Perpetually

Examples

• She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Skirmishes of this sort passed perpetually during the little campaign--tedious to relate, and similar in result. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was perpetually pegging at the floor the moment she left his sight. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A man is perpetually eating. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mrs. Snagsby is so perpetually on the alert that the house becomes ghostly with creaking boards and rustling garments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Without him we should be good friends; but that six feet of puppyhood makes a perpetually-recurring eclipse of our friendship. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Margaret was weary and impatient of the accounts which Dixon perpetually brought to Mrs. Hale of the behaviour of these would-be servants. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They are almost as tame as the canaries, and they are perpetually let out like the canaries. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Talking of her deceased husband perpetually, this good lady never mentioned to strangers that he WAS deceased. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The thought of this perpetually stung him; it was a picture before his eyes, wherever he went and whatever he was doing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Raymond rose perpetually in their estimation; but one man held a superior command to him in their armies. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Gusts and swells perpetually trouble the mariner's course; he dare not dismiss from his mind the expectation of tempest. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Professor Max Müller in his time, for example, harped perpetually on the idea of sun stories and sun worship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He used to go and sit in his own room perpetually. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He is always in extremes, perpetually in the superlative degree. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through Longbourn House. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Life begins perpetually. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Seeing that individual differences of the same kind perpetually recur, this can hardly be considered as an unwarrantable assumption. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• More than a third of the members ranged themselves under Raymond, and their number was perpetually encreasing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When they ought to have spoken, they didn't speak; or when they did speak they were perpetually at cross purposes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I slept some hours, but perpetually disturbed with dreams of the place I had left, and the dangers I had escaped. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I haven't seen her at all--I've perpetually missed seeing her since she came back. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Mrs Boffin who, perpetually smiling, had approached and drawn her plump arm through her lord's, most willingly complied. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We were perpetually talking of our Oratorios, and they were perpetually talking of their Symphonies. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It would be nothing; I could see him with perfect indifference, but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He could not keep himself from looking at her, and watching her perpetually. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• How can one be condescending to a lady to whom one owes a matter of forty pounds, and who is perpetually throwing out hints for the money? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If any well marked distinction existed between a domestic race and a species, this source of doubt would not so perpetually recur. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Meanwhile, at Milton the chimneys smoked, the ceaseless roar and mighty beat, and dizzying whirl of machinery, struggled and strove perpetually. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Miss Halcombe began to read as follows:-- 'You will be tired, my dear Philip, of hearing perpetually about my schools and my scholars. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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