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Definition
to continue — often despite difficulty
- " 'It happens to everyone,' he persisted, refusing to help me.Part 1 (12% in)
- 'No, slave,' she persisted in her grave monotone, as though thinking aloud, the words revelations, pieces of a puzzle.Part 1 (77% in)
- 'Oh, you know how I would have it,' I answered, persisting in the myth of my own will.Part 3 (3% in)
- 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 3 (33% in)
- '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 (74% in)
There are no more uses of "persist" in Interview with the Vampire.
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