All 13 Uses of
persist
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'You'd better do it at once,' he persisted, escaping to the porch (they were in the stable): 'you will have to: and if I speak of these blows, you'll get them again with interest.'†
Chpt 4persisted = continued
- Till within a week of her death that gay heart never failed her; and her husband persisted doggedly, nay, furiously, in affirming her health improved every day.†
Chpt 8
- 'Order Ellen to say you are engaged, Cathy,' he persisted; 'don't turn me out for those pitiful, silly friends of yours!†
Chpt 8 *
- 'No,' she persisted, grasping the handle; 'not yet, Edgar Linton: sit down; you shall not leave me in that temper.†
Chpt 8
- I couldn't explain to Edgar how certain I felt of having a fit, or going raging mad, if he persisted in teasing me!†
Chpt 12
- I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished.†
Chpt 14
- Don't persist, sir!†
Chpt 14persist = continue
- because there is no reason for my lingering another minute, if you persist in your stubborn ill-nature!'†
Chpt 14
- 'I MUST — Linton will be up immediately,' persisted the alarmed intruder.†
Chpt 15persisted = continued
- Mr. Earnshaw has a mind to shoot you, if you persist in endeavouring to enter.†
Chpt 17persist = continue
- 'But you have been worse,' persisted his cousin; 'worse than when I saw you last; you are thinner, and — ' 'I'm tired,' he interrupted, hurriedly.†
Chpt 26persisted = continued
- Catherine was near distraught: still, she persisted that she must go home, and tried entreaty in her turn, persuading him to subdue his selfish agony.†
Chpt 27
- 'No,' she persisted, 'I won't: I can't tell what to do to make you talk to me; and you are determined not to understand.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
to continue -- often despite difficulty or to repeat a question