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- He was born in the Far South, on the d'Arnault plantation, where the spirit if not the fact of slavery persisted.†
Book 2 *persisted = continued
- 'If you were a boy,' I persisted, 'you wouldn't belong to the Owl Club, either.†
Book 2
- I persisted.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(persist) to continue -- often despite difficulty or to repeat a question
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)