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  • He knew she read incessantly--Shakespeare, Henry James, Dickens, Thomas Hardy--but he did not think this could fill her days.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • Allie woke early the next morning, forced by the incessant chirping of starlings,   (source)
    incessant = continuous (and often annoying)
  • Silently, Granger arose, felt his arms, and legs, swearing, swearing incessantly under his breath, tears dripping from his face.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • I'm continually being scolded for my incessant chatter when I'm upstairs.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • His incessant, never-ending questions.   (source)
  • He listened to the constant parade of sounds outside, footsteps, bicycle bells, the incessant squawking of crows and of the horns of cycle rickshaws in the lane so narrow that taxis could not fit.   (source)
  • I was always telling her what to do, as if our birth order was a mistake that I was incessantly trying to correct.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • There's incessant muttering and...   (source)
    incessant = continuous (and often annoying)
  • I kicked and wiggled and struggled to get free from the incessant beating, but they held me tight and I could not throw them off.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • On the night before I was to leave for Indianapolis, Quentin spent the night at my house, not letting me sleep, drilling me incessantly on the details of the trigonometry, calculus, physics, chemistry, and differential equations we used for our rocket designs.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • The comments are so incessant and always so well-intentioned.   (source)
    incessant = continuous (never-ending)
  • the young man was an incessant conceiver of voyages, not a few of which he had actually taken:   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • In the days after Simon had first become a vampire, when he had thought he would never see daylight again, he'd found himself thinking incessantly about the sun and the sky.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • his wife had fallen into a deep depression and complained incessantly   (source)
  • She talked incessantly and pointed out places of interest.   (source)
  • What he did encounter was incessant teasing at the hands of other students as tales of Kettlemouth's song flooded the campus.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • Mahtob's tender skin was covered with huge blotches from the incessant plague of mosquito bites.   (source)
    incessant = continuous (and annoying)
  • The girl ... who practiced her radio voice incessantly—was not my friend.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • John travels incessantly:   (source)
  • Jorge complains incessantly about him, finding faults where there are none.   (source)
  • The Arabs were attacking Jewish settlements ... and were incessantly harassing supply convoys.   (source)
  • Tayo talked to the corporal almost incessantly, walking behind him with his end of the blanket stretcher, telling him that it wasn't much farther now, and all down hill from there.   (source)
  • Usually she had to know everything; Mr. Rhodes, Dean, and Misty often called her Curious George and joked about her incessant why why why.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • ...the old monk explains to him what will happen if the prayer is said incessantly.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • Wallace smoked incessantly...   (source)
  • this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was nevertheless always there, was always at all times the same and yet new in every moment!   (source)
  • An incessant buzzing of helicopters filled the twilight.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • Tom talked incessantly,   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • according to Japanese custom, when a person falls sick and goes to a hospital, one or more members of his family go and live there with him, to cook for him, bathe, massage, and read to him, and to offer incessant familial sympathy, without which a Japanese patient would be miserable indeed.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • Rambert talked incessantly, as if his nerves were out of hand.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • Reporters incessantly badgered him for interviews.   (source)
  • he was angry at Eddie Swanson for the incessant family bickering.   (source)
    incessant = continuously/annoyingly
  • He heard the click of tusks as they crossed other tusks by accident, and the dry rustle of trunks twined together, and the chafing of enormous sides and shoulders in the crowd, and the incessant flick and hissh of the great tails.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • When he was sitting, or standing still, he swayed back and forth incessantly, like a rocking toy.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • He spoke unconcernedly, but his small light eyes glanced incessantly from the girl to me.   (source)
  • It's the incessant contact with the gentlemen of the court has that influence on me.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • A beautiful starlit night had followed on the day of incessant rain:   (source)
  • the others were running, in an incessant stream, as it seemed, from behind me, and away through the wood in front.   (source)
    incessant = continuous/annoying
  • They chatted incessantly:   (source)
    incessantly = continuously/annoyingly
