She told how some of the weaker ones were finally left behind, because they could get on faster without them, but that the place where they were left was a terrible one under a cruel man, and that her child would surely have died there before the winter was over, and that when she Persisted in keeping on with her husband, they beat her, but at last consented on condition that she would leave her baby boy.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
But still he Persisted, "Amalia-never mind what your father thought; tell me your own faith."
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
"That was not all," he Persisted.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee