Indefinitely

Examples

• Catherine Barkley was greatly liked by the nurses because she would do night duty indefinitely. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But this agreeable holiday freedom with which Lydgate hovered about the flower of Middlemarch, could not continue indefinitely. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But intellectual tools are indefinitely more flexible in their range of adaptation than other mechanical tools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You couldn't do these things indefinitely. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I observed that the latter always spoke of himself indefinitely, as 'a man', and seldom or never in the first person singular. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The advantages of this process are that the fruit juices will remain sweet indefinitely, will not ferment, and are free from all deleterious matter. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Set going under adequate conditions they are magnets for gathering and retaining an indefinitely wide scope of intellectual considerations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He concluded that anything which could be created indefinitely by a process of friction could not be a substance, such as sulphur or hydrogen, but must be a mode of motion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• She wanted it also, but she wanted to put it off, to put it off indefinitely, she still had some pity for Gerald, some connection with him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Upon my honour,' said Mr. Micawber, indefinitely kissing his hand and bowing with his genteelest air, 'I do Homage to Miss Wickfield! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But that readjustment cannot be indefinitely delayed; it must come soon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This device is known as an electromagnet, and the charging and discharging of such a magnet may, of course, be repeated indefinitely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Every activity, however specific, is, of course, general in its ramified connections, for it leads out indefinitely into other things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the first place, his knowledge extends indefinitely beyond the range of the pupil's acquaintance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Since they represent the results of prior experience, their value for future experience may, of course, be indefinitely great. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In fact the growth of the newly opened Western country must have been indefinitely retarded if men had had to cut the grain by hand and harvest it in the primitive manner. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Air is more dense at the surface of the earth, and becomes continually more rarified as the altitude increases, until it becomes an indefinitely tenuous ether. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You anticipate an indefinitely threatening, dreadful doom? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• With such perfect freedom of movement, the spindle at high speed could find its own center of revolution, and an indefinitely high speed and quadrupled efficiency were attained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But the iron would necessarily have to be drawn out in such a process, while the cotton wool could be indefinitely packed together. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In all the higher forms this process cannot be kept up indefinitely. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Future explorations of an indefinitely more detailed and extensive sort remain to be made. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The world was bound by the snowy Himalayas to the north and spread indefinitely to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• New metals, chemicals, and elements had become available in large numbers, gases had been liquefied and solidified, and the range of useful heat and cold indefinitely extended. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Editor: Stanton