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  • Henry limped down into the clubroom, dragging his crippled left leg, the perpetual grin spread across his skinny face.   (source)
    perpetual = occurring so frequently it seems continual (always there)
  • The effect would be much the same if the three super-states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries.   (source)
    perpetual = continuing forever without change
  • — but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.   (source)
    perpetual = continual
  • He never had enough, and suffered from perpetual hunger pangs.   (source)
    perpetual = continual (always there)
  • Our lives were a cycle—the cycle of the day, the cycle of the seasons—circles of perpetual change that, when complete, meant nothing had changed at all.†   (source)
  • It's the story of one of those perpetual survivors—an expert at being left behind.†   (source)
  • Upstairs was my bedroom, Baba's room, and his study, also known as "the smoking room," which perpetually smelled of tobacco and cinnamon.†   (source)
  • I was looking pretty dead—my hands and feet ballooned; my skin cracked; my lips were perpetually blue.†   (source)
  • Big hazel eyes, rounded cheekbones, a pointy chin, and a perpetual smirk.†   (source)
  • He's not sure of his name—everyone just calls him "the Mouth Breather," since his nose is perpetually stuffed.†   (source)
  • The train carried him to a perpetual dust storm known as Ephrata, Washington, where there was an air base in the middle of a dry lakebed.†   (source)
  • It's very rugged, and it's in an area of ocean where the combinations of wind and current make it almost perpetually covered in fog.†   (source)
  • In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me.†   (source)
  • She was tall and bony, and wore a perpetually severe expression.†   (source)
  • Light seeped around the edges of the mow door, filling the space with a dilute, perpetual dawn.†   (source)
  • They had four children, all of whom were envied by the entire Iranian population for leading perfect lives, lives which included French-speaking nannies, skiing lessons, fancy clothes, and the assumption of perpetual happiness.†   (source)
  • The flag-bearer kept on changing, but the flag waved ceaselessly, like a perpetual pendulum, counting down the remainder of her short life.†   (source)
  • He listened to Johnny Cash on perpetual repeat and drove an old El Camino—a car truck— everywhere he went.†   (source)
  • It was only when he was playing with his friends that he changed back into the lively little boy with perpetually skinned knees.†   (source)
  • Perpetual bags hung under her eyes.†   (source)
  • To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.†   (source)
  • Perpetual what?†   (source)
  • But she never seemed bitter, only perpetually annoyed.†   (source)
  • I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.†   (source)
  • All true followers of The Way wore this device—a leather strap, studded with sharp metal barbs that cut into the flesh as a perpetual reminder of Christ's suffering.†   (source)
  • The old Roman's hair was pale in the moonlight, and he wore the toga in which he had been buried, with, beneath it, a thick woolen vest and leggings because this was a cold country at the edge of the world, and the only place colder was Caledonia to the North, where the men were more animal than human and covered in orange fur, and were too savage even to be conquered by the Romans, so would soon be walled off in their perpetual winter.†   (source)
  • A layer of smoke hovers perpetually over the water's edge.†   (source)
  • Perpetual care means just what it says.†   (source)
  • Her caught-in-headlights eyes gave her a look of perpetual astonishment, so that we found ourselves turning and looking back over our shoulders, wondering what we were missing.†   (source)
  • It was as if the constance of their lives here, the unvarying days—this perpetual deathless summer—had arrested their emotions as well as their bodies, sealing them in their youth like Peter Pan and his Lost Boys.†   (source)
  • All of that would be, so soon, replaced by a new and glorious openness, a world of perpetual light.†   (source)
  • He wears a perpetual, almost devilish smile.†   (source)
  • San Piedro lived and breathed by the salmon, and the cryptic places where they ran at night were the subject of perpetual conversation.†   (source)
  • Morrison the mailman, we had no doubt, had never watched a game; and poor Mrs. Merrill—despite how fondly the baseball season must have reminded her of the perpetual weather of her native California—was never a fan, either.†   (source)
  • Once the pump is working, they'll fertilize two hundred acres automatically, organically, and perpetually.†   (source)
  • But inside it's perpetual twilight.†   (source)
  • His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children.†   (source)
  • They made his eyes perpetually bloodshot, and many people, my father among them, believed he had taken to drink.†   (source)
  • The system would be self-sustaining and perpetual, and would serve everybody right.†   (source)
  • Kai bristled at the sight of the Lunar Queen, her head and shoulders draped in an ornate cream-colored veil, like a perpetual bride.†   (source)
  • Not so much rest in peace, Harry Potter, more rest in perpetual despair.†   (source)
