All 3 Uses of
perpetual
in
Main Street
- There is no porter, no pillows, no provision for beds, but all today and all tonight they will ride in this long steel box-farmers with perpetually tired wives and children who seem all to be of the same age; workmen going to new jobs; traveling salesmen with derbies and freshly shined shoes.†
Chpt 3
- She asserted, "This silly lobby is too florid," and simultaneously she admired it: the onyx columns with gilt capitals, the crown-embroidered velvet curtains at the restaurant door, the silk-roped alcove where pretty girls perpetually waited for mysterious men, the two-pound boxes of candy and the variety of magazines at the news-stand.†
Chpt 17
- She wanted to be a nun and observe perpetual adoration.†
Chpt 21 *
Definition:
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(perpetual) continuing forever without change
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual