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  • But the midget Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come was inexorable; the tiny phantom's indifference to the question made Dan Needham shiver.†   (source)
  • Once removed from its recharging platform at CERN, the canister would count down inexorably.†   (source)
  • The davenport makes von Rumpel think of an eighteenth-century Dutch tobacco box made out of brass and copper and encrusted with tiny diamonds that he examined earlier this week, and the tobacco box sends his thoughts, as inexorably as gravity, back to the Sea of Flames.†   (source)
  • The convoy was moving at its old inexorable pace.†   (source)
  • Already this routine of his is entering the past, like a lover seen from a train window, waving goodbye, pulled inexorably back, in space, in time, so quickly.†   (source)
  • As the husky voice scraped inexorably on, she ventured to raise her head a little, and was gratified to see that Judith too was peeking.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Arthur began to feel his apparently nonexistent scalp begin to crawl as he found himself moving slowly but inexorably forward toward the console, but it was only a dramatic zoom on the part of whoever had made the recording, he assumed.†   (source)
  • And if you held your head perfectly still, you could see the minute hand creeping inexorably down from XII to V. If you held your bead perfectly still you could see that — The clockface was gone.†   (source)
  • Eragon was inexorably dragged forward by his own fascination.†   (source)
  • Inexorable forces had us in tow.†   (source)
  • The drift of the game was in his favor—"The rule changes played right into our hands," he said—but hardly inexorable.†   (source)
  • There were so many of them, and we found ourselves slipping inexorably back down the hill as the turbaned warriors closed in on us, driving us back by sheer weight of numbers, sheer volume of fire.†   (source)
  • Burnham wrote: "a feeling of discouragement allied to hopelessness came over those who then first realized the extent and magnitude of the proposed undertaking, and appreciated the inexorable conditions of a time-limitation to the work….†   (source)
  • It was, to most minds, an inexorable progression.†   (source)
  • It soared with what seemed to me inexorable and dangerous purpose, as if there were no power in the universe that could stop it.†   (source)
  • There is nothing inexorable about the use of such technology.†   (source)
  • That's an inexorable law in small and large things alike.†   (source)
  • He was becoming inexorably trapped as an ice-prisoner in his own home—much to his delight.†   (source)
  • Nothing happened; the black smoke-mass came on inexorably, and now it was starting to have something of a shape—a malformed, enormous, hideous shape, its glowing eyes altering, rounding to the size of saucers, spilling a dreadful light.†   (source)
  • Jeremiah de Saint-Amour loved life with a senseless passion, he loved the sea and love, he loved his dog and her, and as the date approached he had gradually succumbed to despair as if his death had been not his own decision but an inexorable destiny.†   (source)
  • The short blade was being forced inward inexorably, and Feyd-Rautha focused on the fact that a man could also die on an unpoisoned blade.†   (source)
  • For three hours—until six o'clock—he persisted in the same inexorable vein: that Judge Fielding's admonitions should be heeded with the utmost seriousness and that reasonable doubt existed.†   (source)
  • He had merely been taking refuge in the outward adventure in order to avoid the clash and tension of the adventure proceeding inexorably within.†   (source)
  • But the boy sees, and his clammy fingers pull mine away from my head with inexorable force.†   (source)
  • Because the AIDS virus's penetration of the human species was still in its early stages, and the penetration was happening inexorably.†   (source)
  • Now, as he continued to meet the eyes of this unaccountable enemy—the only one he had faced in all the long night's search for bloodshed—horror came upon him and he was filled with a sudden fear of his words, gentle and inexorable as the falling of bitter snow in a land without refuge.†   (source)
  • The poor are driven by inexorable necessity into 'the poor quarters' of the city, where they pull each other further down from all chance and hope."†   (source)
  • The seemingly inexorable rise of Pepsi—which had also been so clearly signaled by market research—never materialized either.†   (source)
  • —Bowa Johar, Balti poet, and grandfather of Mouzafer Ali MORTENSON IMAGINED THE messenger traveling inexorably to the southeast.†   (source)
  • When its training was complete, Spearhead would be thrust to the forefront of the great human tidal wave of hundreds of thousands of Marines fighting their way from island to island as it bore down inexorably on Japan.†   (source)
  • As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.†   (source)
  • I needed to let the lust, the excitement blot out all consciousness, and I thought of the kill over and over and over, walking slowly up this street and down the next, moving inexorably towards it, saying, It's a string which is pulling me through the labyrinth.†   (source)
