Max had come out, and, fearful that the presence of the tall stranger portended some new move on the Frenchman's part, Sowerby had followed, hoping to glean something by persistency when clues were unobtainable by other means.
In short, his reflections were becoming somewhat bitter; and persuaded that he had nothing to gain by remaining there any longer he was about to walk off, when his really remarkable persistency received a trivial reward.
It is one that is constantly recurring throughout the whole history of Greek ceramics, with more or less persistency and prominence.
You see, my friend, all is a snare to the unhappy; the smallest matter brings the sick mind back to its woes; but the greatest evil of certain woes is the persistency which makes them a fixed idea pervading our lives.
Notwithstanding the terrible fate that was standing before her, and the unflagging persistency of the magistrates and all others present in assuming her guilt, she was several times accused of laughing.
And yet with what persistency of conscience had he struggled to be true and honest!
Evening came, or rather the time came when sleep weighs down the weary eyelids, for there is no night here, and the ceaseless light wearies the eyes with its persistency just as if we were sailing under an arctic sun.
He walked, he slid, he scrambled, he tumbled, with a persistencywhich one could not but admire.
His name and family were of Scottish origin, but he combined with the shrewd sense and grim persistency of Scotland some measure of the keen partisanship which marks the Irish Orangeman.
In these reflex movements, I seem to see not an explanation, certainly, but a rough image of the industrious persistency of the insect, still toiling away at its business, even when there is nothing useful left to do.
Although he had fixed notions about his own rights, and extraordinary persistency in getting them, he never showed temper at a repulse; he simply and firmly persisted till he had what he wanted.
But he waited with the inconceivable patience and persistency of his race; besides, he was certain.
But when the moment of departure came, Chrysanthème, who would not go away without seeing Yves, asked for him with a thinly-veiled persistency which was remarkable.
By its very weirdness, and by the persistency of its incantation, it ends by producing in my scarcely awakened brain, an almost religious impression.
In the great assemblage of annulose animals, the two highest classes, the insects and spider tribe, exhibit a wonderful persistency of type.
The song before us furnishes a good example of thepersistency of childish tradition.
He had been long complaining of fulness and oppression in the head, and his doctor had warned him of the consequences that would follow his persistency in continuing to work, early and late, as if he were still a young man.
Passionate and impulsive as was his true nature, he could follow and woo art with that calm persistency and method which seem to be the surest way of winning her smiles.
Everything combined to deprive me of what dog's sleep I could by sheer persistency snatch.
It is habitual communion with Christ that alone will give the persistency that makes systematic, continuous efforts for Him possible, and yet will keep systematic work from degenerating, as it ever tends to do, into mechanical work.
I ask, Has that future in any of its aspects any such power over you as that it stirs you to any earnestness and persistency of desire, or is it all shadowy and vain, ineffectual and dim?
Such is their stubborn persistency in a bad practice, though they themselves call it honor.
She had not been confirmed, however, and never said a word to Phil and me about our persistency in staying away from church, though the captain used to lecture Phil quite soberly about it.
The crofters and their friends are thoroughly organized, and seem likely to insist upon their claims with the persistencythat is characteristic of their race.
The name "fixed idea" is misleading if it be taken to imply that persistency and tendency to action are properties belonging to a certain class of ideas only.
Other impulses, not usually classed as moral, no doubt share this characteristic of persistency or recurrence.
Oscard noticed the persistency of her gaze at the time, and remembered it again afterwards.
On the following day the brave man’s persistency was rewarded.
The Cocopa muat indicates the persistency of the medial vowel.
This in brief is the chief cause of the obstinate persistency of numerals in all known languages.
