All 4 Uses of
persist
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- On Sundays, Miss Pross dined at the Doctor's table, but on other days persisted in taking her meals at unknown periods, either in the lower regions, or in her own room on the second floor—a blue chamber, to which no one but her Ladybird ever gained admittance.†
Chpt 2.6persisted = continued
- They persisted in changing colour sometimes, and they would be occasionally dilated and contracted by something like a faint pulsation; then, they gave a look of treachery, and cruelty, to the whole countenance.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- For, the footsteps had become to their minds as the footsteps of a people, tumultuous under a red flag and with their country declared in danger, changed into wild beasts, by terrible enchantment long persisted in.†
Chpt 2.24
- "But go and see that droll dog," the little man persisted, calling after him.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
to continue -- often despite difficulty or to repeat a question