Meanings of strange persistence in English

The words dwelt in her memory with a strange persistence.

Did it not show a strange persistence, even a certain lack of pride in her?

What is the mystery of its strange persistence?

You must have heard of his trial, and his strange persistence in refusing to say who the guilty party was.

They were conveyed from their homes to internment camps in filthy cattle trucks and were cruelly ill-treated with a strange persistence.

She had never had any lovers, and the fault had been her own, from a strange persistence of childhood in her temperament.

They haunted her mind with a strange persistence-theytook time to the beat of her falling paddle, and would not leave her:

But no tyranny of custom would explain the pleasure of sacrifice and the strange persistence of feudal idealism which are revealed by some extraordinary facts.

He always had the same book-that"Cardinal's Snuff-box"-andporedover it with a strange persistence, that could not have been inspired by the book.

"But, citizen," continued the young man with strange persistence, "I stand in need of correction.