Now that's what I call persistency in the face of adversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference

She hammers her facts into our heads with a persistency which is often more than a match for our stupidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference

This hint at MacLachlan's persistency exasperated me the more.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Boer annexations continued with insolent persistency, and the High.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

Mr. Gallatin's persistency no advance was made in the negotiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

She haunts Wayne Hall with a persistency worthy of a better cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference

He had great persistency and great industry, and a wide-awake mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference

One knows the fiendish persistency of the shunted goods train at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914] Reference

Both are evergreens -- standing for the persistency of the Hebrew race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

“Nay,” answered Birnier, wondering at the persistency of this idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

"The greatest thing about him is his persistency of purpose," he replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

Saniel thought that the judge looked at him with a disagreeable persistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But, in spite of all reasoning, the illusion clung with startling persistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile Triumphant] Reference

Yet we found ourselves obliged to exhaust all the persistency and tact we had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference

By firm persistency and persuasion require an open look of recognition and peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

Mrs. Rusker's confidence in her plan was unshaken, and her persistency unchecked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

They hug the great towns and their neighbouring resorts with astonishing persistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Austria, with a perseverance and a persistency that it would be difficult to parallel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

His dogged persistency puzzled her and routed all her usual array of graceful phrases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Even so, his courage and persistency, and personal sacrifices, were wonderful to behold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Lost Sister] Reference

But it is excellent for the muscles of the leg and it cultivates patience and persistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

It was not loud, but in time -- it continued with much persistency -- it became plainly vicious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

As a method it is characterized by thoroughness, persistency, completeness, generality, and system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

There was a pause, and Florentin felt the judge's eyes fixed on him with an aggravating persistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It is difficult to ignore the vitriol, noise, persistency and media attention generated by the Tea Party movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln Mitchell: Whither the Tea Party] Reference

Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm, the persistency, the heroic endurance, the self-sacrifice they have manifested.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The German guns showed marked persistency, not actually against the holes which formed Headquarters, but all around.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

Accordingly I laid out for myself a course of studies to be pursued in garrison, with regularity, if not persistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

And Miss Bloxam, turning half-round in her seat, devoted her attention to the polo-players with laudable persistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belles and Ringers] Reference

The persistency with which he followed up this success exhausted him, and made a season for rest and repairs necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

"Have I taken your bedroom?" asks he, anxiously, watching with cruel persistency the soft roses that bloom again at his words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

While at the post-restante, we experienced a singular example of the persistency and malevolence of the typical Italian beggar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

Such persistency and eloquence, nevertheless, as were later displayed by those dealers in describing their wares are seldom heard!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

No one knew exactly how it started, but it grew and spread with such persistency that it finally reached the ears of the chaperon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference

The strength and persistency of this human tendency, when uncontrolled or when fostered between groups, make it a very serious menace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

Yet geology demonstrates that the persistency of subterranean movements in one direction has not been perpetual throughout all past time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference