that he will soon be well enough to…†   (source)
  • He'd had a cordial, lonely, persevering face, and Ishmael turned now to stare into it, for there was a portrait of Arthur hung on the wall just to the left of a bookcase.†   (source)
  • By that time, however, Dr. Urbino was not concerned with proclaiming victory, nor was he moved to persevere in his social mission, for at that moment one of his wings was broken, he was distracted and in disarray and ready to forget everything else in life, because he had been struck by the lightning of his love for Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • While for Napoleon on Elba, strolling among chickens, fending off flies, and sidestepping puddles of mud, it was visions of a triumphal return to Paris that galvanized his will to persevere.†   (source)
  • The point is, you have to persevere.†   (source)
  • For the reasons you just read out, I sup-pose… to remind me what you can get if you… persevere and what-ever it was.†   (source)
  • He and Sir David accordingly set upon this final crucial lap of their preparations and to witness the unswerving determination with which they persevered in the face of repeated frustrations was a humbling experience; countless letters and telegrams were dispatched and his lordship himself made three separate trips to Paris within the space of two months.†   (source)
  • He would have persevered in the enterprise if several members of the Academy of History had not convinced him that the legend of the shipwrecked galleon had been invented by some brigand of a viceroy to hide his theft of the treasures of the Crown.†   (source)
  • He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of supreme lucidity—a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of a bold new life that we had been meant to lead all along.†   (source)
  • After a couple of mouthfuls Ron had pushed his portion away, looking queasy; Harry had only persevered so as to not hurt Hermione's feelings.†   (source)
  • But he walked along, methodically turning right twice then left twice, persevering with his search even after he'd lost his bearings many times over.†   (source)
  • He stopped and solemnly nosed his bandaged foot, then persevered until he reached the other dogs, tapping his foot lightly on the ground as he hitched along.†   (source)
  • Still, she persevered and did not complain, and she refused his offer to alleviate her suffering with a spell, saying,You will need the strength when we arrive .†   (source)
  • He persevered.†   (source)
  • Its secrets will help us to rebuild our strength; we will not only persevere but, in time, achieve the might and glory of our forebears.†   (source)
  • When the man from the Ministry accused him of insincerity, Tomas nearly felt guilty; he had to surmount a moral barrier to be able to persevere in his lie: I suppose he did introduce himself, he said, but because his name didn't ring a bell, I immediately forgot it.†   (source)
  • But as we both know, David Menlo has no further need of formal education, while you persevere in a state of appalling ignorance.†   (source)
  • But his story was a reminder that those who had committed themselves to working in resettlement over the long haul and who had managed to persevere through the inevitable letdowns and frustrations often did so in part also out of a search for meaning in their own lives.†   (source)
  • But when I see my brothers at the bar here so easily making fortunes for themselves and their families …. and when I see my own children growing up in something very like real want, because I have taken no care of them, it requires as much philosophy as I am master of, to determine to persevere in public life, and engage in a new scene for which I fear I am very ill qualified.†   (source)
  • If he did not persevere in his attempts to build an ice factory, it was because at that time he was absolutely enthusiastic over the education of his sons, especially that of Aureliano, who from the first had revealed a strange intuition for alchemy.†   (source)
  • But she persevered, overcome by the growing anxiety, and little by little she was getting back her ancestral appetite, the taste of primary minerals, the unbridled satisfaction of what was the original food.†   (source)
  • If Orr could row to Sweden, then I can triumph over Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn, if only I persevere.†   (source)
  • And I'll stay here and persevere.†   (source)
  • Yes, I'm going to persevere.'†   (source)
  • I'm going to persevere.†   (source)
  • I'll persevere.†   (source)
  • A number of men who were not moaning were now giggling openly, and there was no telling how far the unorganized insurrection of moaning might have gone if General Dreedle himself had not come forward to quell it, stepping out determinedly in the center of the platform directly in front of Major Danby, who, with his earnest, persevering head down, was still concentrating on his wrist watch and saying, '…twenty-five seconds… twenty… fifteen…'†   (source)
  • "Well, you must persevere," said Fanny sententiously.†   (source)
  • You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere.†   (source)
  • Anyone can see with his eyes open that our path will be difficult and also long, but if we persevere together as we did in the two world wars - though not, alas, in the interval between them - I cannot doubt that we shall achieve our common purpose in the end.†   (source)
  • They covered the secretary's table, the reading desk, the stools—dreary papers of government, still bravely persevered in—of law, still to be codified—of commissariat and of armament and of orders for the day.†   (source)
