perdurable

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The specter of this guilt -- this perdurable archetype of the hostile homecoming -- animates today’s encounters, which seem to have swung to the other unthinking extreme.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 2, 2011

The house is surrounded by 200 rosebushes, all tended by a very tall gardener with thorn scratches on his hands and a look of perdurable tweed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The book, as its name suggests, would write finis to Travis McGee, the perdurable, persnickety shamus whose demise, white-haired Author John Dann MacDonald once vowed, would occur after his tenth color-coded* starring role.

From Time Magazine Archive

The New York Herald: "By far the finest and most perdurable novel in English that has as yet come out of the War."

From Time Magazine Archive

A good enough one so far as this life is concerned, but unhappily it takes no account of another, a second and perdurable life without change of personality.

From Far Away and Long Ago by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)