All 7 Uses of
constant
in
Hard Times
- One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.†
Chpt 1.4
- Whatever they could prove (which is usually anything you like), they proved there, in an army constantly strengthening by the arrival of new recruits.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- It's impossible,' said Mrs. Gradgrind, with a mingled sense of politeness and injury, 'to be constantly addressing him and never giving him a name.†
Chpt 1.15
- 'I am sure we are constantly hearing, ma'am, till it becomes quite nauseous, concerning their wives and families,' said Bitzer.†
Chpt 2.1
- It was even the worse for her at this pass, that in her mind — implanted there before her eminently practical father began to form it — a struggling disposition to believe in a wider and nobler humanity than she had ever heard of, constantly strove with doubts and resentments.†
Chpt 2.7
- What she has done for him demands his constant love and gratitude, not his illhumour and caprice.†
Chpt 2.7
- Mrs. Sparsit, from her place at the backgammon board, was constantly straining her eyes to pierce the shadows without.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(constant) unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly