He seemed moody, and somewhat restless; yet persisted in remaining in his kennel.

Although the verb, which came into use circa 1670, and persisted for a full century, is rare, the substantive 'a cully' (= a fool) is very common.

he persisted with a strange vehemence.

I have set myself against the lofty histories, although I tire upon their lower slopes and have not yet persisted to their upper and windier ridges.

" The surpriseit might almost have been taken for alarmwhich he had shown at the first sight of Alec seemed to have given place to a gentle and amiable weariness, which persisted through the recital of the Captain's experienceshow his errand of courtesy, or gallantry, had led to his being on the road across the heath so late at night, and of what he had seen there.

That last wonderfully glad thought which had filled brain and heart when she sank down on her fir-boughs had persisted throughout her moments or hours of unconsciousness, pervading her subconscious self gloriously, flowering spontaneously in an awakening mind: Mark King had come back to her in her moment of peril; he had battled for her like the great-hearted hero that he was, he had saved her and had brought her home.

Her hope persisted until half-past nine: it then began to fade, and, at ten o'clock, was extinct.

Look at the genus Lepidotus, again, persisting without a modification of importance from the Liassic to the Eocene formations inclusively.

But it would be the gravest dereliction of duty to persist from wilfulness, obstinacy, or pride, in adhesion to a view perhaps hastily expressed in opposition to authority and argument.

Among individuals in whom the juvenile thymus persists after puberty, no growth of hair occurs on the face, and in precocious involution or destruction of the pineal, hair appears on the face and in other terminal regions in children of six or less, a symptom classical in the child who suffered from a tumor of the pineal, and discussed immortality with his physicians.

When vanquished they ask no quarter, and in victory they shew no compassion; and though many millions in number, they all persist as one man, in resolving to subdue the whole world under their dominion.

Hooper's hand went up to his forehead in the ghost of a military salute, but a sneering smile persisted on his lips.

The monkey seems to learn almost immediately that it is not worth while to persist in a tendency which although previously profitable no longer yields satisfaction, whereas in the crow, pig, rat, and ring dove, the unprofitable mode of response tends to persist during a relatively large number of trials.

It is reported that Buchanan's reverence for his royal pupil, did not prevent his giving him a severe whipping when he persisted against remonstrance, in disturbing him whilst he was reading.

But they the more persisted in their asseverations of the truth of what they had affirmed; and some of them had seen the slaughtered bodies of the suitors dragged forth of the hall.

But an earlier Quebec Act, without its outrageous boundary clause, would have been well worth the risk of passing; for the delay led many French Canadians to suppose, however falsely, that the Empire's need might always be their opportunity; and this idea, however repugnant to their best minds and better feelings, has persisted among their extreme particularists until the present day.

Claire's impulse to send for them had been purely instinctivean atrophied survival of clan-spirit that persisted beyond any real faith in its significance.

In England this mediaeval tradition persisted into the seventeenth century, as the school rhetorics and the treatises on poetry show.

That which persists of the representation which is passing into unconsciousness, and which makes its reappearance in consciousness possible, is called a "trace" in reference to its departed cause, and a "disposition" (Angelegtheit) in reference to its future results.

But which is the swampy soil in which this social disease can spread and persist like leprosy in tin collective organism?

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