  • Tanimoto persevered, calling together a number of leading citizens, and, after Norman Cousins had set up a Hiroshima Peace Center Foundation in New York to receive American funds, these people established the center in Hiroshima, with Tanimoto's church as its base.†   (source)
  • His eagerness over this uninteresting matter of a defaulting cook was extraordinary, but I realized that he considered it a point of honour to persevere until he finally succeeded.†   (source)
  • The geranium in the urn became startlingly visible and, displayed among its leaves, he could see, without wishing it, that old, that obvious distinction between the two classes of men; on the one hand the steady goers of superhuman strength who, plodding and persevering, repeat the whole alphabet in order, twenty-six letters in all, from start to finish; on the other the gifted, the inspired who, miraculously, lump all the letters together in one flash—the way of genius.†   (source)
  • Anyone can see with his eyes open that our path will be difficult and also long, but if we persevere together as we did in the two world wars - though not, alas, in the interval between them - I cannot doubt that we shall achieve our common purpose in the end.†   (source)
  • The wrinkled Capuchin, no more decrepit than he had been for a dozen years, persevered in a secret ritual he had evolved, while to the folk of the valley he soon became veiled in mystery, a hermit of uncanny powers who lived alone on that formidable cliff.†   (source)
  • He had persevered in this sandy track, which grew ever fainter, reasoning that it must lead somewhere.†   (source)
  • …South Africa--that wonderful man, with his immense profound mind, and his eye watching from a distance the whole panorama of European affairs--I have received from all these eminent men, who all have Governments behind them elected on wide franchises, who are all there because they represent the will of their people, messages couched in the most moving terms in which they endorse our decision to fight on, and declare themselves ready to share our fortunes and to persevere to the end.†   (source)
  • If you would only persevere!†   (source)
  • There is deep sympathy and goodwill in Britain - and I doubt not here also - towards the peoples of all the Russias and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffs in establishing lasting friendships.†   (source)
  • There is deep sympathy and goodwill in Britain - and I doubt not here also - towards the peoples of all the Russias and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffs in establishing lasting friendships.†   (source)
  • Perhaps if Angel had persevered he might have gone to Cambridge like his brothers.†   (source)
  • You are to blame, and yet you persevere in evil-doing.†   (source)
  • It made him so very unhappy, indeed, that it could not be persevered in.†   (source)
  • On Miss Lucas's persevering, however, she added, "Very well, if it must be so, it must."†   (source)
  • "To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster,[232] "the blessed Immortals are swift."†   (source)
  • But my uncle persevered, and told me, against my will, of many things I cared nothing about.†   (source)
  • Miss Ophelia still persevered in her labors in the housekeeping line.†   (source)
  • I shut my eyes and ask myself, 'Would you persevere long on that path?†   (source)
  • 'Then you will, if you persevere in that mode of speaking,' said his wife.†   (source)
  • You ought to tell her to work, to persevere.†   (source)
  • I do nothing at all, I persevere in that.†   (source)
  • He is a sensible man, and a trustworthy man, and a persevering man, and a pious man.†   (source)
  • Vidocq, for example, was a good guesser and a persevering man.†   (source)
  • And yet you might have been a wealthy man if you had only persevered.†   (source)
  • He had all the disposition to persevere that Sir Thomas could wish him.†   (source)
  • He therefore becomes patient, reflecting, tolerant, slow to act, and persevering in his designs.†   (source)
  • Diligent, persevering, steady, acute in business.†   (source)
  • We determined to persevere to the end, and to give you every advantage.†   (source)
  • But, in his own tongue, and in his own head, Mr Meagles was a clear, shrewd, persevering man.†   (source)
  • Edgar persevered in his resolution as far as the court; there he lingered.†   (source)
  • Would you persevere in your love, or not?'†   (source)
  • "Was Mr. Hackbutt at the meeting?" persevered Mrs. Bulstrode.†   (source)
  • Still she persevered, allowing no very visible consequences immediately to follow the change.†   (source)
  • I have known numbers of good, persevering, honest people come there through misfortune.†   (source)
  • 'To get rid of me, answer my question,' persevered Mr. Linton.†   (source)
  • "But if you married Mr. Ladislaw, not anybody else," Celia went on with persevering quietude.†   (source)
  • Had his choice been less unexceptionable, I should have condemned his persevering.†   (source)
  • Up to this hour he had persevered in his resolve not to invite her back.†   (source)
  • 'And why didn't mamma speak to me about him?' persevered the child.†   (source)
  • But Holmes persevered.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile I trust and hope and persevere, and try not to let the bitter memory of "The Frost King" trammel my efforts.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your interests were the same as his.†   (source)
  • Colin persevered.†   (source)
  • Tess still stood hesitating like a bather about to make his plunge, hardly knowing whether to retreat or to persevere, when a figure came forth from the dark triangular door of the tent.†   (source)
