Which preposition to use with persisting

in Occurrences 1156%

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

for Occurrences 20%

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.

with Occurrences 18%

he persisted with a strange vehemence.

to Occurrences 18%

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.

through Occurrences 13%

" 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.

throughout Occurrences 9%

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.

until Occurrences 7%

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

in Occurrences 6%

" "As I told you before, Belle," said I, "the chief difficulty which I find in teaching you Armenian proceeds from your persisting in applying to yourself and me every example I give.

from Occurrences 6%

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.

without Occurrences 6%

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

after Occurrences 6%

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.

as Occurrences 5%

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.

during Occurrences 4%

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.

on Occurrences 4%

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

against Occurrences 3%

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.

among Occurrences 2%

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.

beyond Occurrences 2%

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.

into Occurrences 2%

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

like Occurrences 1%

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

about Occurrences 1%

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

of Occurrences 1%

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.

after Occurrences 1%

In the case of Lameness Persisting after the healing of all appreciable lesions, then neurectomy is followed by good results.

as Occurrences 1%

It is fair, we think, to take it that the mere fact of the lateral cartilage persisting as cartilage is due in large measure to its constant movement.

Which preposition to use with  persisting