But Gammelyn Persevered, and what happened was this: the fire burnt away all the threads of the cambric, but was not hot enough to melt the gold; and when all the cambric was burnt, then he drew out of the fire a dress of beaten gold, light as gossamer, thin as bee's-wing, soft as swan's-down, and fragrant as a wind when it blows through a Sultan's garden.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
But for all that, Gammelyn Persevered.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
Mrs. Ralston sighed a little, but she Persevered.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell