perserveringly

Updated: May 2, 2025

But, depending on my own strength; having no reason to apprehend danger from headstrong and disgraceful impulses; I too little perhaps cast up my eyes to the Supreme Director: in whom, mistrusting myself, I ought to have placed my whole confidence and the more, when I saw myself so perserveringly addressed by a man of this character.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4