  • In the last moments of his dying coma he was locked in a stasis field which keeps him in a state of perpetual unchangingness.†   (source)
  • She hated the drafty floors and frigid corners, and the perpetual animal reek of heavy clothes hung about the fireplace to dry.†   (source)
  • His call for "perpetual revolution" mobilized young people into Red Guards who would wage class war against remnants of traditional society, both native and foreign.†   (source)
  • And yet —well — it seemed a plain message, how Welty had sent you here, and then there you were, like a little insect, coming back and coming back —" He thought a moment, brow furrowed, a deeper version of his perpetual worried expression—"I'll tell you what I'm trying a bit clumsily to say, after my mother died I'd walk and walk, that awful dragging summer.†   (source)
  • She's known to be exceedingly pushy, egotistical, cunning, calculating and perpetually dissatisfied.†   (source)
  • Besides migrants, the camp has ten perpetual residents.†   (source)
  • Rand and Marybeth feared that I might take Amy's marriage as some jab at my perpetually single state.†   (source)
  • I wanted nothing more than to be alone with my perpetual savior.†   (source)
  • Adam asked, absentmindedly taking my hand into his and blowing on it, which is what he did to warm my perpetually cold fingers.†   (source)
  • It can rekindle, and my father, forgetful around the house and perpetually exhausted from night hours on call, often emptied what he thought were ashes from cold stoves into wooden or cardboard containers.†   (source)
  • Since the beginning of time, these two forces have been in a perpetual battle to destroy one another.†   (source)
  • The only discernible sights are the bombs, continually falling, large displays of fire of all colors that sweep through the night sky and the perpetual explosions that follow.†   (source)
  • Rather, he had them, but they were in a perpetual state of regrowing from being burned off in the course of his alchemical pursuits.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be there, to know this perpetual dreaming, this din ofexquisite screams — to have this mother comfort surging through me.†   (source)
  • I live in a state of perpetual satisfaction as my normal state of existence," she said, quite pleased.†   (source)
  • On his new low-hulk diet of petite meals, he was perpetually ravenous and was begging and thieving food more shamelessly than ever.†   (source)
  • Evidently an Englishman released from perpetual rain and fog is nearly unstoppable.†   (source)
  • I laid down one long road of a sentence in my remembery: "For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever."†   (source)
  • In his treatise Perpetual Peace, he wrote that all countries should unite in a league of the nations, which would assure peaceful coexistence between nations.†   (source)
  • Tante Bep, with her perpetual, disapproving scowl, was the oldest of the aunts and the one we children liked least.†   (source)
  • She had never quite lost her baby fat, and even though she was on a perpetual diet she just couldn't shed those last ten pounds.†   (source)
  • I grew up with a knot in the pit of my stomach, a perpetual state of worry over when my father would come after me.†   (source)
  • She looked the part of the sacrificial goat, the constant butt, believer in left-handed monkey wrenches, perpetual foul-up, and she was.†   (source)
  • He stood there speaking in prai se of their lives and asking one last favor from God—"To let perpetual light shine upon them..."†   (source)
  • He built a wind-powered mechanism that generated noise to scare birds from the family fields and set out to create a perpetual motion machine.†   (source)
  • After the war he'd been given a kind of freedom for his services, the right to perform back-breaking work under perpetual suspicion.†   (source)
  • He was perpetually exhausted and bleary, and a little cranky, particularly when dinner wasn't ready.†   (source)
  • He had forgotten his perpetual anger for just a little while.†   (source)
  • It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital.†   (source)
  • Only the vigilance and care of Rebeca kept him from being dragged off by his imagination into a state of perpetual delirium from which he would not recover.†   (source)
  • As we were on the bus that Saturday afternoon heading into the stadium, Jim Tartt, our junior offensive lineman, reached over and grabbed my perpetually buzzing phone.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Mrs. Livingston feels like Yetta, with her perpetual yearning.†   (source)
  • They capped the number at thirty a week later, and moved on to filling the next wooden structure along the camp's perpetually soggy and trampled main trail.†   (source)
  • I think of her cold eyes and perpetual scowl, her unwillingness to see me as anything more than a pair of hands, fingers holding a needle and thread.†   (source)
  • Not only was it beyond dark outside, the perpetual mist had turned into an oppressive drizzle.†   (source)
  • Out on the desert, she knew, it already was red nightfall, but here in the cavern hall was perpetual twilight, a gray vastness thronged with people come to see her risk her life.†   (source)
  • Doreen came from a society girls' college down South and had bright white hair standing out in a cotton candy fluff round her head and blue eyes like transparent agate marbles, hard and polished and just about indestructible, and a mouth set in a sort of perpetual sneer.†   (source)
