"Persist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... till the lady came into the room; at which, and the figures of Slipslop and her gallant, whose heads only were visible at the opposite corners of the bed, she could not refrain from laughter; nor did Slipslop persist in accusing the parson of any motions towards a rape. The lady therefore desired him to return to his bed as soon as she was departed, and then ordering Slipslop to rise and attend her in her own room, she returned herself thither. When she was gone, Adams renewed his petitions ...
— Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 • Henry Fielding
... "I thought I would persist in denying myself till I had done my work, but I find it won't do; the matter refuses to progress, and this excessive solitude presses too heavily; so let me see your dear face, E., just for ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... you'll still persist in your confounded pedantry about your science. Now, what the devil has science to ...
— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... met in a thick and threatening line. "You will have very much more than you bargain for if you persist," he said. ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... to perfection and truth."[7] From this point of view there can be no doubt as to which of these conceptions of Evolution is the more rational and satisfactory; that which would explain it by a simple tendency in living matter to persist and spread, and would see in all organic variety only the selected means to that somewhat colourless end; or that conception which would explain it by a tendency in living matter to come into ever fuller correspondence ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell
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