  • She saw it advancing slowly but inexorably.†   (source)
  • He was tormented inexorably by morbid fantasies involving them, by dire, hideous omens of illness and accident.†   (source)
  • Our lives had been inexorably linked, and now we were cut from each other forever.†   (source)
  • Dr. Will Rudolph passed inexorably through the night toward his unsuspecting prey.†   (source)
  • The great god Tash! inexorable Tash!†   (source)
  • Then why this inexorable attraction to her?†   (source)
  • That night, La Mesa, Escanaba, Bridgeport and Monterrey, though thousand of miles apart, were inexorably united by the same feelings of tension, hope and anguish provoked by the anticipation of the Little League championship tournament: The American cities because they already understood the notion of dedicating themselves to kids' athletic competition, and the industrial capital of Mexico because for the first time its people were experiencing a sensation of pride in fourteen of its…†   (source)
  • Then, suddenly, she sensed the inexorable logic that must reside behind the reasoning and the formulas, and that led her to the mathematics section of the university bookshop.†   (source)
  • And Annie was by now resigned to the notion that here history was inexorably repeating.†   (source)
  • Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance.†   (source)
  • His wavy blond hair had retreated, whilst his belly advanced inexorably against his doublet.†   (source)
  • That beat—steady, inhumanly steady; inexorable.†   (source)
  • Something far stronger than Max McDaniels had hold of Alex and was pulling him slowly, inexorably, back into the tomb.†   (source)
  • Somewhere deep in Rearden's mind, as a steady, gentle, inexorable beat, was a man's voice, saying: By what right?†   (source)
  • He stimulated the cadre's creative powers as they conjured up new and inexorable methods to assault the human spirit.†   (source)
  • In the older, quieter part of town, there are what seems a disproportionately high number of auto repair garages and beauty salons and churches and bars, all half-failed and dilapidating in their own fashion, and one's perception is that whatever uniqueness and charms Ebbington once had are being inexorably absorbed by larger, external presences both unknown and invited.†   (source)
  • Despite what I had seen, despite the destruction of all I had once taken for granted, despite the wounds I had sustained and my memory of men, far better than me, who were obliterated, I was overwhelmed with gratitude, inexorable, intoxicating gratitude.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, when the causes of the sedition inflame the resentments of the majority party, they might be obstinate and inexorable when policy demands clemency.†   (source)
  • With me!" and he moved forward the last yards toward the wall, drawn by the pluck of that great force from within, for home, for country, and now the ground went by slowly, inexorably, like a great slow river, and the moment went by black and slow, close to the wall, closer, walking now on the backs of dead men, troops around beginning to move, yelling at last the wild Rebel yell, and the blue troops began to break from the fence.†   (source)
  • ...growing louder, more persistent, more powerful, an inexorable sound.†   (source)
  • Awaken her to the inexorable.†   (source)
  • Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.†   (source)
  • He discovered he was inexorably squeezed between alimony and taxes.†   (source)
  • And only Karellen knew with what inexorable swiftness the Golden Age was rushing to its close.†   (source)
  • When the lights came on again, and she and Metzger lay twined amid a wall-to-wall scatter of clothing and spilled bourbon, the TV tube revealed the father, dog and Baby Igor trapped inside the darkening Justine, as the water level inexorably rose.†   (source)
  • All night long I had the sensation of helplessness, speechlessness, an inability to move or cry out against the inexorable weight of earth as it was flung in thud-thud-thuding rhythm against my rigidly paralyzed, supine body, a living cadaver being prepared for burial in the sands of Egypt.†   (source)
  • KATE [INEXORABLY]: Are you willing to put her away?†   (source)
  • It was their first experience with the inexorable logic of women, which is overwhelming even, or perhaps especially, when it is wrong.†   (source)
  • The guard was inexorable not because he was cruel, but discipline was very strict in those troubled times.†   (source)
  • I stare at them fascinated until the spokes begin to revolve backwards while the rim is inexorably borne forward.†   (source)
  • Miss Eckhart, for all her being so strict and inexorable, in spite of her walk, with no give whatsoever, had a timid spot in her soul.†   (source)
  • He snatched his hand back and a red drop spattered on the stage before him, to be followed by a slow, inexorable stream of gleaming crimson droplets.†   (source)
  • "Not now," he said inexorably.†   (source)
  • Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.   (source)
  • They came wave after wave in an inexorable attack.
