Here be it said, that this pertinacious pursuit of one particular whale, continued through day into night, and through night into day, is a thing by no means unprecedented in the South sea fishery.
-- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale, Chapter 134 The Chase—Second Day.
This unerring and deadly shot after so long and pertinacious a pursuit, gave him credit with us all....
-- "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" in the Southern Literary Messenger Volume 18 for June 1852; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857 and 1859) page 310
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