Lexicographical Neighbors of Persues
Literary usage of Persues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Truly Eminent English Poets by Percival Stockdale (1807)
"tuating self-importance, if the most absurd crotchet strikes his childish fancy,
he violently persues it, in spite of the most awful interdicts of the ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"persues contains the variable star Algol (qv). PERSEVERANCE, or FINAL PERSEVERANCE,
generally referring to the doctrine that the salvation of any individual ..."
3. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography by Virginia Historical Society (1893)
"... this late Statute hath provided, for the title of the Statute is to prevent
frauds and perjury, the preamble or Key of'the Statute persues the same, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"Think of thy martyr'd grandfather, and shun That race by which thy father Is undone.
Th' hereditary hatred of that crew persues the Stewarts, and descends ..."
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