All 6 Uses of
constant
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.†
Chpt 1-3
- Gabriel had almost constantly preceded her in this tour every evening, watching her affairs as carefully as any specially appointed officer of surveillance could have done; but this tender devotion was to a great extent unknown to his mistress, and as much as was known was somewhat thanklessly received.†
Chpt 22-24
- For it may be argued with great plausibility that reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and that expectation in its only comfortable form—that of absolute faith—is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.†
Chpt 25-27
- Men are such constant fools!†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Moreover, it was not at all unlikely that his wife would fail at her farming, if she had not already done so; and he would then become liable for her maintenance: and what a life such a future of poverty with her would be, the spectre of Fanny constantly between them, harrowing his temper and embittering her words!†
Chpt 49-51
- He was uneasy on Boldwood's account, for he saw anew that this constant passion of the farmer made him not the man he once had been.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(constant) unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly