On this trip he had a great deal of trouble with the boat as both the Doctor and the darkey would persist in sleeping, after they had been on the route a short time.
However, if you will persist in going, all I can do is to tell you that as soon as you feel the symptoms, make for the shore and get into a bed as soon as you can.
It is nothing to what will come," Ernest went on, "if you persist in your policy of having these socialists and radicals of all sorts at your house, myself included.
If you persist in making me an enemy, you have but yourself to blame.
You and I shall part; this is, I shall go to my tent if you persist in repeating from him.
How can you expect decent treatment if you will persist in behaving like a lunatic?
Why would he persist in throwing away his life in that foolish manner?
And," continued I, "you persist in refusing to print the appeal to arms?
To persist was possible, to resist was not possible.
Binet designates it a "test of patience," because success in it depends upon a certain willingness to persist in a line of action under the control of an idea.
Mr. Hansford," said Virginia, "why will you persist in being so obstinate?
If youpersist in this resolution, unchivalrous as I believe it to be, yet I will try to see my duty in ameliorating the condition of these unhappy females as far as possible.
But tell me, why it is that you can see nothing good in this young man, and persist in perverting every sentiment, every look, every expression to his injury?
The same terms were offered in case of immediate surrender that had been granted to Velez Malaga, but the inhabitants were threatened with captivity and the sword should they persist in their defence.
To persist in a war is to bring complete desolation upon the land and ruin and death upon its faithful inhabitants.
And of what avail is our defence," said they, "when the enemy is determined to persistin the siege?
By this means the Moors would be convinced of the settled determination of the sovereigns to persist in the siege until the city should surrender, and he trusted they would be brought to speedy capitulation.
Lumps in the breast, occurring during the nursing period, are often due to inflammation, but these generally have no relation to cancer unless they persist for a long time.
The milder form often follows the more severe, and maypersist for a long time.
But physical evolutionists who persist in attributing all the phenomena of living beings to physical agencies only, ignore the most important changes occurring in every form of living matter.
The balloon will, of course, persist in doing so until the weight of the included gas and of the entire apparatus exactly balances an equal bulk of the surrounding air.
Why do you persist in living in the one spot where people know you and have a bad opinion of you?
She believed that he made it a rule to persist in always doing the contrary to other people.
The fates seemed to have a grudge against these New England fishermen, and would persist in throwing them in my way, although I was not on a whaling-ground.
The mode, and the energy of the opposition should always conform to the nature of the violation, the intention of the authors, the extent of the evil inflicted, the determination manifested to persist in it, and the danger of delay.
But then, he won't always let me go with him, and he will persist in walking home from dinner parties and studying, as he says, the effect of London by night.
She was vexed because Ericson wouldpersist in treating her as a child.
Delacroix is an intellectual man, full of knowledge as well as imagination, but he has one idiosyncrasy, he will persist in trying to become the colleague of M.
Now you know you would persist in buying three-parts of what is there.
Others persist for a long time, with a faint phosphorescent glow.
In that case, they unhesitatingly attack the partitions below them, while their companions, who form the great majority, persist and perish in the upper cells.
She is playing a deep game with you; her refusal is not sincere; she expects you will return and persist in asking for Charley, and intends then to make money out of the operation.
But if you persist in remaining, at least write a letter to the senator and tell him that having heard the rumors about Michu you have dismissed him from your employ.
We might perhaps obtain a pardon for an abortive attempt by releasing our victim; instead of that wepersist in detaining a man from whom we can obtain no benefit whatever.
If, on the contrary, the two races, though numerically unequal, are in sufficient proportion that neither can absorb the other, both persist indefinitely beside each other upon the same soil.
The hybrid race which they engender, seems also topersist indefinitely; but only in appearance, for they constantly intermarry with the pure races, while the latter marry between themselves.
It is well known that the unfortunate Roman Catholics were charged with the crime of having set London on fire, and there appears to have been a very sufficient reason why the people should persist in affirming this fable.
Several of the courtiers offered heavy bets that Charles would not persist in his resolution of never altering this costume, and they were right, for very shortly afterwards it was abandoned.
