All 4 Uses of
perseverance
in
Emma
- Oh! no; I was pleased with my own perseverance in asking questions; and amused to think how little information I obtained.†
Chpt 2.3-4 *
- Mrs. Weston, kind-hearted and musical, was particularly interested by the circumstance, and Emma could not help being amused at her perseverance in dwelling on the subject; and having so much to ask and to say as to tone, touch, and pedal, totally unsuspicious of that wish of saying as little about it as possible, which she plainly read in the fair heroine's countenance.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- CHAPTER XVII When the ladies returned to the drawing-room after dinner, Emma found it hardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties;—with so much perseverance in judging and behaving ill did Mrs. Elton engross Jane Fairfax and slight herself.†
Chpt 2.17-18
- —To any thing, every thing—to time, chance, circumstance, slow effects, sudden bursts, perseverance and weariness, health and sickness.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(perseverance) continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties