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" The affair gave rise to the report, which you have perhaps heard- for it persists- that Irving and I quarreled and became enemies.
- "Recollections of a Varied Life", George Cary Eggleston. -
We know that discrimination against minorities persists despite our allegiance to this ideal.
- "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various. -
But in his shoulders and knees she put strength, and placed in his bosom the boldness of a fly, which, although frequently driven away from a human body, persists in biting,- and the blood of man is sweet to it.
- "The Iliad of Homer (1873)", Homer.