  • He noticed the incessant rumble of passing carriages, to which he had never before I wanted to see her, because, having incessantly sought to form a mental picture of her, I was unable, in the end, to do so, and did not know exactly to what my love corresponded.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • Some seven hours' incessant, hard travelling brought us early in the morning to the end of a range of mountains.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • The pain in his side oppressed him and seemed to grow worse and more incessant   (source)
  • His restless eyes were in incessant motion behind his full-sized spectacles.   (source)
  • ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures   (source)
  • you incessantly stand on your head   (source)
    incessantly = continuously/annoyingly
  • I have hinted that I would often jerk poor Queequeg from between the whale and the ship—where he would occasionally fall, from the incessant rolling and swaying of both.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • Incessant rain battered down above us,   (source)
  • Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.   (source)
  • she looked sorrowful and weary--weary of incessant strife.   (source)
  • the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes   (source)
  • I was also distracted by the incessant click of his skeletal index finger as he tapped his Flap button.†   (source)
  • Louie was drained, both from the combat and the incessant quivering of the plane.†   (source)
  • But the incessant close labour demanded of these children caused them to go blind by the age of eight or nine, and their blindness was the measure by which the carpet-sellers valued and extolled their merchandise: This carpet blinded ten children, they would say.†   (source)
  • To strengthen my decision to add an American name, I had just finished fifth grade in Whittier, where all the kids incessantly called me "Ferocious."†   (source)
  • The film was entertaining in its way, he conceded, but what was one to make of Rosotsky's incessant return to the era of princes and princesses?†   (source)
  • "Dear Papa," he dictated, incessantly turning the music box around in his hands.†   (source)
  • Always there is the muted rattling of her father's tools inside his rucksack and the distant and incessant honking of automobile horns.†   (source)
  • Instead, he busied himself with the "miscellaneous" end of things, which is to say he played Psycho Dice incessantly and allowed Minerva to become a lurking presence around Mercer House.†   (source)
  • Then there was a bulky man in a chauffeur's uniform, who stood outside the group, and smoked incessantly.†   (source)
  • After months of incessant pleas from Six and me, Karen finally conceded and allowed me to enroll for my senior year.†   (source)
  • The pounding was distant and muffled, but incessant.†   (source)
  • Instead it showed an unglamorous face of dull complexity and incessant wrangling.†   (source)
  • That whole morning Ammu talked incessantly.†   (source)
  • A ticking begins, an incessant, dangerous ticking.†   (source)
  • Chlorotic, with a sunken chest, he smoked incessantly, wore cheap shirts that had grayed in the wash, drank endless cups of sugary tea.†   (source)
  • Despite the tremendous energies involved, the spacecraft was capable of placing a brief, coded squirt into the incessant babble of FTL bursts which tied the human portions of the galaxy together.†   (source)
  • There were dogs that howled incessantly, dug incessantly, fought incessantly, humped incessantly, and bit incessantly.†   (source)
  • And the way she held the harp between her legs made me think of ...well, the things that every boy of fifteen thinks about incessantly.†   (source)
  • One male visitor, who had lost both his legs and made his way around the fair on false limbs and crutches, must have looked particularly knowledgeable, because another visitor peppered him incessantly with questions, until finally the amputee complained that the strain of answering so many questions was wearing him out.†   (source)
  • Every State fan carried a cowbell, and rang it incessantly, as they hurled insults at the Ole Miss players.†   (source)
  • I had imagined this moment over and over, incessantly, for the last nine years.†   (source)
  • I could spend the whole day horseback riding, sleep anywhere, and eat anything I felt like without having to worry about my bladder, my liver, or any of the other organs people talk about incessantly.†   (source)
  • Euclides was about twelve years old, and he was fast and clever and an incessant talker, with an eel's body that could slither through a bull's-eye.†   (source)
  • Regrettably she shared many of Gottfried's vices; she was lazy and partied incessantly.†   (source)
  • Roran worked incessantly, nailing fence slats between houses, piling barrels full of rocks for makeshift walls, and dragging logs across the main road, which they blocked with two wagons tipped on their sides.†   (source)
  • She and Bram torment each other incessantly.†   (source)
  • I was so afraid that our lives would fall apart again that I tried to ignore the things that frightened me most: our da's continued love affair with drink, which a change in country did not change; Mam's black moods and rages; the incessant fighting between them.†   (source)
  • Throughout the day on May 11, his friends and teammates incessantly begged him to make an effort to come down under his own power.†   (source)
  • The landlord's wife did not actually shout, but one could hear her talking incessantly both late into the night as she and her husband went about their tasks, and again from very early this morning.†   (source)
  • We listened to the incessant clicking of shutter release buttons, the rustling crank of levers that advanced the film.†   (source)
