When he felt her pulse, her eyes rested on him with more persistence than they had done for a long while, as if she felt some content that he was there.
And the course is all the clearer from there being no salary in question to put my persistence in an equivocal light.
Will was conscious that he should not have been at Middlemarch but for Dorothea; and yet his position there was threatening to divide him from her with those barriers of habitual sentiment which are more fatal to the persistence of mutual interest than all the distance between Rome and Britain.
Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistence which, as we know, enables a white soft living substance to make its way in spite of opposing rock.
Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
I never ceased to be fascinated by their persistence in eating buttered toast with their gloves on, and I observed with admiration the unconcern with which they wiped their fingers on their chair when they thought no one was looking.
But the Badger never came along, and every day brought its amusements, and it was not till summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors, and the swollen river raced past outside their windows with a speed that mocked at boating of any sort or kind, that he found his thoughts dwelling again with much persistence on the solitary grey Badger, who lived his own life by himself, in his hole in the middle of the Wild Wood.
Its persistence was uncanny.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
—— · · · Energy and persistence conquer all things.
CHESS BOARD The black and white chequerboard doodle suggests patience and persistence.
One day, the God was finally moved by her love and persistence and would like to do her a special favor.
Of course, that does not mean that it is easy; it means that persistence and focus are necessary.
There would be no powerful will bending her in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.
Persistence is the key to success.
Persistence ·All things in their being are good for something.
) If you wish to succeed , you should use persistence as your good friend , experience as your reference , prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
Secondly, my parents teach me one important merit, which is persistence.
" Too many success stories have been lecturing us about courage and persistence.
" Despite his youth and shy manner, colleagues say that Cao's maturity shines through in his persistence.
