zid

But as the Dainik Bhaskar advertisement reminds us, zid - that dogged perseverance and persistence that simply will not be cowed down is the way to go.

Persevere and change your world Shantanud 2008

The Dainik Bhaskar group of newspapers is running an interesting advertising campaign titled "zid karo – duniya badlo" - persist and change the world.

Persevere and change your world Shantanud 2008

'She was in a sort of nervous state when I zid her last; and so thin and hollow-cheeked that 'a do seem in a decline.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

She's too good for a dairymaid -- I said so the very first day I zid her -- and a prize for any man; and what's more, a wonderful woman for a gentleman-farmer's wife; he won't be at the mercy of his baily wi 'her at his side.'

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

She put her mouth against the wall and kissed the shade of his mouth; I zid her, though he didn't. '

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

Thursday of all days in the almanack, we was here as we mid be now, only there was no churning in hand, when we zid the girl's mother coming up to the door, wi 'a great brass-mounted umbrella in her hand that would ha' felled an ox, and saying 'Do Jack Dollop work here?

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

'I used to think 'twas your wife's fate not to have a liven husband when I zid 'em die off so,' said Gad.

Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

But the next moment a strawmote would have knocked me down, for I called to mind that if thy father and mother had had high words once, they'd been at it twenty times since they'd been man and wife, and I zid myself as the next poor stunpoll to get into the same mess ....

The Return of the Native 1878

To save my soul I couldn't help laughing when I zid en, though all the time I was as hot as dog-days, what with the marrying, and what with the woman a-hanging to me, and what with Jack Changley and a lot more chaps grinning at me through church window.

The Return of the Native 1878

Ah, Humph, well I can mind when I was married how I zid thy father's mark staring me in the face as I went to put down my name.

The Return of the Native 1878