  • They were buried beneath the impossible language of the time, lived underground where nearly all of the time's true feeling spitefully and incessantly fermented.†   (source)
  • I awoke happy that there was no school, but that incessant murmur on the tin roof immediately dampened the euphoria.†   (source)
  • WINTER IN AMERICA was a trial British soldiers could never get used to, any more than they could adjust to the incessant clamor of frogs on spring nights or American mosquitoes or the absence of decent beer.†   (source)
  • I remarked on his sleepless nights, his hundred-hour weeks, his incessant travel, as he hobbled along.†   (source)
  • He was hounded incessantly by an impression of vital duties left unfulfilled and waited in vain for his responsibilities to overtake him.†   (source)
  • Group date, which didn't go well, as the object of my affection, Nathan Hobbs, only had eyes for the incessantly giggly and already well-developed Missy Dover.†   (source)
  • The incessant hammering and sawing that had been going on outside for months, as the prison built a death chamber to accommodate Shay's sentence, had fallen silent.†   (source)
  • "Cease the incessant chatter!" he barks, raking a hand through his thinning white hair.†   (source)
  • She hummed it incessantly after Paige's "accident."†   (source)
  • Beneath us, cars edged along bumper to bumper, honking incessantly.†   (source)
  • There was no sound close by, but behind and below them, from the water meadow on the nearer bank of the Test, came faintly the shrill, incessant fussing of a pair of sandpipers.†   (source)
  • Ehe streets teem with people, and the cries of the peddlers are incessant.†   (source)
  • They talk incessantly about the things they do, and I don't know how to do the things they do.†   (source)
  • The idea of going around the country being congratulated for his presence in a photograph, following a month of witnessing death and incessant killing, simply did not connect with his rural, tribal, almost nineteenth-century frame of reference.†   (source)
  • His words fall upon my ears like the incessant caws of a crow.†   (source)
  • People are incessant talkers—I can give you my word on that.†   (source)
  • Intermittent whistles of fishing boats clashed with the incessant screeching of the gulls; together they formed the universal sounds of the waterfront.†   (source)
  • But Bethany had a hard time empathizing with her mother's incessant talk of being deserted by her man, particularly when she replaced him with other men, which she had no difficulty doing.†   (source)
  • Through the blue dome of lightning Jessica spotted a few darklings hovering in the distance, their eyes radiant indigo in the glare of the incessant flashes.†   (source)
  • The Telephone Wakes Me It has rung incessantly, but not enough, it seems, to wake Mom and Daddy, who partied well into the wee hours of morning.†   (source)
  • IN FEBRUARY of 1912, plague ships called at Naples overnight with the wounded, the sick, and the dying, and an incessant gray rain fell on Rome.†   (source)
  • Babies crying, parents wailing out their grief, the PA incessantly paging doctors.†   (source)
  • To man, time is given like a piece of land, as it were, entrusted to him for faithful tilling; a space in which to strive incessantly, achieve self-realization, move onward and upward.†   (source)
  • And all of this took place against a background of hunger, of an incessant obsession with food, food, food.†   (source)
  • He'd be pressured to publish incessantly to get tenure.†   (source)
  • The lightning is flashing incessantly outside the window, taunting me every time it lights up the sky.†   (source)
  • Our talk back then was in fact one long and grave contention, an incessant quarrel, though to hear it now would be to recognize the usual forms of homely rancor and still homelier devotion, involving all the dire subjects of adolescencemy imperfect studies, my unworthy friends, the driving of his car, smoking and drinking, the whatever and whatever.†   (source)
  • It rained so hard, so long and so incessantly that the thought of a period of no rain provoked a mild wonder.†   (source)
  • John Osborne was nervous and irritable though still efficient; he talked incessantly of his Ferrari.†   (source)
  • A trip to Salinas sixty miles to the north at the head of the valley was event enough for a year, and the incessant work on the ranch, the care and feeding and clothing of his bountiful family, took most of his time—but not all.†   (source)
  • Leslie would allow me for the first time in my life to taste in a calm, exploratory way those varieties of bodily experience which until now had existed in my head like a vast and orgiastic, incessantly thumbed encyclopedia of lust.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the man was a comfort, his very existence satisfying in a world that incessantly demanded fine distinctions between things not worth a man's thinking about: a world of jokes to be puzzled out and laughed at in the right places (how many times, in how many grim rooms had Millie thrown back her head and white throat, and laughed while Hodge sat chuckling fierce and baffled, heavy as iron in his chair!)†   (source)
  • She had never liked Africans and had come back raging about thieving and boastful politicians, the incessant lies and hate on the radio and in the newspapers, the bag-snatchings in daylight, the nightly violence.†   (source)
  • The rattle which had once delighted her sounded incessantly now, beating a complex, ever-changing rhythm in her cot.†   (source)
  • A shrill incessant pedagogue about its own salvation-but nothing to say of your place in the State!†   (source)
