" He raised his hand and began gently stroking his coat lapel, his fingers quickly crossing it in a vain search for some imaginary wrinkle, moving back and forth with a steady persistence, while he watched me, still amused, still indifferent.

Yew shan't" Here Abe's stubborn will, so rarely set against Angy's gentle persistence, rose up in defiance: "We're a-gwine on a reg'lar A No. 1 spree with the boys, an' no women-folks is a-goin' ter stop us neither.

Unnoticed by the director the Count d'Artigas eyed the attendant with singular persistence.

If they did, and once started prying with that keen scent and indomitable persistence of theirs, we might as well chuck up.

But one can talk, even to a picture in a frame; at least, Jack could, with wistful persistence.

" Then the calm persistence of the man conquered the swaying, mutable, passionate crowd.

He might perhaps have succeeded in softening them, but when he knew that his mother urged them on, he understood their fierce persistence, and he gave up the hope of winning them back.

In any event, she now conversed of authors with a fitful persistence like that of an ill-regulated machine.

Yet the thought recurred to him many times after this with a foolish tiresome persistence; and he found himself going over the circumstances of his friend's acquaintance with Marian, his hasty departure from Lidford, his return there later during Sir David Forster's illness.

"I must go," she said, with that invincible persistence which he never could combat.

Professor Royce argues that "in the mere persistence of the playful child one has a factor whose value for mental initiative it is hard to overestimate."

'Her father's obstinate persistence in digging the well was a great annoyance to the whole household, and, unimaginative as Eleanor is, I fancy sometimes, from her avoidance of the spot, that she has some superstitious idea connected with the well,that she fears through it some great misfortune may happen to some of the family.'

Lee's military career is a wonderful example of a combination of brilliancy, daring ingenuity of plan, promptness of action, and patient persistence under all kinds of discouragement, but it was not only through these qualities that it was possible for him to retain control, through three years of heavy fighting, of the territory of Virginia, which came to be the chief bulwark of the Confederacy.

The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable.

The resolute persistence of the besiegers convinced Baghasian of the need of reinforcements.

" "What is his name?" asked the judge, with a persistence very uncommon in him.

Down below, engineers were at work, making a path up the cliff, while boats travelled up and down with a dogged and admirable persistence.

the duller persistence of the French.

To be sure, by reason of my somewhat exceptional persistence and ingenuity, I managed to be always in possession of some substitute for a pencil, surreptitiously obtained, a fact which no doubt had something to do with the doctor's indifference to my request.

But he stuck to his point with extraordinary persistence.

She had patience with his fantastic persistence, but it annoyed her.

And I am happy to say that through his great ability in this direction, and his unbounded persistence, the work was carried forward to a grand success.

At length, however, his admirable persistence overcame my reticence.

The Princess, chained her mother's side, and frankly restive under her filial duty, clung to her new acquaintance with a persistence too flattering to be analyzed.

She was a poor weak little woman, the veriest spoilt child of fortune, and she clung to this belief with a fond foolish persistence, a blind devoted obstinacy, against which the arguments of Mrs. Pallinson were utterly vain, although that lady devoted a great deal of time and energy to the agreeable duty which she called "opening dear Adela's eyes about that dissipated good-for-nothing Mr. Saltram.