Great goodness of heart in the face of persistent and unwelcome attentions appeared to be responsible for the late engagement.
Mr. Mott spent the evening by himself, and retiring to bed at ten-thirty was awakened by a persistent knocking at the front door at half-past one.
While thus founding and cementing their dynastic influence upon the basis of a widespread popularity, the Medici employed persistent cunning in the enfeeblement of the Republic.
The denudation and abrasion of innumerable ages, wrought by slow persistent action of weather and water on an upheaved mountain mass, are here made visible.
It is strange that no persistent and successful effort has been made to let day- light through it.
Cortina entirely fibrillose, superior and persistent in the form of a ring, at length ferruginous with the spores.
In such cases the volva is less persistent than usual and its free portion then furnishes merely an acute edge or narrow margin to the bulb.
It never forms a persistentmembranous collar on the stem.
Cortex white or yellowish, at first a thickish continuous layer, then breaking up into circular or irregular persistent patches with fimbriate margins.
Cortex a white soft delicate continuous coat, drying up into a thin furfuraceous persistent layer on the surface of the inner peridium.
The plant is easily recognized by its large, cup-shaped volva and cap, which is not smooth, as is usual in a species with a persistent membranous volva, more or less scaly with minute tufts of fibrils or tomentose hairs.
The species resembles Amanita verna, from which it is separated by its large persistent annulus, the elongated downwardly tapering bulb of its stem, and especially by its elliptical spores.
Cortex at first flocculose, white or yellowish, drying up into a dense furfuraceous persistent coat, which becomes ochraceous or brownish in color, and sometimes obscurely areolate.
But thepersistent Allen did not establish his claim.
About half a century later it was only by persistent gatherings of public contributions that his very home was saved to the nation, so had his estate become divided and run down.
It was blowing continuously from the south throughout Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday--I never remember such a persistent southerly wind.
It is not often I have a sentimental attachment for articles of clothing, but I must confess an affection for my veteran uniform overcoat, inspired by its persistent utility.
Touched and devout she fetched out one of her volumes, then with her needle at random pricked among the leaves, and when she opened the book at the spot, she found a passage that spoke of the persistent following of the righteous path.
His eloquence and his bold and ever persistentwheedling and dandling gave her not a second's respite nor leisure to reflect and deliberate.
But at last her sister's love and tender, persistent effort broke through the wrappings of grief and shame that had kept her bound in silence and in Henrietta's arms she sobbed out the pitiful tale that had come to so tragic an ending.
She saw in it wistfulness and loneliness and felt behind it the persistent heart-hunger of the grown man for the mother in woman, for maternal understanding and solicitude and affection.
Whitaker's voice, persistent and analytical, rang in his ears.
That desire for adulation in a woman's eyes, that curious persistent fever was, I'm sure, a sort of sex vanity.
His spirit was unconquerable, his ingenuitypersistent and amazing.
The long, persistent struggle at last culminated in the World's Temperance Convention, which may be called our Waterloo in that reform.
The intense excitement of this period in New Jersey roused many women loyal to freedom and the independence of the Colonies to persistent action.
Shortly after fertilization, the little rounded, flat-sided fruit begins to form inside the persistent pink calyx.
Having trailed across Europe, the persistent hardy plant is now creeping its way over our continent, much to the disgust of cattle, which show unmistakable dislike for a single leaf caught up in a mouthful of herbage.
The rounded, three-angled, bright red, shining berry is seated in thepersistent calyx.
Fruit: Clusters of egg-shaped scarlet berries, tipped with the persistent calyx.
Of those who pleaded with him for new hymns, none was more persistent than his friend, Pastor Gunni Busck.
Thy chill persistent rain has purged our streets Of gossipry; pert tongue and idle ear By this, consort 'neath archway, portico.
Since, deaf to Comedy's persistent voice, War still raged, still was like to rage.
The sea lay out at distance crammed by cloud Into a leaden wedge; and sorrowful Sulked field and pasture with persistent rain.
Some use There cannot but be for a mood like mine, Implacable, persistent in revenge.
Only thus could he account for Mr. Mayne's persistent loyalty.
As she had lent to him from her stores of fortitude and clear-sightedness, she levied toll for herself on his wealth of persistent and elastic cheerfulness, his gust for life and all that life brings with it.
She evinced a gentle yet persistent curiosity about his work, about his companions and his pursuits in London.
To this wonderful technique, adding solidity to a graceful execution of the ground-plan, belongs all the credit for the Mendoot holding out, notwithstanding persistent ill-usage.
He may do so by the adoption of either of two systems: the first ispersistent attention, the second is persistent neglect.
Persistent and serious infection, however, is capable of producing nervous symptoms even in children who were not before nervous, and we must recognise that prolonged infection makes a favourable soil for neuroses of all sorts.
Sometimes a still worse fault manifests itself, when nurse and mother speak before the child of the smallness of his appetite, and of his persistent refusal of this or that article of diet.
Physiological stimuli, incapable of producing any visible reaction in healthy children, habitually determine widely spread and persistent inflammatory reactions.
Or, again, a little pharyngeal irritation which would ordinarily be incapable of disturbing sleep may be sufficient to keep the child wide awake all night with persistent and violent coughing.
The idea that the child possesses a strong will, which can and must be broken by persistent opposition, is based upon this tendency of the child.
It is characterised by sudden profuse and persistent vomiting and by very great prostration.
In other cases the chart shows a slight persistentrise over many weeks or months.
The first of the factors which encourage the persistent refusal of food is the extreme susceptibility of the child to suggestion.
Late into the night, or rather far toward the morning, Bessemer was discovered at a cabaret where his persistent mother and brother had traced him, too much befuddled with his evening's carouse to talk connectedly.
The last two were sufficiently persistent to have both of them recognized.
His name was a household word in the West, for thousands knew and appreciated the manly spirit and genial mind of the earnest, persistent and sanguine Engineer.
Constant and persistent attacks have occasioned great delay and expense.
Persistent pursuit lasting for years, however, brought them one by one to justice, one being killed near Kansas City while resisting arrest, another killed at Cripple Creek under similar circumstances.
A great many people say, 'One thing have I desired,' and fail in persistent continuousness of the desire.
They who will can surround themselves with persistent gladness, and they who will can gather about them the thick folds of an everbrooding and enveloping sorrow.
Lurching suddenly forward and dropping to his knees, he fired an angry shot at the persistent woods.
The steady, cumulating influences of the whole atmosphere of civic life must lead to a slow but persistent change.
They pick up a few data, ask a few friends who are as little informed as themselves, but do not think of asking the only group of men who make a serious, persistent study of the market their lifework.
