But Robert is a terribly persistent fellow, and I'm afraid his failure may only spur him on to trying again.

Despair, remorse, anxiety, loneliness held him-in thrall while he roamed the streets of the old city, almost hopeless now of finding her but still doggedly persistent in his search.

Then a book agent would appear, blind, but doubly persistent, with a five-dollar illustrated volume recounting minutely the Johnstown horror.

"You are dreadfully persistent!"

New roads were built, hydraulic operations were conducted on more scientific principles, fertile meadows were won from the river Saale by systematic drainage, and in many a struggle with Nature an intelligently persistent will obtained the victory.

He would light the lamps and candles so as to flood the room with light, for he hoped that by so doing he might possibly diminish the intolerably persistent and dull throbbing of his arteries which beat under his neck with redoubled strokes.

His eyes flashed up to hers in the glass, glowing with the smouldering fire, oddly fitful, oddly persistent.

We shall find that mystical thought, and the mystical attitude, are curiously persistent in English literature, and that although it seems out of keeping with our "John Bull" character, the English race has a marked tendency towards mysticism.

Commynes hesitated a long while; but Louis was even more perseveringly persistent than Commynes was hesitating.

This method of reaction, although inadequate, proved remarkably persistent, and it is doubtful whether it had been wholly overcome at the conclusion of the experiment.

Scales of the stipe very few, seldom persistent, rarely over 3-16 of an inch long.

What do you think, Dagaeoga?" "My thought has not taken shape yet, Tayoga, but if 'tis fancy then 'tis singularly persistent.

He has a strangely persistent sense of gratitude.

Without this "passionately persistent repetition," and without also the constant varying of apparently useless activities, the organism, says Professor Royce, "would remain the prey of the environment.