But he has even used me more cruelly still; he persists in suspecting me; it is he who is having me watched.
In reflecting, he becomes deluded; in reasoning, he makes mistakes, and, thinking himself right, persists in them.
He persists, then sees his mother in private, kills a courtier who was eavesdropping, and convicts his mother of her sin.
She persists in living for five or six weeks, despite her shattered health, so as to give a last helping hand and open the door for her family.
And this mere shred, hardly more than a skin that persists in living without eating, stoutly defends her egg-sack, shows fight at the approach of any tramp.
If the visitor persists until Edison has seen both sides of the controversy, he is always willing to frankly admit that his own views may be unsound and that his opponent is right.
At other times the unsettled condition persists, and his spleen is vented not only on the original instigator but upon others who may have occasion to see him, sometimes hours afterward.
Supply in the economic sense means the amount available at the given time in the market; but despite the great areas since brought into the world-markets, the false idea of a century ago still persists in the text-books, and shapes economic reasoning.