All 5 Uses of
perpetual
in
The War of the Worlds
- A great bank of dust, white and luminous in the blaze of the sun, made everything within twenty feet of the ground grey and indistinct and was perpetually renewed by the hurrying feet of a dense crowd of horses and of men and women on foot, and by the wheels of vehicles of every description.†
Chpt 1.16
- I grew very weary and irritable with the curate's perpetual ejaculations; I tired of the sight of his selfish despair.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- It was a sobbing alternation of two notes, "Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla," keeping on perpetually.†
Chpt 2.8
- That perpetual sound of "Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla," confused my mind.†
Chpt 2.8
- The one had died, even as it had been crying to its companions; perhaps it was the last to die, and its voice had gone on perpetually until the force of its machinery was exhausted.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(perpetual) continuing forever without change
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual