113 collocations for persisting

What did you come here for at this hour?" persisted the man.

" "And, how long is it since you observed this sad change in poor Merton?" persisted the lady.

"Did!" persisted Rosamond.

" "Oh, yes, a round swelled-up place; but what is the good of it?" persisted Dodo.

"Nothing whatever?" persisted the King.

"No, my boy; how could she when she hadn't it to give?" "But, auntie, I'm up and down sure I felt that wallet in my breast-pocket, when we came out of Dorlon's," persisted Horace.

What harm could he do now, more than he has ever done, by coming to his uncle's house as a visitor?" still persisted Sibyl, rather foolishly.

" "But you are English," persisted the boy.

" "Well, anyway you said that blue didn't suit me," persisted my wife.

" "But I didn't say that" persisted Marjorie.

"'But you knew this man Kershaw,' persisted his Honour, 'since you wrote to him?' "'Pardon me, your Honour,' said the accused quietly, 'I have never, to my knowledge, seen this man Kershaw, and I can swear that I never wrote to him.' "'Never wrote to him?' retorted his Honour warningly.

If you persist, the first thing you know you will have the chariot of a justly indignant revolution rolling along in our midst and gnashing its teeth as it rolls.

" "But suppose she leaves it to you?" persisted Beth.

" "If Mr. Dunkerley had asked you?..." persisted Bonover, knowing Lewisham's respect for etiquette.

" "But it's practically the same thing," persisted the Bostonian.

But just as pent steam finds an escape somewhere, so will the man who persists break at one point or another through confining circumstance.

"Bad eye he no make himself," persisted the little chauffeur.

" "Just one wedding," persisted the Commodore.

"But what do you call him?" persisted Coquenil.

Robert de Genneville's death?' still persisted the coroner.

my prince ..." "Nay, but you cannot know," he persisted violently, "sweet, gentle creature that you are, you cannot guess the agonies which a strong man endures when he is gnawed by ruthless insane jealousy ...

The lei in Hawaii around the hat or the neck spells the same meaning, but the flood of outsiders has lost Hawaii all but the merest remnant of its ancient ways, while here still persisted customs which a century of European difference and indifference has not crushed out.

" "I'm not so sure o' that," persisted her daughter.

A gamester resolves to leave off play, by which he finds his health impaired, his family ruined, and his passions inflamed; in this resolution he persists a few days, but soon yields to an invitation, which will give his prevailing inclination an opportunity of reviving in all its force.

But there persists about it a curious discursiveness that reflects upon the power and value of the initial impetus.

113 collocations for  persisting