  • The inexorable rhythm beat itself out.   (source)
    inexorable = unstoppable
  • But inexorably, every thirty seconds, the minute hand of the electric clock above his bed jumped forward with an almost imperceptible click.   (source)
    inexorably = in a manner that cannot be stopped
  • But inexorably the booming continued.   (source)
    inexorably = in a manner that is unstoppable
  • her husband was inexorably resolved to cut or wrench it away.   (source)
    inexorably = absolutely (in an unstoppable manner)
  • His own silver fingers were moving inexorably toward his own throat.†   (source)
  • The significance of my sister's words sank in slowly but inexorably.†   (source)
  • The demon barely seemed to notice; it only kept moving, inexorable as death.†   (source)
  • She could feel the inexorable beat within her body, controlling her heart, her lungs.†   (source)
  • But Valentine's voice droned on, inexorable, muffled but not inaudible.†   (source)
  • They drifted inexorably toward the bridge.†   (source)
  • With relentless, uncaring force, they turned inexorably toward the end—the end of everything.†   (source)
  • Outside, the sun was inexorably climbing toward the horizon.†   (source)
  • He's terrible, her mind answered inexorably.†   (source)
  • Small Paul's fingers tightened inexorably, and began to twist.†   (source)
  • Everything was streaked, blurred, and hidden behind the torrent's inexorable streamers.†   (source)
  • In the name of Tash the irresistible, the inexorable.†   (source)
  • Stannis was otherwise: hard, cold, inexorable.†   (source)
  • Their lives were inexorably intertwined.†   (source)
  • An inexorable force gathered inside of Glaedr's belly.†   (source)
  • I'll stay here with you— No. The Brothers spoke as a group, their voices inexorable.†   (source)
  • Gradually, inexorably, her prospects brightened.†   (source)
  • The armada's momentum is inexorable now, fated, a force of history.†   (source)
  • So I whispered, wading through drifts waist-high, inexorably on my way to Hrothgar's meadhall.†   (source)
  • The figure in the shadow moved inexorably toward us.†   (source)
  • May the strength of Tash the inexorable, the irresistible be in your sword and lance.†   (source)
  • Lady Lysa pressed her forward inexorably.†   (source)
  • I am descended from Tash, the inexorable, the irresistible.†   (source)
  • Even we, who were boys but a short while ago, cannot escape the inexorable progress of time.†   (source)
  • In the name of Tash the irresistible, the inexorable forward!†   (source)
  • Inexorably, it uttered the names of Kansas City, Wichita, and Topeka.†   (source)
  • As he plummeted toward earth, Robert Langdon felt something he had not experienced since his years on the high dive-the inexorable pull of gravity during a dead drop.†   (source)
  • She heard about him often, because in the world of business his cautious but inexorable advance in the R.C.C. was a constant topic of conversation.†   (source)
  • One of the less bullshitty conventions of the cancer kid genre is the Last Good Day convention, wherein the victim of cancer finds herself with some unexpected hours when it seems like the inexorable decline has suddenly plateaued, when the pain is for a moment bearable.†   (source)
  • …golden flow through her arteries, and out the open window, beyond the walls, the ocean crashes, only a bit of stacked stone left between her and it, the rim of Brittany, the farthest windowsill of France—and maybe the Germans are advancing as inexorably as lava, but Marie-Laure is slipping into something like a dream, or perhaps it's the memory of one: she's six or seven years old, newly blind, and her father is sitting in the chair beside her bed, whittling away at some tiny piece of…†   (source)
  • The lunch had been very encouraging, not only in and of itself but because it showed him how simple and well received that inexorable request was going to be.†   (source)
  • Meg gasped, trying to breathe at her own normal rate, but the inexorable beat within and without continued.†   (source)
  • Even worse: the spaces in her mind where she managed to appease her memories of the dead man were slowly but inexorably being taken over by the field of poppies where she had buried her memories of Florentino Ariza.†   (source)
  • As day inexorably followed day, Eragon had watched the men grow sullen and discontent, and Nasuada had become increasingly worried.†   (source)
  • But the Indian woman explained that the most fearsome part of the sickness of insomnia was not the impossibility of sleeping, for the body did not feel any fatigue at all, but its inexorable evolution toward a more critical manifestation: a loss of memory.†   (source)
  • My image of him now is of something huge, hard, inexorable, faceless and moving forward as if on tracks.†   (source)
  • The Queen's soft voice was inexorable.†   (source)
  • She continued inexorably.†   (source)
  • "Forty-five seconds to self-destruct," the voice said, and then he was angry because the voice was female, and seductive, and recorded, because someone had planned it this way, had written out a series of inexorable statements, like a script, which was now being followed by the computers, together with all the polished, perfect machinery of the laboratory.†   (source)
