All 3 Uses of
continuous
in
The House of Mirth
- Grace Stepney was an obscure cousin, of adaptable manners and vicarious interests, who "ran in" to sit with Mrs. Peniston when Lily dined out too continuously; who played bezique, picked up dropped stitches, read out the deaths from the Times, and sincerely admired the purple satin drawing-room curtains, the Dying Gladiator in the window, and the seven-by-five painting of Niagara which represented the one artistic excess of Mr. Peniston's temperate career.†
Chpt 1.9
- The Silverton affair is in the acute stage: it's necessary that George's attention should be pretty continuously distracted.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Mattie Gormer HAS got aspirations still; women always have; but she's awfully easy-going, and Sam won't be bothered, and they both like to be the most important people in sight, so they've started a sort of continuous performance of their own, a kind of social Coney Island, where everybody is welcome who can make noise enough and doesn't put on airs.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(continuous) continuing in time or space without interruption or irregularity