All 34 Uses of
constant
in
Bleak House
- And at her house in town, upon this muddy, murky afternoon, presents himself an oldfashioned old gentleman, attorney-at-law and eke solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, who has the honour of acting as legal adviser of the Dedlocks and has as many cast-iron boxes in his office with that name outside as if the present baronet were the coin of the conjuror's trick and were constantly being juggled through the whole set.†
Chpt 1-3
- But all the little children had come up to the landing outside to look at the phenomenon of Peepy lying on my bed, and our attention was distracted by the constant apparition of noses and fingers in situations of danger between the hinges of the doors.†
Chpt 4-6
- I am grieved that I should be the enemy—as I suppose I am —of a great number of relations and others, and that they should be my enemies—as I suppose they are—and that we should all be ruining one another without knowing how or why and be in constant doubt and discord all our lives.†
Chpt 4-6
- And thus, through years and years, and lives and lives, everything goes on, constantly beginning over and over again, and nothing ever ends.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- They seemed to our poor wits, and according to their own accounts, to be constantly polling people by tens of thousands, yet never bringing their candidates in for anything.†
Chpt 7-9
- …composure of face when silent, a figure that might have become corpulent but for his being so continually in earnest that he gave it no rest, and a chin that might have subsided into a double chin but for the vehement emphasis in which it was constantly required to assist; but he was such a true gentleman in his manner, so chivalrously polite, his face was lighted by a smile of so much sweetness and tenderness, and it seemed so plain that he had nothing to hide, but showed himself…†
Chpt 7-9
- Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green's son "was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody," which son of Mrs. Green's appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.†
Chpt 10-12
- I felt all through the performance that he never looked at the actors but constantly looked at me, and always with a carefully prepared expression of the deepest misery and the profoundest dejection.†
Chpt 13-15
- At once to exhibit his deportment to the best models and to keep the best models constantly before himself, he had found it necessary to frequent all public places of fashionable and lounging resort, to be seen at Brighton and elsewhere at fashionable times, and to lead an idle life in the very best clothes.†
Chpt 13-15
- CHAPTER XV Bell Yard While we were in London Mr. Jarndyce was constantly beset by the crowd of excitable ladies and gentlemen whose proceedings had so much astonished us.†
Chpt 13-15
- It is a source of much gratification to Mr. Guppy, therefore, to find the new-comer constantly poring over the papers in Jarndyce and Jarndyce, for he well knows that nothing but confusion and failure can come of that.†
Chpt 19-21
- Then, amid a constant coming in, and going out, and running about, and a clatter of crockery, and a rumbling up and down of the machine which brings the nice cuts from the kitchen, and a shrill crying for more nice cuts down the speaking-pipe, and a shrill reckoning of the cost of nice cuts that have been disposed of, and a general flush and steam of hot joints, cut and uncut, and a considerably heated atmosphere in which the soiled knives and tablecloths seem to break out…†
Chpt 19-21
- At that time, and for a good many weeks after that time, Richard was constant in his visits.†
Chpt 22-24
- We walked a little way without speaking, and presently Richard addressed me in his frankest and most feeling manner, thus: "My dear Esther, I understand you, and I wish to heaven I were a more constant sort of fellow.†
Chpt 22-24
- I don't mean constant to Ada, for I love her dearly—better and better every day—but constant to myself.†
Chpt 22-24
- I don't mean constant to Ada, for I love her dearly—better and better every day—but constant to myself.†
Chpt 22-24
- If I were a more constant sort of fellow, I should have held on either to Badger or to Kenge and Carboy like grim death, and should have begun to be steady and systematic by this time, and shouldn't be in debt, and—"†
Chpt 22-24
- Besides, I find it unsettles me more and more to be so constantly upon the scene of action.†
Chpt 22-24
- While they were thus employed, my guardian, though he underwent considerable inconvenience from the state of the wind and rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place, was as genial with Ada and me as at any other time, but maintained a steady reserve on these matters.†
Chpt 22-24
- And henceforth he begins, go where he will, to be attended by another shadow than his own, hardly less constant than his own, hardly less quiet than his own.†
Chpt 25-27
- I said I should have thought it hardly possible that he could have been otherwise than constant to his profession and zealous in the pursuit of it, judging from the reputation he had earned.†
Chpt 28-30
- If the spirit of a sainted wooman hovers above us and looks down on the occasion, that, and your constant affection, will be my recompense.†
Chpt 28-30
- "For I am constantly being taken in these nets," said Mr. Skimpole, looking beamingly at us over a glass of wine-and-water, "and am constantly being bailed out—like a boat.†
Chpt 37-39
- "For I am constantly being taken in these nets," said Mr. Skimpole, looking beamingly at us over a glass of wine-and-water, "and am constantly being bailed out—like a boat.†
Chpt 37-39
- On these national occasions dancing may be a patriotic service, and Volumnia is constantly seen hopping about for the good of an ungrateful and unpensioning country.†
Chpt 40-42
- I really had some thoughts of breaking my heart for the inconstant creature.†
Chpt 40-42
- He keeps me on a constant see-saw.†
Chpt 46-48
- Constant dropping will wear away a stone, and constant coaching will wear out a Dame Durden.†
Chpt 49-51
- Constant dropping will wear away a stone, and constant coaching will wear out a Dame Durden.†
Chpt 49-51
- A gentleman who has devoted a large portion of his life to me, a gentleman who has devoted the last day of his life to me, a gentleman who has constantly sat at my table and slept under my roof, goes from my house to his own, and is struck down within an hour of his leaving my house.†
Chpt 52-54
- "My Lady, I came away last night from Chesney Wold to find my son in my old age, and the step upon the Ghost's Walk was so constant and so solemn that I never heard the like in all these years.†
Chpt 55-57
- My dear, next to myself he is the most constant suitor in court.†
Chpt 58-60
- Then may be seen Sir Leicester—invalided, bent, and almost blind, but of worthy presence yet—riding with a stalwart man beside him, constant to his bridle-rein.†
Chpt 66-67
- He is constant in his patronage of Peepy and is understood to have bequeathed him a favourite French clock in his dressing-room—which is not his property.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(constant) unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly