incessant
Definition: Unceasing, not stopping
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A Christmas Carol - By Charles Dickens, Albert Franklin Blaisdell
...captive, bound, and double-ironed, " cried the phantom, " not to know that ages of incessant labor, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed ....
The Count of Monte Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet, Pier Angelo Fiorentino, Henry Valentin
...Whoever had selected this retired portion of the grounds as the boundary of their walks or scene of their meditative musings, was abundantly justified in their choice by the absence of all glare, the cool, refreshing shade, the screen it afforded from the scorching rays of the sun that found no entrance there even during the burning days of hottest summer, the incessant and melodious warbling of birds and the entire removal from either the noise of the street or the bustle of the hotel ....
The mill on the Floss - By George Eliot, Charles Henshaw Ward
...In this case, the linnet-throated soprano, and the full-toned bass, singing--`` With thee delight is ever new, With thee is life incessant bliss, " believed what they sang all the more because they sang it ....
Beauchamp's Career - By George Meredith
...Beau-champ deceived Miss Denham too, and himself, by saying, as if he cherished the philosophy of defeat, besides the resolution to fight on,--`` It 's only a skirmish lost, and that counts for nothing in a battle without end : it must be incessant . "...
In Circling Camps - By Joseph Alexander Altsheler
...The skirmishers hung in clouds on either flank of the advancing column, and in front, covering it on three sides, displaying a pernicious activity, running and creeping among the undergrowth and inequalities of the earth, their brown, fierce faces showing at times, and then gone again like ghosts, their rifles cracking so often that the reports became an incessant tattoo, while the little leaden messengers whistled as they sped through the air on their mission ....
Yeast - By Charles Kingsley
...But do you mean to say that their labor is so severe and incessant f " It 's only God 's blessing if it is incessant, sir, for if it stops, they starve, or go to the house to be worse fed than the thieves in gaol ....
Prose Works - By Walter Scott
...`` l In the meanwhile it seemed still doubtful whether these sacrifices had not been made in vain; for the French, though repulsed in every point, continued their incessant attacks with a perseverance of which they were formerly deemed incapable; and the line of chequered squares, hitherto successfully opposed to them, was gradually, from the great reduction of numbers, presenting a diminished and less formidable appearance ....
The Tiger of Mysore - By George Alfred Henty, William Henry Margetson
...As they did so, crackling volleys broke out, while from the batteries on the sand-hills an incessant fire was kept up upon them ....
Before the Dawn - By Joseph Alexander Altsheler
...The battle now made a complete circuit of the house, though yet distant, and from every point came the thunder of the cannon and the rifles, the low and almost rhythmic tread of great armies in mortal struggle, and the rising clouds of dust, ashes and smoke shot with the rapid flame of the guns, like incessant sheet-lightning ....
The Pit - By Frank Norris, Doubleday, Page & Company, J.J. Little (Firm)
...To the left, where the faqade of the Board of Trade blocked the street, the activity was astonishing, and in and out of the swing doors of its entrance streamed an incessant tide of coming and going ....
Treasure Island - By Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Rhead
...The ship was talking, as sailors say, loudly, treading the innumerable ripples with an incessant weltering splash; and until I got my eye above the window-sill I could not comprehend why the watchmen had taken no alarm ....
Pride & Prejudice - By Jane Austen
...Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction; and a moment 's consideration making her also sensible that it would be wisest to get it over as soon and as quietly as possible, she sat down again, and tried to conceal, by incessant employment, the feelings which were divided between distress and diversion ....
Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...Think of the task you undertook--one of incessant fatigue, where fatigue kills even the strong; and you are weak ....
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...water from her dripping dress Runs on the streaming floor; From every dark and clinging tress The drops incessant pour . '...
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Frederick S Boas, T. H. Allen
...The footsteps were incessant, and the hurry of them became more and more rapid ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton
...He thought of the theaters she must have been to, the pictures she must have looked at, the sober and splendid old houses she must have frequented, the people she must have talked with, the incessant stir of ideas, curiosities, images and associations thrown out by an intensely social race in a setting of immemorial manners; ^ tnd suddenly he remembered the young Frenchman who had once said to him : `` Ah, good \/ ....
Sense and Sensibility - By Jane Austen
...Edward was now fixed at the cottage at least for a week; for whatever other claims might be made on him, it was impossible that less than a week should be given up to the enjoyment of Elinor 's company, or suffice to say half that was to be said of the past, the present, and the future; for though a very few hours spent in the hard labor of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different ....