  • Laughing and talking incessantly, she kept taking the handkerchief out and unthinkingly putting it back inside her sash or her sleeve.†   (source)
  • He joked incessantly, mimicked his teachers and classmates, and took infinite pleasure in teasing Gene Norris during class.†   (source)
  • Across the table his incessant cigarette smoke came out of his nostrils in a double spout.†   (source)
  • Outside in the bush the cicadas shrilled incessantly, and her head ached; her limbs were heavy and tense.†   (source)
  • life is an incessant struggle for existence   (source)
  • It was this fixed idea which returned incessantly, which tortured him, which ate into his brain,   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • engaging the housekeeper in incessant conversation   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • The footsteps were incessant, and the hurry of them became more and more rapid.   (source)
    incessant = continuous (never stopping)
  • The whole district north of the Vindhias is the theatre of incessant murders and pillage.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • It was only by incessant labour and personal supervision that Ethan drew a meagre living from his land   (source)
  • The ship was talking, as sailors say, loudly, treading the innumerable ripples with an incessant weltering splash   (source)
    incessant = continuous/annoying
  • While she and Alexandra patched and pieced and quilted, she talked incessantly about stories she read in a Swedish family paper,   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water playing in the sodden beds.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • the necessity for incessant watchfulness and for a prompt attention to any evidence of his movements.   (source)
  • When she moved about there was an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down upon her arms.   (source)
  • Blinded by the glare of the headlights and confused by the incessant groaning of the horns, the apparition stood swaying for a moment before he perceived the man in the duster.   (source)
  • I spent my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.   (source)
  • At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.   (source)
    incessantly = continuously
  • I couldn't sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams.   (source)
  • His eyes would drop slowly from the swinging light to the laden table by the wall, and then jerk back to the light again, and he gave out incessantly his high, horrible call: "Oh, my Ga-od!"   (source)
  • His eyes leaked continuously with excitement, and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat.   (source)
  • I became aware now of a hollow, wailing sound which issued incessantly from the garage, a sound which as we got out of the coupe and walked toward the door resolved itself into the words "Oh, my God!" uttered over and over in a gasping moan.   (source)
  • Through all these rapid visions, there ran an undefined, uneasy consciousness of pain, which wearied and tormented him incessantly.   (source)
  • And now, for the last two days, the rains on this lower course of the river had been incessant, so that the old men had shaken their heads and talked of sixty years ago, when the same sort of weather, happening about the equinox, brought on the great floods, which swept the bridge away, and reduced the town to great misery.   (source)
    incessant = continuous
  • His steadiness, his freedom from all dissipation, his incessant industry (except when he chose to throw himself into a standing revery behind his screen), his great, stillness, his unalterableness of demeanor under all circumstances, made him a valuable acquisition.   (source)
  • And his jaw twitched impatiently from the incessant gnawing toothache, that prevented him from even speaking with a natural expression.   (source)
  • In Tokyo, the sirens sang so incessantly that the POWs began sleeping through them.†   (source)
  • They trained incessantly and practiced landing maneuvers at Hawke Bay, where the tides were bad.†   (source)
  • Moans, weeping, incessant chattering, screaming, all very faint.†   (source)
  • He could still hear the incessant sound of lapping water.†   (source)
  • My flash burns were minor but incessantly painful.†   (source)
  • After three days he had tired of their incessant pleading, nagging, and knocking on the wall.†   (source)
  • Such "incessant dinners and dissipations" were not the objects of his mission to France.†   (source)
  • But meanwhile, I won't have my evening disturbed by the incessant interruption of a cell.†   (source)
  • Small flames flared incessantly here and there and they moved through shifting layers of smoke.†   (source)
  • Baba Hajji was now demanding that I join in the incessant daily prayer rituals.†   (source)
  • We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information.†   (source)
  • The rain was hammering against the walls and roof; the old inn creaked under the incessant pressure.†   (source)
  • As though reciting a rosary, Dick incessantly whispered: "Is it good, baby?†   (source)
  • Someone who can teach him how to pray incessantly, and why.†   (source)
  • He reached out and grabbed the incessantly ringing instrument, pulling it to his ear.†   (source)
  • A pot of food stewed incessantly on the stove for the convenience of anyone who was hungry.†   (source)
  • November 10-12 Two days of incessant walking, mostly looking for jobs.†   (source)
  • Thorough all this, he talked incessantly.†   (source)
  • Peter talked incessantly during the entire trip.†   (source)
  • The baby began crying at about two in the morning, and it cried almost incessantly till dawn.†   (source)
