Incessant

Examples

• Fanny, cried Tom Bertram, from the other table, where the conference was eagerly carrying on, and the conversation incessant, we want your services. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Even the log of wood which lies heavy and motionless on our woodpile is made up of countless billions of molecules each in rapid incessant motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I have so sworn never to speak to you again, that I shall not be able to support their incessant quizzing. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Pin-pricks hurt more than cannon balls, and incessant worries are far more painful than great calamities. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• One, his incessant restlessness and excitability--which may be caused, naturally enough, by unusual energy of character. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Here again occurs the reference to the incessant night-work at Menlo Park, a note that is struck in every reminiscence and in every record of the time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His watchfulness of my guardian was incessant. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The water was very high and the rains were incessant. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And it was chiefly the poorer citizens of Athens who sustained this empire by their most vigorous and incessant personal service. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have had such incessant rains almost since October began, that we have been nearly confined to the house for days together. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The sword overhung the emperor and spurred him to incessant activity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The use of Japanese bamboo for carbon filaments was therefore continued in the manufacture of lamps, although an incessant search was maintained for a still more perfect material. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Greek dances are rather monotonous, I am afraid, said Roylands, who found this incessant swaying a trifle wearisome. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The anxious cares, the incessant attentions of Mrs. Weston, were not thrown away. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The action is incessant, for in any dramatic representation intended for the motion-picture film every second counts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The blackish soil is kept forever soft by the incessant drift of spray, and a bird would leave its tread upon it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Thus was swept away the possibility of reaping the reward so richly earned by years of incessant thought, labor, and care. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And, in fact, Miss Ophelia's industry was so incessant as to lay some foundation for the complaint. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The information was unnecessary; for the incessant cawing of the unconscious rooks sufficiently indicated their whereabouts. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He went away slowly; for, in spite of his iron spirit and determination to keep up, the incessant fatigue was beginning to tell on his frame. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Under the incessant slow variations of these astronomical, telluric, and geographical influences life has no rest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It became necessary to take proper preliminary legal steps to protect the interests which had been acquired at the cost of so much money and such incessant toil and experiment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The thunder of the cannon was so loud and incessant, that I could not hear something I much desired to hear, until I made a great exertion and awoke. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You're a bad colour, Lily: this incessant rushing about is beginning to tell on you, she said. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Think of the task you undertook--one of incessant fatigue, where fatigue kills even the strong, and you are weak. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He did not approve of a too lowering system, including reckless cupping, nor, on the other hand, of incessant port wine and bark. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The footsteps were incessant, and the hurry of them became more and more rapid. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Editor: Moll