All 4 Uses of
perseverance
in
Jane Eyre
- Kindly, as usual — and, as usual, rather trite — she condoled with him on the pressure of business he had had all day; on the annoyance it must have been to him with that painful sprain: then she commended his patience and perseverance in going through with it.†
p. 142.3 *perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties
- I was surly; but the thing would not go: it stood by me with strange perseverance, and looked and spoke with a sort of authority.†
p. 360.6
- I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.†
p. 432.8
- "Well, then," he said, "I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping.†
p. 443.3