  • …already see the red maple I planted in the front yard the first days I lived in the house, a mere sapling that has widened and vaulted up to be much larger than it should be, its surprising increase mirroring, I suppose, everything else I've invested in the last thirty years—the values of the property itself, the blue-chip stocks I bought intermittently, the store and building I sold to the Hickeys, whatever I put time or money into ballooning inexorably, magically, to great reward.†   (source)
  • It would be very difficult for me to avenge all those who should be avenged, because my revenge would be just another part of the same inexorable rite.†   (source)
  • Allow another layer to settle unquestioned with the night between them, as if there were some inexorable geology at work?†   (source)
  • The vessel looked as Eragon knew it would, for he recognized it from his dreams, and a sense of inexorable fate settled upon him as he gazed at it.†   (source)
  • What you feel is what we dragons feel and what the elves feel-the inexorable march of grim fate as the end of our age approaches.†   (source)
  • It keeps on multiplying until areas of tissue all through the body are filled with crystalloids, which hatch, and more Ebola particles drift into the bloodstream, and the amplification continues inexorably until a droplet of the host's blood can contain a hundred million individual virus particles.†   (source)
  • I was still faking reality, and it had the inexorable result: instead of protection, it brought you a more terrible kind of ordeal, instead of saving your name, it forced you to offer yourself for a public stoning and to throw the stones by your own hand.†   (source)
  • Only time might help, time which surrendered all secrets but only on the inexorable condition, as far as he could tell, that the secret could no longer be used.†   (source)
  • Her hands broke free, her thighs inexorably loosened, their bellies ground cruelly together, and a curious, low whistle forced itself up through her throat, past her bared teeth.†   (source)
  • A stream of refugees trailed along the road to the north—people fleeing the soon-to-be-besieged city for Teirm or Uru'baen, where they might find at least temporary safety from the Varden's inexorable advance.†   (source)
  • There were many strange things taking place, but the strangest of all, to Clevinger, was the hatred, the brutal, uncloaked, inexorable hatred of the members of the Action Board, glazing their unforgiving expressions with a hard, vindictive surface, glowing in their narrowed eyes malignantly like inextinguishable coals.†   (source)
  • Eragon did not know the words but found himself mouthing them along with the elves, swept along by the inexorable cadence.†   (source)
  • They knocked in an even rhythm, every fourth knock accented-and it seemed to her that through the rapid, running clatter of some futile stampede to escape, the beat of the accented knocks was like the steps of an enemy moving toward some inexorable purpose.†   (source)
  • He came on, inexorable.†   (source)
  • They continued celebrating in a festive spirit and singing that the people united would never be defeated—even though each time they sang, it sounded more out of tune because divisiveness and hatred were inexorably growing.†   (source)
  • The nearest she could get was a feeling, as acute as it was irrational, that in some inexorable way it wasn't only Pilgrim's fate that was to be determined today by this stranger, it was the fate of all of them.†   (source)
  • I studied its adroit, inexorable images and translated the silent eloquence of its mythology and language so simply and unceasingly uttered in gold.†   (source)
  • Deliberate and inexorable, the tree's thoughts moved at a measured pace as slow as the creep of ice over granite.†   (source)
  • …from the effect of the towel and the toilet water than from his image, abruptly overwhelming, of Yves leaning back in the bathtub, whistling, the washrag in his hand, a peaceful, abstracted look on his face and his sex gleaming and bobbing in the soapy water like a limp, cylindrical fish; and from his memory, to which his image was somehow the gateway, of that moment, nearly fifteen years ago, when the blow had inexorably fallen and his shame and his battle and his exile had begun.†   (source)
  • It occurred to him that perhaps this was how shooting stars were made: a bird or a dragon or some other earthly creature snatched upward by the inexorable wind and thrown skyward with such speed, they flamed like siege arrows.†   (source)
  • A sense of torpor and resignation had entered the room and infected us spiritually with that species of painless despair which comes when you have accepted the inevitable and know how things inexorably must end.†   (source)
  • It was all the dwarves could do to keep the rafts from being tossed like flotsam before the inexorable current and to avoid smashing into the trees that occasionally floated by.†   (source)
