persewere

Updated: May 2, 2025

Then a sail was hoisted for steering purposes, and the men gave a hearty cheer as they began to drop down the river with their prize. "Lor', mates!" said Dick Bannock, "who'd ha' thought of our getting of her after all. Shows as it never does to say die. `Persewere, says you, `and never mind the difficoolties. What yer larfin' for, Tom Fillot? Don't I say what's true?"

George Manville Fenn - The Black Bar

She was always a-follerin' him about, and dinnin' in his ears, till at last he couldn't stand it no longer. "I'll tell you what it is, my dear," he says one day; "if you persewere in this here sort of amusement," he says, "I'm blessed if I don't go away to 'Merriker; and that's all about it." "You're a idle willin," says she, "and I wish the 'Merrikins joy of their bargain."

Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers