Both Uses of
persistent
in
The Time Machine
- The science of our time has attacked but a little department of the field of human disease, but even so, it spreads its operations very steadily and persistently.†
Chpt 4 *persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
- Then I had simply to fight against their persistent fingers for my levers, and at the same time feel for the studs over which these fitted.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
continuing -- especially despite difficulties or opposition