  • She hates seeing people at their worst, the sickly smell, the squeaky gurneys, the hallways with their drab paintings, the incessant paging overhead.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to talk to Jake," I said halfheartedly, already resigned to the Colonel's incessant planning."†   (source)
  • The silence of the desert was a distant dream; the travelers in the caravan were talking incessantly, laughing and shouting, as if they had emerged from the spiritual world and found themselves once again in the world of people.†   (source)
  • "Constant companion" meant "suffers separation anxiety," and "good watchdog" translated to "incessant barker."†   (source)
  • The gentle roll of the windwagon combined with the incessant rumble of the great wheel appeared to have already put the child to sleep.†   (source)
  • The riot of flowers is incessant.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the incessant rain did not affect her, and she thought too late that perhaps Paris was not as gloomy as it had seemed, that Santa Fe did not have so many funerals passing along the streets.†   (source)
  • The lich and I faced off one final time, at the very top of the playing field, both of us incessantly hitting our Flap buttons while slamming our joysticks left and right.†   (source)
  • During those first few days after the discovery of his identity and the lives they led, he and his father talked incessantly, the terrible silence finally broken.†   (source)
  • I hadn't done drugs in months but for whatever reason, an evening nodding and unconscious in my bedroom at Hobie's had begun to seem like a perfectly reasonable response to the holiday lights, the holiday crowds, the incessant Christmas bells with their morbid funeral note, Kitsey's candy-pink notebook from Kate's Paperie with tabs reading MY BRIDESMAIDS MY GUESTS MY SEATING MY FLOWERS MY VENDORS MY CHECKLIST MY CATERING.†   (source)
  • Miss Sue not only tutored him, and got him reading and adding fractions, she mothered him incessantly.†   (source)
  • He buys the newspapers every day to scan the lists of released prisoners, and listens incessantly to one of three radios.†   (source)
  • The incessant rain tickled his cheeks and mixed with the blood from his mouth, dripping red by the time it hit the ground.†   (source)
  • Most of the passengers, above all the Europeans, abandoned the pestilential stench of their cabins and spent the night walking the decks, brushing away all sorts of predatory creatures with the same towel they used to dry their incessant perspiration, and at dawn they were exhausted and swollen with bites.†   (source)
  • People employed by Gregarious Games during this period say that Halliday frequently locked himself in his office, where he programmed incessantly, often going without food, sleep, or human contact for days or even weeks.†   (source)
  • Carl Heine listened to the fog and to the sea, to the other boats moving off the bank with their whistles sounding incessantly and to the water softly lapping against his boat as he drifted with the tide, moving east.†   (source)
  • With my hands I checked the knots and lashings incessantly, trying to read them the way a blind man would read Braille.†   (source)
  • Near me is a family of eight-indigenie plantation workers returning from a biannual shopping expedition of their own to Keats-and although I do not mind the sound or scent of their caged pigs or the squeal of their food hamsters, the incessant, confused crowing of their poor befuddled rooster is more than I can stand some nights.†   (source)
  • People gambled and golfed and planted gardens and traded stocks and had sex and bought new cars and practiced yoga and worked and prayed and redecorated their homes and got worked up over the news and fussed over their children and gossiped about their neighbors and pored over restaurant reviews and founded charitable organizations and supported political candidates and attended the U.S. Open and dined and travelled and distracted themselves with all kinds of gadgets and devices, flooding themselves incessantly with information and texts and communication and entertainment from every direction to try to make themselves forget it: where we were, what we were.†   (source)
  • lndigenies breeding like...like humans, I suppose...eyeless cripples, lungs burned out with air rot, squiring a nest of a dozen offspring, the children's skin scabrous by age five-standard, their eyes watering incessantly from the sting of an atmosphere which will kill them before they're forty, their smiles carious, their oily hair rife with lice and the blood bags of dracula ticks.†   (source)
  • Most of the passengers, above all the Europeans, abandoned the pestilential stench of their cabins and spent the night walking the decks, brushing away all sorts of predatory creatures with the same towel they used to dry their incessant perspiration, and at dawn they were exhausted and swollen with bites.†   (source)
  • I worried incessantly about them.†   (source)
  • People nowadays talked incessantly about the glories of youth, but Adrienne had no desire to be young again.†   (source)
  • He never understood people who chattered on incessantly, or even face's love of overcomplicated wordplay.†   (source)
  • He was screaming incessantly.†   (source)
  • Because they talked incessantly about the kids before the accident, because they discussed what was happening in their friends' lives, he always tried to talk about them when he visited her.†   (source)
  • He paced in his stall incessantly.†   (source)
  • Most everyone in the house began to dance, the music having changed from rock songs to the incessant beat of disco music, which was immensely popular at the time.†   (source)
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