  • I wrote timidly, fearfully, but resolutely, urged on by my teacher, who knew that if I persevered, I should find my mental foothold again and get a grip on my faculties.†   (source)
  • Teachers and pupils may look coldly on you for a day or two, but friendly feelings are concealed in their hearts; and if you persevere in doing well, these feelings will ere long appear so much the more evidently for their temporary suppression.†   (source)
  • Encouraging each other to persevere, they poised the fragments of rocks, prepared the lighter missiles for immediate service, and thrust forward the barrels of the muskets with a business-like air, and a coolness, that would have done credit to men practised in warfare.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, she persevered; and when the volume slipped from her hands, she fancied herself seized with the finest Catholic melancholy that an ethereal soul could conceive.†   (source)
  • "Let me hope that you will rescind that resolution about the horse, Miss Brooke," said the persevering admirer.†   (source)
  • This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in order that he might persevere in well-doing.†   (source)
  • Another cause tends to render the efforts of a democratic government less persevering than those of an aristocracy.†   (source)
  • At first, the only effect was the strengthening of the faint lines in the skull; but, upon persevering in the experiment, there became visible, at the corner of the slip, diagonally opposite to the spot in which the death's-head was delineated, the figure of what I at first supposed to be a goat.†   (source)
  • Her persevering and patient love seemed completely to surround the countess every moment, not explaining or consoling, but recalling her to life.†   (source)
  • "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge.†   (source)
  • She said if I persevered I might, perhaps, gain the freedom of my children; and even if I perished in doing it, that was better than to leave them to groan under the same persecutions that had blighted my own life.†   (source)
  • He inquired what was the will of his persevering visitor. d'Artagnan then repeated his name, and in an instant recovering all his remembrances of the present and the past, M. de Treville grasped the situation.†   (source)
  • The Prior had his own reasons, however, for persevering in the course of temperance which he had adopted.†   (source)
  • It was much harder work now, but Herbert and Startop persevered, and rowed and rowed and rowed until the sun went down.†   (source)
  • There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.†   (source)
  • He stubbornly declined answering for a while: she persevered, and finally persuaded him to hold communion with her through the boards.†   (source)
  • The doctor, the same district doctor who had had no caustic, arrived, and after looking at the patient, advised them to persevere with a cooling treatment, and at that point said a few words of the chance of recovery.†   (source)
  • 'However, when I saw how good-humouredly he persevered in the work with his awkward unskilful fingers, I took pity upon him, and conquering the disgust I felt, finished lining the skin dog-collars he had so ingeniously contrived.†   (source)
  • This, to be sure, was only another reason for persevering in his intention, and getting an additional security against himself.†   (source)
  • For a long while no answer could be obtained beyond a "no, no—not at all—no, thank you"; but he still persevered; and no sooner had he begun to revert to her own home, than her increased sobs explained to him where the grievance lay.†   (source)
  • But I would not stand between any man and his genius; and to him who does this work, which I decline, with his whole heart and soul and life, I would say, Persevere, even if the world call it doing evil, as it is most likely they will.†   (source)
  • ; "for if you have discovered nothing, at least you have had the good sense to persevere in your suspicions.†   (source)
  • Still bent on corrupting or bribing his captive, in order to obtain possession of the treasures with which his imagination filled the Castle, he persevered in his attack.†   (source)
  • Chingachgook and Uncas profited by the interval to regain their wind, though Duncan continued to work with the most persevering industry.†   (source)
  • If 'genius is eternal patience', as Michelangelo affirms, Amy had some claim to the divine attribute, for she persevered in spite of all obstacles, failures, and discouragements, firmly believing that in time she should do something worthy to be called 'high art'.†   (source)
  • They are persevering, ingenious, cunning, and thoroughly versed in the knowledge which their duties seem chiefly to demand.†   (source)
  • The fact that he got through his supines without mistake the next day, encouraged him to persevere in this appendix to his prayers, and neutralized any scepticism that might have arisen from Mr. Stelling's continued demand for Euclid.†   (source)
  • This was after John Ludlow had been compelled to give it up, though the Doctor had advised him to persevere.†   (source)
  • When, later in the day, she saw Henchard, she adverted to the matter at once, in a way which showed that the line of feeling started by her mother had been persevered in.†   (source)
  • The latter continued to persuade the former that his diffidence alone prevented complete success with Mabel, and that he had only to persevere in order to prevail.†   (source)
  • Leather-Stocking persevered in his intention of returning to the hut, and at the door of the building they separated.†   (source)
