Incessantly
[ɪn'sesntlɪ]
Definition
(adv.) Unceasingly; continually.
Checker: Seymour
Examples
- But the sound of his artillery and musketry was heard incessantly. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- After he withdrew from school, he read, wrote, and ciphered (in the intervals of manu al work) almost incessantly. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was a joke, my good sir--a practical joke, nothing more, he whined incessantly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He worked incessantly until 12 or 1 o'clock at night. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Through all these rapid visions, there ran an undefined, uneasy consciousness of pain, which wearied and tormented him incessantly. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence was for ever before my eyes, and I raved incessantly concerning him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We suffered torture no pen can describe from the hungry appeals for bucksheesh that gleamed from Arab eyes and poured incessantly from Arab lips. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The push button is an essential part of every electric bell, because without it the bell either would not ring at all, or would ring incessantly until the cell was exhausted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But I saw one of his feet, softly, quietly, incessantly beating on the carpet under the table, and I felt that he was secretly as anxious as ever. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There were also to be regarded as detached members of it the Bergmann brothers, manufacturing for Mr. Edison in New York, and incessantly experimenting for him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The dry, sharp cough, which teases him at most times, seemed to be troubling him more incessantly than ever. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- All this time it was incessantly hopping on behind and gaining on him, so that when the boy got to his own door he had reason for being half dead. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He was engineer of half a dozen lines that were building, and he traveled incessantly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For the present we are settled nowhere; for the present we travel incessantly--the less baggage we carry the better for ourselves. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Experimentation was incessantly going on with this in view, and in the processes of evolution changes were made here and there that resulted in a still greater measure of perfection. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Rachel has been incessantly restless and excited since she first heard of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was true to an ideal as to the pole-star, but was incessantly making improvements in every direction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His head was covered completely with a large quantity of very white hair, and he chewed tobacco incessantly, nodding to friends as they passed by. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Checker: Seymour