All 7 Uses of
persist
in
The Power and the Glory by Cooke
- It had been just so when Johnnie would have her time for every term of the "old field hollerin' school," where she learned to read and write; even when she persisted in going to Rainy Gap where some charitably inclined northern church maintained a little school, and pushed her education to dizzy heights that to mountain vision appeared "plumb foolish."†
Chpt 2
- "And yet you're going to walk it—after a week's work here in the mill?" persisted Stoddard.†
Chpt 5 *
- Well, he wasn't looking at no moccasin flower when I seed him," Mandy persisted.†
Chpt 6
- There's something besides the sore throat," persisted Johnnie.†
Chpt 15
- Well, of course she would say that she didn't encourage him to the things I saw afterward; but I know that a man of his sort does not do things without encouragement, and—Mr. Buckheath don't you think you ought to go right to Mr. Stoddard and tell him that John is your promised wife, and show him the folly and—and the wickedness of his course—or what would be wickedness if he persisted in it?†
Chpt 19
- "Well, I only thought since you and Stoddard are such great friends," Hardwick persisted, "he might have mentioned to you some excursion, or made opportunity to talk with you alone, sometime last night—to—to say something.†
Chpt 20
- He persists in considering me still an invalid.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(persist) to continue -- often despite difficulty