  • He felt that he had stepped off a precipice into an air which held him inexorably up, as the salt sea holds the swimmer: and seemed to see, vastly and horribly down, into the bottom of his heart, that heart which contained all the possibilities that he could name and yet others that he could not name.†   (source)
  • Like an inexorable machine, the thumb and last three fingers curled into a fist, leaving the trunk of the index finger to point at the downed man with all the authority of fate itself.†   (source)
  • On the second note, another, lower drum melded with the first, each beat rolling inexorably through the hall.†   (source)
  • Roran yelled and jammed his heels against the sides of the window frame, struggling to free himself from the monstrosity, but the Ra'zac inexorably drew him out of the house.†   (source)
  • It came into his mind that a man must have a purpose--some single, undeviating, divinely inexorable purpose.†   (source)
  • The tide inched outward, slowly, imperceptibly, outward toward the sea, the eternal rendezvous, inexorably flowing with the tilt of the earth.†   (source)
  • We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current….†   (source)
  • I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.†   (source)
  • The cord and tassel of his brocade robe-for he had put it on-seemed to weigh upon his fragile walking like a chain, and yet it could have been by inexorable will that he wore it, so set were his little steps, in such duty he dragged it.†   (source)
  • So when he repeated his question, after her long evasive silence, during which she refused to look into his eyes, she was silenced by their inexorably different needs.†   (source)
  • At his car, Clumly had stood fiddling with his keys, heart racing in his chest, a belch forming, inexorable, and he'd wanted desperately to sneak back and spy and find out what they were saying.†   (source)
  • …and intransigent under its sharp, high gables and neatly louvered cupolas lifting up lightning rods like safeguards against sorcery (gleaming copper, with globes of blue glass, or bluish green, like hypnotists' globes of 1900)--but had neatly, skillfully patched up the barns his father had built; had perched on beams some forty feet up from the rocky barnyard, his stubby legs clamped around the time— and hay-polished wood, shoes interlocked, big jaw slung forward (Hodge the inexorable!†   (source)
  • I lived in the security of a town founded in the sixteenth century, but in the world beyond it walked John E Kennedy, the inexorable movement of black people coming up the road in search of the promised American grail, the television performances of Bull Connor, the snarling dogs, the fire hoses, the smoking names of Montgomery, Columbus, Monroe, and Birmingham.†   (source)
  • But she felt as if she were in a dark tunnel, nearing something final, something she could not visualize, but which waited for her inexorably, inescapably.†   (source)
  • Something about the land, or the York State land as it used to be--the near horizons lifting up their high-angled screens between folded valleys, the days full of clouds forever drifting, ominous and beckoning, sliding past green-gray summits and throwing their strange shapes over the tilted fields, sunny elms inexorably darkened by the march of shadow from the straight-edged slopes.†   (source)
  • It struck Goldstein's nose and bounced off; the voice continued inexorably.†   (source)
  • "Try a hot cake," said Mammy inexorably.†   (source)
  • He felt suddenly the futility of opposing an implacable, an inexorable desire.†   (source)
  • But as Poirot maintained an inexorable silence, he capitulated.†   (source)
  • It had fascinated me as a child of two-the inexorable diminishment-the sense of inevitability.†   (source)
  • We have no rigidities, no inexorable rules.†   (source)
  • Great wheels churn inexorably urging them downwards.†   (source)
  • It was a laugh, made of crystal and ice, bright and radiant, but cold and inexorable.†   (source)
  • The inexorable voice beat like a hand upon his back.†   (source)
  • Adjectives like EPOCH-MAKING, EPIC, HISTORIC, UNFORGETTABLE, TRIUMPHANT, AGE-OLD, INEVITABLE, INEXORABLE, VERITABLE, are used to dignify the sordid processes of international politics, while writing that aims at glorifying war usually takes on an archaic color, its characteristic words being: REALM, THRONE, CHARIOT, MAILED FIST, TRIDENT, SWORD, SHIELD, BUCKLER, BANNER, JACKBOOT, CLARION.†   (source)
  • He could feel them turning under his feet, though never a house changed place-backward to forward, side to side-a sly, inexorable carousel.†   (source)
  • Surely they'd have told me that in one case, anyhow, the wheels had stopped; that once, if only once, in that inexorable march of events, chance or luck had played a happy part.†   (source)
  • She was happy when she could act in behalf of this inexorability she was all the time warning us about.†   (source)
  • It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death.†   (source)
  • "It is all right," said the Wart again, disgusted by the fuss, but fate was bent on punishing him, and the old lady was inexorable.†   (source)
  • Her son, Mrs. Keating had decided, would assume his rightful place in the world, and she had clung to this as softly, as inexorably as a leech….†   (source)
