Both Uses
persist
in
Tuck Everlasting
(Edited)
- "How old are you, anyway?" she asked, squinting at him.
...
"I'm one hundred and four years old," he told her solemnly.
"No, I mean really," she persisted.p. 28.2 *persisted = continued asking (despite difficulty) - "But what will you do?" Winnie persisted.
p. 87.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(persist) to continue -- often despite difficulty or to repeat a question
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)