All 7 Uses of
perpetual
in
Bleak House
- It should be strewn with roses; it should lie through bowers, where there was no spring, autumn, nor winter, but perpetual summer.†
Chpt 4-6
- He is always in extremes, perpetually in the superlative degree.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Who have found out the perpetual stoppage.†
Chpt 10-12
- I cannot imagine a countenance and manner more singularly expressive of caution and indecision, and a perpetual impulse to do something he could not resolve to venture on, than Mr. Krook's was that day.†
Chpt 13-15
- The four old faces then hover over teacups like a company of ghastly cherubim, Mrs. Smallweed perpetually twitching her head and chattering at the trivets and Mr. Smallweed requiring to be repeatedly shaken up like a large black draught.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mrs. Snagsby is so perpetually on the alert that the house becomes ghostly with creaking boards and rustling garments.†
Chpt 25-27
- Caddy Jellyby passed her very last holidays with us and was a dearer creature than ever, perpetually dancing in and out of the house with the children as if she had never given a dancing-lesson in her life.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(perpetual) continuing forever without change
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual