All 12 Uses of
persistent
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- He looked repeatedly at the clerk, partly no doubt because the latter was staring persistently at him, obviously anxious to enter into conversation.†
Chpt 1.2 *persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
- She began slowly backing away from him into the corner, staring intently, persistently at him, but still uttered no sound, as though she could not get breath to scream.†
Chpt 1.7
- Raskolnikov put in again, still addressing Nikodim Fomitch, but trying his best to address Ilya Petrovitch also, though the latter persistently appeared to be rummaging among his papers and to be contemptuously oblivious of him.†
Chpt 2.1
- Raskolnikov himself lay without speaking, on his back, gazing persistently, though without understanding, at the stranger.†
Chpt 2.5
- Raskolnikov asked, persistently keeping up the conversation.†
Chpt 3.4
- And the unconcealed, persistent, nervous, and discourteous sarcasm of Porfiry seemed strange to Razumihin beside that quiet and mournful face.†
Chpt 3.5
- Raskolnikov smiled sarcastically, Razumihin fidgeted, but Pyotr Petrovitch did not accept the reproof; on the contrary, at every word he became more persistent and irritable, as though he relished it.†
Chpt 4.2
- And so emphatically and persistently?†
Chpt 4.5persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
- She came backâshe seems to have been turned out somewhere, perhaps beaten....So it seems at least, She had run to your father's former chief, she didn't find him at home: he was dining at some other general's....Only fancy, she rushed off there, to the other general's, and, imagine, she was so persistent that she managed to get the chief to see her, had him fetched out from dinner, it seems.†
Chpt 5.5
- Would you believe it too that Marfa Petrovna was positively angry with me at first for my persistent silence about your sister, for my careless reception of her continual adoring praises of Avdotya Romanovna.†
Chpt 6.4
- But a strange persistent murmur which sometimes rose to a shout in the next room attracted his attention.†
Chpt 6.6
- Perhaps the cold, or the dampness, or the dark, or the wind that howled under the window and tossed the trees roused a sort of persistent craving for the fantastic.†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
continuing -- especially despite difficulties or opposition