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persist
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A Gesture Life
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I had tried to convince Sunny of all this, for it seemed certainly wrong for a young girl to know only a single adult, especially so if it was a man, but always she was vehemently against the idea, crying and going on whenever I persisted.†
p. 51.9 *

persisted = continued
I think you know this, and yet you persist.†
p. 148.8

persist = continue
"I persist," she said darkly.†
p. 148.8
You persist in behavior, despite your own knowledge of what is good for you and what is not.†
p. 149.1
Since then, I have had the thought from time to time that indeed these were the vessels of the animal's spirit, and that perhaps our souls, too, reside not in our minds but in the very flesh of us, the frank, gray tissue which seems most remarkably possessed of the will to go on, to persist.†
p. 247.7
Instead I wanted to tell her that everything about us wasn't really as it seemed, that nothing was, not even the war, which had never quite arrived and probably now never would, that we—the soldiers, officers, the girls—all had somehow entered an untoward region of stasis from which we would soon find deliverance, that we needed only to persist for a short time longer, that we must hold fast to the general order of things.†
p. 293.1
And though nearly every soul I've closely known has come to some dread or grave misfortune, I instead persist, with warmth and privilege accruing to me unabated, ever securing my good station here, the last place I will belong.†
p. 346.6

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