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Persevere   /pərsəvˈɪr/   Listen
Persevere

verb
(past & past part. persevered; pres. part. persevering)
1.
Be persistent, refuse to stop.  Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist.  "The child persisted and kept asking questions"






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"Persevere" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Scotch party at Glen Lynden, we have to record that they continued to persevere and prosper. Wool became one of the staple articles of colonial commerce, and the hills of the Baviaans River sent a large contingent of that article to the flourishing seaport of the ...
— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne

... be well enough to go away on Friday; he would retire to the inn at Scourie, and try to persevere with his literary work. Mr. Macrae would not hear of this; as, if the miscreants were captured, Blake alone could have a chance of identifying them. To this Blake replied that, as long as Mr. Macrae thought that he might be useful, he was ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang

... listener to this eager talk may perhaps at first feel wearied. Suffocated by words, repelled by frequent crudity and confusion of metaphor, he may even be inclined to call the thought childish and the tone overwrought. But let him persevere. Let him read these letters as chapters in an autobiography, noting purpose and circumstance, and reading between the lines, as he may easily do, the experience of the writer. Before long the very accents ...
— Letters of Catherine Benincasa • Catherine Benincasa

... the sponge.] "I did not persevere in my inquiries from the spirit though still anxious to learn more." ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante

... Spike to persevere. The cutter had been overhauling him, hand over hand, but since the yawl was relieved of the weight of no less than eight men, the difference in the rate of sailing was manifestly diminished. The man-of-war's ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper


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