Example Sentences

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Fortitude, that "persistive constancy" that to Shakespeare was the greatest quality of human wills.

From The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul by Jarrett, Bede

It stands to reason that the fragile tissues of culture are dislocated, and its delicate edges defaced, by such persistive governmental brutalization as the inhabitants have undergone.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman