All 5 Uses of
persist
in
Interview with the Vampire
- 'It happens to everyone,' he persisted, refusing to help me.†
Part 1 *persisted = continued
- 'No, slave,' she persisted in her grave monotone, as though thinking aloud, the words revelations, pieces of a puzzle.†
Part 1
- 'Oh, you know how I would have it,' I answered, persisting in the myth of my own will.†
Part 3persisting = continuing
- It was as if she were deep in her own considerations and saw nothing around her; and I remember noting this, though not knowing what to think of it, that it persisted even now.†
Part 3persisted = continued
- 'And I can do this through you ....not to learn things from you which I can see in a moment in an art gallery or read in an hour in the thickest books ....you are the spirit, you are the heart,' he persisted.†
Part 3
Definition:
to continue -- often despite difficulty or to repeat a question