Both Uses of
perpetual
in
Childhood's End
- His operations cost as much as a small war: indeed, he could be likened to a general conducting a perpetual campaign against an enemy who never relaxed.†
Chpt 12 *
- There was not a breath of wind, and even the perpetual muttering beyond the reef had sunk to a sullen undertone.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
-
(perpetual) continuing forever without change
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual