And there, aloof, yet persistently with her, moving wherever she moved, was the Will Ladislaw who was a changed belief exhausted of hope, a detected illusion—no, a living man towards whom there could not yet struggle any wail of regretful pity, from the midst of scorn and indignation and jealous offended pride.
Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent.
Lydgate, when abroad, had already been interested in this question: he was strongly convinced against the prevalent practice of allowing alcohol and persistently administering large doses of opium; and he had repeatedly acted on this conviction with a favorable result.
Lydgate talked persistently when they were in his work-room, putting arguments for and against the probability of certain biological views; but he had none of those definite things to say or to show which give the waymarks of a patient uninterrupted pursuit, such as he used himself to insist on, saying that "there must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry," and that "a man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.
"—were the longings that came back the most persistently.
It was not more possible to find social isolation in that town than elsewhere, and two people persistently flirting could by no means escape from "the various entanglements, weights, blows, clashings, motions, by which things severally go on.
Casaubon did not find his spirits rising; nor did the contemplation of that matrimonial garden scene, where, as all experience showed, the path was to be bordered with flowers, prove persistently more enchanting to him than the accustomed vaults where he walked taper in hand.
He wiped his moustache for the twentieth unnecessary time, and could not quite keep his hand steady, and the young woman opposite saw his hand not being quite steady, and her eyes raked him persistently.
Arbuthnot, for she too, though he had done his best to thaw her into confidences, had remained persistently retiring.
Fisher persistently unfortunate.
She would not stoop to admit that she meant to rival Gilbert in schoolwork, because that would have been to acknowledge his existence which Anne persistently ignored; but the rivalry was there and honors fluctuated between them.
They kept coming in so persistently and so often.
" "It" was a small matter that had, somehow, stuck in her mind more persistently than its importance seemed to justify.
" As the service proceeded, the clergyman drew such pictures of the graces, the winning ways, and the rare promise of the lost lads that every soul there, thinking he recognized these pictures, felt a pang in remembering that he had persistently blinded himself to them always before, and had as persistently seen only faults and flaws in the poor boys.
The man searched her persistently without eating and resting.
Before, during and after the recession, demand for one sort of worker has been persistently stronger: jobs that involve assisting or caring for other people - from fast-food workers to home-health aides to nail polishers.
Meanwhile, business fixed investment has been persistently weak.
Parents from Shanghai, for example, seem to be the most insistent, as they persistently harp at their children.
Students give up easily and can't behold on consistently and persistently.
Now I know that I cannot pursue a worthy goal, steadily and persistently, with all the powers of my mind and yet fail.