  • Nari and Lifaen were perpetually smiling, laughing, and singing songs, especially when Saphira was around.†   (source)
  • To think she used to resent having the face and skin of a perpetual teenager.†   (source)
  • The psychologist Walter Mischel argues that the human mind has a kind of "reducing valve" that "creates and maintains the perception of continuity even in the face of perpetual observed changes in actual behavior."†   (source)
  • I had never taken a hot bath, and my childhood memories were of cold, of loneliness, and of a perpetually empty stomach.†   (source)
  • However you disguise it, this thing does not change: the perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.†   (source)
  • In the past few years, it just seemed easier to not get to know women too well, to keep them in the realm of perpetual strangers, when they could still project hope and potential on him.†   (source)
  • It was as though the cathedral demanded, and received, a perpetual, living sacrifice.†   (source)
  • You are perpetually talking of my 'great inexperience', Mr Stevens, and yet you appear quite unable to point out any defect in my work.†   (source)
  • Seeing my perpetually perky friend looking so solemn made me uneasy.†   (source)
  • The cells had been constructed hurriedly, and the walls were perpetually damp.†   (source)
  • There was jostling and shouting and noise, and I relished it after the perpetual smothered quiet of the prison.†   (source)
  • Seconds, minutes, hours, days, a segue of perpetual motion.†   (source)
  • Short and stout, her hair bundled in a scarf, waving greetings to one person while bantering in rapid-fire English with another, Sakena is perpetually in motion.†   (source)
  • The enormous room was hidden away from the circadian lights, in a state of perpetual twilight.†   (source)
  • She was reserved and her eyebrows were perpetually arched, as if she suspected every word he uttered.†   (source)
  • "Is that bad?" asked the perpetually worried Humbug.†   (source)
  • The woman is probably in her late twenties, but her glasses and perpetual stern expression make her look way older.†   (source)
  • It's perpetual tense.†   (source)
  • To his perpetual shame, he and Almaz had been intimate twice over the years, both times when he was drunk.†   (source)
  • It was smaller than the Kidwell's, and, moreover, he shared it with a wife, three active children, and a perpetually functioning television set.†   (source)
  • More cheering from the girls, one of whom-a buxom redhead with broad shoulders I recognized from the perpetual lines for the ladies' room-moved closer to the stage, so that she was practically at Dexter's feet.†   (source)
  • Even her perpetual runny nose seems to have cleared.†   (source)
  • Heavy hair in a bun, dark eyes arched in a perpetual query about other people's manners.†   (source)
  • P.J., thin-faced and sad-eyed, who had hardly uttered a word (someone else had volunteered his initialed identification), and Tommy who wore horn-rimmed glasses that seemed permanently smudged and probably contributed to his perpetual squint.†   (source)
  • He eases into a favorite desk near the window and Clarence begins puttering around, as always, in perpetual motion.†   (source)
  • I had rehearsed what I would say so many times that I had been sure I would not forget my little speech, but confronted with Mr. Grumbloch's perpetual frown and sharp blue eyes, I could only conjure up three words: "I'm not Valerie."†   (source)
  • His friends perpetually cause misunderstandings by mixing up his lovers and calling them by the same name.†   (source)
  • Surrounded by famous people and powerful people, men in the administration who were running the war, and I want to paint it over, paint the photograph orange and blue and burgundy and paint the tuxedos and long dresses and paint the grand ballroom of the Plaza Hotel and maybe this is what I'm doing, I don't know, it's a work in perpetual progress.†   (source)
  • One of them looked like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, all watery blue eyes, bad posture, and Adam's apple, and she seemed irritated by her situation; the other was like a young novice in a convent, with shorn hair and a perpetually surprised expression; then there was Alice, about five feet tall with the thickest Coke-bottle glasses I had seen in a long time.†   (source)
  • The woman was a study in perpetual motion.†   (source)
  • She was singularly unattractive until she smiled, and then the lines around her eyes and mouth which made her look perpetually dirty disappeared, and her face looked like the mask of an impish elf.†   (source)
  • He envisioned the Demon's white face, the smooth hair that framed it like black silk ...the jesting, merry eyes that seemed perpetually amused.†   (source)
  • Septa Moelle had stiff white hair and small mean eyes perpetually crinkled in suspicion, peering out of a wrinkled face as sharp as the blade of an axe.†   (source)
  • I do know that there was talk once of dressing him up in a giant pair of blue jeans, because people in the neighboring city of Homewood were sick and tired of being perpetually mooned by a mythical Greek deity.†   (source)
  • For him, the reward was inward clarity, and the price perpetual anger or, at best, discomfort with the world, not always on the surface but always there.†   (source)
