All 11 Uses of
persist
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- There was nothing down to poor poetry,—properly speaking, that which persisted in vegetating in manuscripts,—which was not forced, in order to make something of itself, to come and frame itself in the edifice in the shape of a hymn or of prose; the same part, after all, which the tragedies of AEschylus had played in the sacerdotal festivals of Greece; Genesis, in the temple of Solomon.†
Chpt 1.5.2persisted = continued
- "And who is Sister Gudule?" persisted Mahiette.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- Oudarde persisted,—"No, sister, that is no beverage for January.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- "Are you sure," persisted Claude, with his penetrating glance, "that it is only a word and not a name?"†
Chpt 2.7.2
- Meanwhile the procurator had exclaimed: "If the demon which possesses this goat, and which has resisted all exorcisms, persists in its deeds of witchcraft, if it alarms the court with them, we warn it that we shall be forced to put in requisition against it the gallows or the stake.†
Chpt 2.8.1persists = continues
- Do you persist in denying it?†
Chpt 2.8.1 *persist = continue
- "Do you persist in your denial?" demanded the president coldly.†
Chpt 2.8.1
- "My dear child," said he, "do you still persist in your denial?"†
Chpt 2.8.2
- "Mademoiselle," resumed the caressing voice of the procucrator of the Ecclesiastical court, "for the third time, do you persist in denying the deeds of which you are accused?"†
Chpt 2.8.2
- "You persist?" said Jacques Charmolue.†
Chpt 2.8.2
- She tried to make him enter the cell; but he persisted in remaining on the threshold.†
Chpt 2.9.3persisted = continued
Definition:
to continue -- often despite difficulty or to repeat a question