All 3 Uses of
dogged
in
Anna Karenina
- The hall porter was doggedly silent, but when Korney told him he ought to be sent away, Kapitonitch darted up to him, and waving his hands in Korney's face, began: "Oh yes, to be sure you'd not have let her in!†
Part 5 *doggedly = with continuing effort despite difficulties
- The perspiration with which he was drenched cooled him, while the sun, that burned his back, his head, and his arms, bare to the elbow, gave a vigor and dogged energy to his labor; and more and more often now came those moments of unconsciousness, when it was possible not to think what one was doing.†
Part 3
- He now dogged her footsteps, like Vaska.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(dogged as in: dogged determination) continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties (persistent effort)
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(2)
(dogged as in: dogged by problems) followed; or persistently annoyed