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Once the lights go out, it is still the 19th century as far as children and ghosts are concerned, reason enough for the perdurability of tales about phantoms, poltergeists and demons.

From Time Magazine Archive

This content makes it a designation for the persistence and perdurability of desiderated quality—from metaphysical unity and spirituality to the happy hunting-grounds or a woman's428 affection.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

For my part, I cannot conceive the liberty of a heart or the tranquillity of a conscience that are not sure of their perdurability after death.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)