But to all these strenuous efforts the Archbishop Elector Hermann von Wied persistently remained a stranger.
Canisius wrote to entreat him to come, but Gropper was so thoroughly convinced of the uselessness of the disputations, that he persistently refused to take part in them.
He had persistently refused this request, and now enjoined it upon Barbara to follow his example.
But if she should now persistently withdraw from him, and let him realize how deeply he had offended her, she could not fail to win the game.
Chinese mind more or less persistently from the Han Period (206 B.
The Emperors T'ai Tsung and Kao Tsung of the T'ang dynasty frequently invited him to Court, but he persistently refused to go.
In that case it is certainly hard that his skin should so persistently testify against him by refusing to remain on his face!
Our pursuers therefore, even if they had ridden as rapidly and as persistently as we had, could not possibly have reached Berber yet.
The Khalifa has frequently sent messages to him to return to Omdurman, where he would be most honourably received, but Rabeh has persistently refused.
Sooth is Truth and the Hibernian chre may be connoted with the "Cray," which occurs sopersistently in the Kentish dene hole district, e.
In Gaul, statues of a divinity bearing a wheel upon his shoulder have been found, and solar wheels figure persistently in Celtic archaeology.
In all probability this is a typical and true picture of the perennial argosies which periodically and persistently fared forth from Northern Europe and the Mediterranean into the Unknown.
It is believed that horse meat is now taboo in Britain, because the eating of horse was so persistently denounced by Christianity as a heathen rite.
Illustration] Here we have some new combinations, which recurpersistently in its allies.
The ovoids in cobalt are identical with those of iron; the higher ovoids, which replace the cone of iron, show persistently the crystalline forms so noticeable throughout this group.
The Eries were another Huron-Iroquois nation who appear to have persistently held aloof from the league.
To Agriculture and the subservient arts, we have devoted, and shall persistently devote, more means and space than any of our rivals.
Yet my conviction is strong that nearly all land which is to be persistently cultivated will in time be underdrained.
At this exasperating crisis, it was only natural that her mind should revert persistently to the one spot of light in the gloom.
He was dressed like the footboy of a prosperous tradesman, and carried an oilskin covered basket—and of a surety bore no resemblance to the crippled beggar who had followed Robin so persistently on his way to the conference in Lincoln’s Inn.
Having commenced the work, he now toiled persistently on, allowing himself neither pause nor rest until he had disposed of every spar which his unaided strength would allow him to move.
This was done, the shark keeping close to the bait, turning it over and over with his nose, but persistently refusing to take it.
From his earliest youth he had chosen to follow evil rather than good; he had turned persistently away from the right; and now there was neither time nor opportunity left him for reparation.
This celebrated play was at firstpersistently attributed to Miss Elizabeth Carter.
Korea has already consented thereto, but China has surreptitiously andpersistently impeded the purpose.
Not the least clear declarations came from Russia, whose conduct, however, could at least as well be explained by another principle which she has persistently denied.
He persistently sacrificed simplicity of composition to decorative ostentation, and tranquillity of feeling to theatrical effect.
How persistentlythe voice of Phil Abingdon rang in his ears!
Persistently the note of danger came to Paul Harley.
The species that persistentlyneglects to do so, or is unable, soon is utterly destroyed.
Usually, however, it is a persistentlysilent animal.
Even the adult males are not persistently aggressive, or inflamed by savage desires to hurt somebody.
But in our Primate House, Suzette felt that her infant was surrounded by a host of strange enemies, from whom it must be strongly and persistently guarded and defended.
It is really strange that the parrots and cockatoos all should take kindly to man, trust him and even like him, while nearly all other birds persistently fly, or run, or swim or dive away from him.
He is so courageous and so persistently bold that he is much given to lying in wait for hunters and attacking with real fury.
The brown rat has persistently accompanied man all over the world.
Of all our wild animals, not even excepting the apes and monkeys, our young bears are the most persistently playful.
I stood and listened,--what was it that hovered so persistently at my back?
May the Speaker persistently and strenuously refuse to allow you to catch his eye, and, at the next election, may your constituency reject you!
It would not have done for her to think a table heavy, or a chair, or to have diverted her mind in any other way, for it was the effect of relaxation in her own body that she wanted, which came from persistently thinking her legs heavy.
A person who is persistently strong in having his own way may be found inconsistently weak when he is thwarted in his own way.
The example of a woman who had for years been an invalid is exceedingly interesting as showing how persistently people "hold on.
He is a successful man himself, and don't you think it needs a very fine nature to keep up faith in a person who seems persistently to fail?
We can summarize Marie's characteristics by stating that from the earliest age of which we can get satisfactory record, when she was about 10 years old, she has been persistently addicted to falsehoods.
She had persistently denied the existence of any of them in Chicago, and, indeed, stated that her father and mother had died years previously.
The hypnotic influence of assertions made confidently and persistently began to have its effect on our mind.
Why writers on China should have persistently represented the people of this land as being highly educated is a mystery to those who profess to be only moderately acquainted with the subject.
Austria had persistently adopted a policy of pin-pricks and aggravating police provocation towards the Italians of the Adriatic Littoral and of the Trentino, while encouraging the Slavonic element in the former and the Germans in the latter.
By his son, Richard Kearney, he was always called 'My lord'; while Kate as persistentlyaddressed and spoke of him as papa.
The newspapers have so persistently been keeping you before the world, every one wants to see you.
The last shot having been discharged with fatal effect, our trapper, so persistently lionized by painters, put his horse to his utmost speed and soon after overtook the camp, which had now passed the strait of danger.
