"Persistent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... praise, told me he considered Alfred Wigan the best 'gentleman' he had ever seen on the stage. I think this impression was due in a great measure to Wigan's entire absence of affectation, and to his persistent appeal to the 'judicious' but never to the 'groundlings.' Mrs. Alfred Wigan was also a ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... notebook again, and, since the thing was being so persistent, he decided he might as well ...
— Out Like a Light • Gordon Randall Garrett
... so long counted astute, clearheaded, and well- governed, had been suddenly foisted out of balance, shaken from his imperious composure, tortured out of an assumed and persistent urbanity, by the presence in Greenwich Palace of a Huguenot exile of no seeming importance, save what the Medici grimly gave him by desiring his head. It appeared absurd that the great Leicester, whose nearness to the throne had made him the most ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... my words because there grew About my life persistent pride; And you were loved, who never knew ...
— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall
... trouble was the Brethren's doctrine of justification by faith alone. Of all the charges brought against them the most serious and the most persistent was the charge that they despised good works. They were denounced as Antinomians. Again and again, by the best of men, this insulting term was thrown at their heads. They taught, it was said, the immoral doctrine that Christ had ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton
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