  • She was firm and inexorable and would not release me from a single lesson, for it was decided that I was to attend the Fancy Dress Ball in her company.†   (source)
  • …now, a woman created of by and for darkness whom the artist Beardsley might have dressed, in a soft flowing gown designed not to infer bereavement or widowhood but to dress some interlude of slumbrous and fatal insatiation, of passionate and inexorable hunger of the flesh, walking beneath a lace parasol and followed by a bright gigantic negress carrying a silk cushion and leading by the hand the little boy whom Beardsley might not only have dressed but drawn—a thin delicate child with…†   (source)
  • One and all, Mammy dosed them, never waiting to ask foolish questions about the state of their organs and, one and all, they drank her doses meekly and with wry faces, remembering, perhaps, other stern black faces in far-off places and other inexorable black hands holding medicine spoons.†   (source)
  • The sad prophetic story, a brief and terrible summary of the waste, the tardiness, and the ruin of their lives, silenced them for a moment with its inexorable sense of tragedy.†   (source)
  • [Note: Example: "Comfort's catholicity of perception and image, strangely Whitmanesque in range, almost the exact opposite in aesthetic compulsion, continues to evoke that trembling atmospheric accumulative hinting at a cruel, an inexorably serene timelessness….†   (source)
  • …from Judith's bedroom or was sent from it, to sleep in the hall (where Clytie had likewise moved her pallet) though not on a pallet like her but on a cot, elevated still and perhaps not by Judith's decree either but by the negress' fierce inexorable spurious humility; and then in the attic, the cot moved there, the few garments (the rags of the silk and broadcloth in which he had arrived, the harsh jeans and homespun which the two women bought and made for him, he accepting them with…†   (source)
  • He pried her fist open inexorably and stared at it, picked up her other hand and held them both together silently, looking down at them.†   (source)
  • And Clytie sleeping in the hall below, barring the foot of the attic stairs, guarding his escape or exit as inexorably as a Spanish duenna, teaching him to chop wood and to work the garden and then to plow as his strength (his resiliency rather, since he would never be other than light in the bone and almost delicate) increased—the boy with his light bones and womanish hands struggling with what anonymous avatar of intractable Mule, whatever tragic and barren clown was his bound fellow…†   (source)
  • In the years that had followed Eliza's removal to Dixieland, by a slow inexorable chemistry of union and repellence, profound changes had occurred in the alignment of the Gants.†   (source)
  • Sherman inexorably advanced, step by step, swinging his army about them in a wide curve, forcing another retreat to defend the railroad at their back.†   (source)
  • Or like those motionpictures that describe the movements of a swimmer making a dive, or a horse taking a hedge—movement is petrified suddenly in mid-air, the inexorable completion of an act is arrested.†   (source)
  • He believed himself thus at the centre of life; he believed the mountains rimmed the heart of the world; he believed that from all the chaos of accident the inevitable event came at the inexorable moment to add to the sum of his life.†   (source)
  • …not for him or for herself, or even for the boy whom idiot chance had thrust in the way of pestilence, but that, with a sudden inner flaming of her clairvoyant Scotch soul, she had looked cleanly, without pretense for the first time, upon the inexorable tides of Necessity, and that she was sorry for all who had lived, were living, or would live, fanning with their prayers the useless altar flames, suppliant with their hopes to an unwitting spirit, casting the tiny rockets of their…†   (source)
  • Madeline protested, and Stillwell held inexorably to what he said was wisdom.†   (source)
  • The inexorable facts closed in on him like prison-warders handcuffing a convict.†   (source)
  • Why did they never resent my inexorable, my perpetual society?†   (source)
  • He was inexorable, and she sat still, and d'Urberville gave her the kiss of mastery.†   (source)
  • But custom to her was as inexorable as life.†   (source)
  • It was like Fate itself, and as inexorable.†   (source)
  • He wants that everything should be subject to inexorable laws.†   (source)
  • To Cole it seemed a giant hand, clutching, with inexorable strength, a bleeding heart.†   (source)
  • "Well, you've got to hear it," replied Helen, inexorably "I want you to know how he's stood by me."†   (source)
  • He was again able to endure Vergil Gunch's inexorable heartiness.†   (source)
  • But he was proud within himself, measuring people against himself, and placing them, inexorably.†   (source)
  • [inexorably] No, Violet: I mean to have this thing out, right away.†   (source)
  • As his religious mood was fanatical and inexorable, so would his physical hate be merciless.†   (source)
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