Constantly

Examples

• Constantly she talked to me about what I should do to be thy wife. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• For his observation was constantly confirming Mr. Farebrother's assurance that the banker would not overlook opposition. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He knows how vast the field is, and how many paths constantly beckon him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I am sure we are constantly hearing, ma'am, till it becomes quite nauseous, concerning their wives and families,' said Bitzer. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The two wedding parties met constantly in each other's apartments. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Although the beak is thus very inferior as a sifter to that of a shoveller, yet this bird, as every one knows, constantly uses it for this purpose. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The gloomiest problem of this mysterious life was constantly before his eyes,--souls crushed and ruined, evil triumphant, and God silent. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And thus, through years and years, and lives and lives, everything goes on, constantly beginning over and over again, and nothing ever ends. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then add gradually about nine ounces of the orange-flower water, stirring constantly, continuing this operation until a fine, creamy emulsion is the result. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The water which flows on the earth is constantly changing its form; the heat of the sun causes it to evaporate, or to become vapor, and to mingle with the atmosphere. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Whether the stock is or is not constantly employed, depends, not upon the trade, but the trader. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He said he was in full communication with his department and was receiving supplies constantly. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• With Edison's telephone there is used a closed circuit on which a battery current constantly flows, and in that circuit is a pair of electrodes, one or both of which is carbon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Why Amelia can be so fond of her, or have her in her room so much, or walk out with her so constantly, Mrs. Sedley cannot conceive. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• That is why we, the children of frontiersmen, city builders and immigrants, surprise Europe constantly with our worship of constitutions, our social and political timidity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• All the gay world are constantly asking me about you. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The wheel is kept revolving, and a man on one side is kept constantly busy in filling the molds with the molten material as they reach him. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Whatever they could prove (which is usually anything you like), they proved there, in an army constantly strengthening by the arrival of new recruits. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• You have been useful all your life; steadily and constantly occupied; trusted, respected, and looked up to? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I am constantly wanting you to draw him for me, Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This interest was increased materially with the growth of mail-order businesses and the constantly increasing use of direct-by-mail advertising by business concerns, large and small. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The young man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The most important part of the expense of government, indeed, that of defence and protection, has constantly fallen upon the mother country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• True as it is that great changes are imperceptible, it is no less true that they are constantly taking place. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She constantly evinced these nice perceptions and delicate instincts. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They were, therefore, by turns, constantly with us, and generally he who attended brought with him a friend or two for company. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She practises very constantly. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The pulp thus prepared is placed in a large vat, where it is kept constantly agitated, to prevent the more solid parts from being deposited. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

Editor: Miriam