  • He had not been known to them as a boy; but soon after Lady Elliot's death, Sir Walter had sought the acquaintance, and though his overtures had not been met with any warmth, he had persevered in seeking it, making allowance for the modest drawing-back of youth; and, in one of their spring excursions to London, when Elizabeth was in her first bloom, Mr Elliot had been forced into the introduction.†   (source)
  • But, then, as it appears to be a duty, I shall persevere and try, and do the best I can," said Miss Ophelia; and Miss Ophelia, after this, did labor, with a commendable degree of zeal and energy, on her new subject.†   (source)
  • Success encouraging me to persevere, I next began harness-making; the spoils of the chase having furnished us with plenty of leather, with which I covered light frames of wood, using the hairy moss or lichen for stuffing, and ere long the animals were equipped with saddles, stirrups, bridles, yokes and collars, to the very great satisfaction of their youthful riders and drivers.†   (source)
  • He said—"Continue, persevere; listen neither to the suggestions of routine, nor to the over-hasty councils of a rash empiricism.†   (source)
  • To unravel these difficulties and to set the estate clear was a task worthy of the orderly and persevering diplomatist of Pumpernickel, and he set himself to work with prodigious assiduity.†   (source)
  • Dr. Kenn, having a conscience void of offence in the matter, was still inclined to persevere,—was still averse to give way before a public sentiment that was odious and contemptible; but he was finally wrought upon by the consideration of the peculiar responsibility attached to his office, of avoiding the appearance of evil,—an "appearance" that is always dependent on the average quality of surrounding minds.†   (source)
  • You'll no' be persevering in your intentions, when your better judgment has had leisure to reflect and to make conclusions on matters and circumstances."†   (source)
  • Greater things than the Doctor had at that time to contend with, would have yielded before his persevering purpose.†   (source)
  • To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; that is the example which nations need, that is the light which electrifies them.†   (source)
  • He was clear-sighted enough to be aware that her uncle and aunt would have looked kindly on his suit, and indeed, without this encouragement he would never have persevered in going to the Farm; but it was impossible to come to any but fluctuating conclusions about Hetty's feelings.†   (source)
  • Miss Bingley, however, was incapable of disappointing Mr. Darcy in anything, and persevered therefore in requiring an explanation of his two motives.†   (source)
  • What right had he to endeavour to please, as he certainly did—to distinguish any one young woman with persevering attention, as he certainly did—while he really belonged to another?†   (source)
  • …intense eagerness and joy depicted in the face of Newman Noggs, which was suffused with perspiration; the surprising energy with which he directed a constant succession of blows towards a particular panel about five feet eight from the ground, and still worked away in the most untiring and persevering manner, would have sufficiently explained to the attentive observer, that his imagination was thrashing, to within an inch of his life, his body's most active employer, Mr Ralph Nickleby.†   (source)
  • Despite the fearful struggle he decided still to persevere in his journey, so as to recover himself before going indoors and meeting the eyes of Lucetta.†   (source)
  • "But, noble sir," continued the monk, persevering in his endeavours to draw attention, "consider my vow of obedience, and let me discharge myself of my Superior's errand."†   (source)
  • Heyward smiled to himself at the idea of a competition with the scout, though he determined to persevere in the deception, until apprised of the real designs of Magua.†   (source)
  • In the tractability with which, at my wish, you forsook a study in which you were interested, and adopted another because it interested me; in the untiring assiduity with which you have since persevered in it — in the unflagging energy and unshaken temper with which you have met its difficulties — I acknowledge the complement of the qualities I seek.†   (source)
  • I wanted to see how you would come out of the trial, Trot; and you came out nobly — persevering, self-reliant, self-denying!†   (source)
  • The dogs knew their master's voice, and after swimming in a circle, as if reluctant to give over the chase, and yet afraid to persevere, they finally obeyed, and returned to the land, where they filled the air with their cries.†   (source)
  • She would be respectable and happy; and Emma admitted her to be the luckiest creature in the world, to have created so steady and persevering an affection in such a man;—or, if not quite the luckiest, to yield only to herself.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Heyward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his footsteps with such persevering hardihood.†   (source)
  • This was nervous work, but it was the wisest of all the expedients that offered, and the young man was encouraged to persevere in it by the circumstance that he felt his face fanned by the air, a proof that there was a little more wind.†   (source)
  • But a democracy is unable to regulate the details of an important undertaking, to persevere in a design, and to work out its execution in the presence of serious obstacles.†   (source)
  • But the doomed young rebel (otherwise a mild youth, and very persevering), showing no sign of grace as he got older but, on the contrary, constructing a model of a power-loom, she was fain, with many tears, to mention his backslidings to the baronet.†   (source)
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