Continual

Examples

• Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Notwithstanding the great increase occasioned by such early marriages, there is a continual complaint of the scarcity of hands in North America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Only in this island of Luggnagg the appetite for living was not so eager, from the continual example of the _struldbrugs_ before their eyes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Before that time it seemed impossible that explosive gases would ever be harnessed as steam had been and made to do continual successful work in a cylinder and behind a piston. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Yet in the light of it government becomes alert to a process of continual creation, an unceasing invention of forms to meet constantly changing needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And yet, though every leaf may seem still, there is a continual rushing sound of movement all around--not close at hand. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• By folk the good ladies of course mean themselves, for indeed they are kept in a continual fry by this system of mutual invasion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Not the least fear had I: I believe I would have followed that frank tread, through continual night, to the world's end. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is liable, besides, to almost continual variations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She can have no idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Mr. Woodhouse could not be soon reconciled; but the worst was overcome, the idea was given; time and continual repetition must do the rest. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I am weary of this continual call upon me for strength. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Every body who saw it was pleased, but Mr. Elton was in continual raptures, and defended it through every criticism. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The old folks encouraged me by continual invitations to supper, and by leaving us together, till at length it was time to explain. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I avoided explanation, and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Dr. Cruger saw a continual procession of bees thus crawling out of their involuntary bath. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• As soon, however, as the consciousness of all this was forced by continual repetition on Marianne, she could stay no longer. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• They are more likely, therefore, to have that continual and careful attention which that maintenance necessarily requires. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• For conscious life is a continual beginning afresh. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I deserve to be under a continual blush all the rest of my life. Jane Austen. Emma.
• At first they lived in open villages outside the ruins of the cities they had destroyed, but there stood the model for them, a continual suggestion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These simple everyday occurrences seem to show that the molecules of a gas must be in a state of continual and rapid motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The promised visit from her friend, as Edmund called Miss Crawford, was a formidable threat to Fanny, and she lived in continual terror of it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The town is a continual fair or market, to which the inhabitants of the country resort, in order to exchange their rude for manufactured produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The dealers have no respite from the continual visits and examination of the excise officers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He scarcely ever left her alone, but followed her like a shadow, he was like a doom upon her, a continual 'thou shalt,' 'thou shalt not. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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