All 6 Uses of
perseverance
in
The Swiss Family Robinson
- 'Patience, order and perseverance will help us through all our work, and I agree with you that a visit to the wreck is without doubt our first duty.†
Chpt 2 *perseverance = continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties
- We had to acknowledge that an immense amount of labour and perseverance would be required before we could call ourselves the owners of the useful and elegant little craft, which lay within this vast hulk like a fossil shell embedded in a rock.†
Chpt 6
- After the pinnace had been shown off, and received the admiration she deserved, while our industry, skill, and perseverance met with boundless praise, 'Now,' said my wife, 'you must come with me, and see how little Franz and I have improved our time every day of your absence.'†
Chpt 6
- Among insects, bees, wasps, and ants are well known as social architects; in like manner, the coral insect works wonders beneath the ocean waves, by force of perseverance and united effort.'†
Chpt 7
- Our first attempts were clumsy enough; but, as usual, perseverance was rewarded, and we produced a good supply of all sorts and sizes.†
Chpt 11
- To work we now went on the bears, and no slight affair we found it to skin and cut them up, but by dint of perseverance we at last succeeded in our object.†
Chpt 12