All 5 Uses of
constant
in
Dubliners
- It may have been these constant showers of snuff which gave his ancient priestly garments their green faded look for the red handkerchief, blackened, as it always was, with the snuff-stains of a week, with which he tried to brush away the fallen grains, was quite inefficacious.†
Chpt 1
- She trembled as she heard again her mother's voice saying constantly with foolish insistence: "Derevaun Seraun!†
Chpt 4
- A yachting cap was shoved far back from his forehead and the narrative to which he listened made constant waves of expression break forth over his face from the corners of his nose and eyes and mouth.†
Chpt 6 *
- The belfry of George's Church sent out constant peals and worshippers, singly or in groups, traversed the little circus before the church, revealing their purpose by their self-contained demeanour no less than by the little volumes in their gloved hands.†
Chpt 7
- He walked up and down constantly, stood by the hour at street corners arguing the point and made notes; but in the end it was Mrs. Kearney who arranged everything.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(constant) unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly