" "If I did say it, I'm sorry," persisted Mr. Sharp.

"But you'll admit, I guess, that if there was any way to carry out my scheme, it would be a jim dandy idea," the other persisted.

"Yes; keep quiet, Andy!" "But he'll give us the slip, don't you see?" persisted the other.

" "I reckon you're away off yet," persisted Frank.

But the poor child persisted in her conviction that she was a repulsive object, and when Valentin pressed her to name their wedding-day"I, your wife!" cried she.

"On approaching a house he was received by a dog which persisted in leaving its compliments on one of his legs.

[Pompey] if he persisted in error; that he commanded an army independent of Pompey, so that besides his authority, he had strength to compel; and if he did so, all men would be indebted to him for the quiet of Italy, the peace of the provinces, and the preservation of the empire."

And while this pleasant intimate silence persisted, the noises of the market-place made themselves prominent, quite agreeablyin particular the hard metallic stamping and slipping, on the bricked pavement under the window, of a team of cart-horses that were being turned in a space too small for their grand, free movements, and the good-humoured cracking of a whip.

"I really think she is," Janet persisted, softly persuasive.

Had I not thought I should have obliged you by the other method, (especially as the ceremony might have been over before any thing could have operated from your uncle's intentions, and of consequence no untruth persisted in,) I would not have proposed it.

During any gloomy intervals of cessation from the tempest, the sailors, exhausted by fatigue, and abandoned to despair, surrounded De Gama, entreating him not to devote himself and them to inevitable destruction, as the gale could no longer be weathered, and they must all be buried in the waves if he persisted in the present course.

So long as a man persisted in a wrong attitude before God or man, there was no day so laborious or exhausting, no night so long or drowsy, but Theodore Parker's unsleeping memory stood on guard full-armed, ready to do battle at a moment's warning.

"You are taking a terrible risk," persisted Gillot.

He tried to argue the thought out of his brain, but it persisted, and grew stronger.

The consuls persisted in the same opinions they ever entertained; but nearly all acquiesced with Varro, and none with Paulus except Servilius, the consul of the former year.

While in one part terror and flight prevailed, in another the battle was obstinately persisted in, though with little hope.

Hannibal having now advanced within a short distance of the place, sent forward a body of Getulians under a commander named Isalca, and orders them in the first place, if an opportunity of parley should be given, to win them over by fair words, to open the gates, and admit a garrison; but, if they persisted in obstinate opposition, to proceed to action, and try if in any part he could force an entrance into the city.

The interpretation of the eighth article of the Louisiana treaty contended for by France will, I apprehend, be persisted in and all indemnity refused until it shall have been discussed and decided.

his tormentor persisted, drawing the clothes warmly round him, in a luxury of indifference to the time of day.

" "Now if it was only a good novel," his wife persisted; "but nothing but travels, geographies, and such like.

" "But my mother says she is a remarkable girl," persisted Laura.

A typical case was that of a family in which the tradition of Negro origin had persisted long after all trace of it had disappeared.

In every instance in which managers have persisted in their habits of arbitrary command, they have failed.

" "I would teach you some truths that you have never learned," he persisted, "the fatuity of mere bravado, the uses of life.

" Upon the strength of such an inducement to the one who should put the finishing stroke to the building, Plante, Pillon, and Manaigre, whom the waggish Plante persisted in calling "mon nègre," whenever he felt himself out of the reach of the other's arm, all went vigorously to work.