  • Let perpetual light shine on them.†   (source)
  • ...Is it their intention, by thus perpetually sounding independence in the ears of the Americans, to lead them to it ?†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka rose without a word and moved his chair outside the tent, his back bowed by the compact kit of injustices that was his perpetual burden.†   (source)
  • There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing; it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth.†   (source)
  • Begun in 1958 by a newly independent Pakistan anxious to forge a transportation link with China, its ally against India, and in a perpetual state of construction ever since, the KKH is one of the most daunting engineering projects humans have ever attempted.†   (source)
  • With his buoyant personality and perpetual grin, he was a balm for his mother's sadness.†   (source)
  • While I know that to some people—Shari, for instance—a man who is perpetually hard would be a godsend, for me it is merely inconvenient.†   (source)
  • The one with the perpetually open garage.†   (source)
  • The ultimate evil is that Time is perpetual perishing, and being actual involves elimination.†   (source)
  • Marie, however, remained near the wide front window, keeping a perpetual eye on the entrance of the bank across rue Madeleine.†   (source)
  • I patted his hand, perpetually morphed out into a heavy, hairy, Eraser-clawed mitt.†   (source)
  • And they tell me my eyes were a hawk In perpetual hunger.†   (source)
  • As the smoke rose, it was swept down-canyon by a perpetual breeze, and most of it dissipated before it rose high enough to be seen from any distance.†   (source)
  • I consider myself a perpetual student.†   (source)
  • By refusing to know, they condemn themselves to the horror of a perpetual unknown.†   (source)
  • Lasaraleen wanted to go back on the whole arrangement and kept on telling Aravis that Narnia was a country of perpetual snow and ice inhabited by demons and sorcerers, and she was mad to think of going there.†   (source)
  • Kelvin's Cairn wasn't a high mountain, but the top third was perpetually covered with deep snow and brutally exposed to the icy wind that gave this land its name.†   (source)
  • The jailer, Stanton Pendelton, a state militia officer who insisted on being called "Colonel Pendelton," was a perpetually grumpy man with a limp that seemed to grow more pronounced with stormy weather or his own personal level of aggravation.†   (source)
  • Megahit songs like "California Dreamin' " ("I'd be safe and warm / If I was in LA / California dreamin' / On such a winter's day") lodged in a generation's collective memory, nourishing a national intuition that California was a paradise of perpetual summer and a laid-back attitude toward life.†   (source)
  • I had to be all worked up, but when I was young I was like a perpetual lightning storm.†   (source)
  • The sea was a perpetually laboring machine with no purpose but the continuation of its own existence, romanticized and cherished by countless poets but incapable of knowing human passion, pain, and promise.†   (source)
  • It would be misery, perpetual lack of confidence, and insecurity; there'd be the prospect of a lifetime's guarding against slips — and we knew well enough already that occasional slips were inevitable.†   (source)
  • He was very thin and perpetually astonished and somewhat gap-toothed, and his manner of talking alone was enough to convulse them, and he enjoyed it.†   (source)
  • She cried so much she was perpetually hoarse.†   (source)
  • Standing armies and perpetual taxes would crush liberty.†   (source)
  • Her left eyebrow was slightly higher than her right, giving the impression that she was perpetually interested, or maybe perpetually perplexed.†   (source)
  • Merrick was skinny and ungainly, with the Whitshanks' definite jaw that looked better on the men than on the women, and that summer she was wearing her hair in a dramatic new style, flaring out on the left side but pressed flat to her skull on the right, so that it looked as if she were perpetually being buffeted by a strong wind.†   (source)
  • I'm in a perpetual state of trying.†   (source)
  • Centre was such a wonderful thing—stern, benevolent, impersonal, perpetual.†   (source)
  • He told us we were sentencing ourselves to a life of perpetual mourning, a life where we'd feel like you were dying every single day over and over again.†   (source)
  • For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?†   (source)
  • So you would be violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics, getting something for nothing, causing perpetual motion.†   (source)
  • The committal was brief, and when Mark had said the last words, "Rest eternal grant unto her, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon her," each man of the tribe helped fill the grave with a spade of earth while the women sang in Kwakwala the first hymns the tribe had been taught sixty-five years before.†   (source)
  • I forgot my own being, abandoned my limited range of senses as I swam in a sea that was neither dark nor light, formed nor formless, yet knowing my way, subsumed, as it were, within a perpetual act of that thing we had decided to call ludus that was creation, destruction, and sustenance, patterned and infinitely repatterned, scattered and joined, mounting and descending, divorced from all temporal phenomena yet containing the essence of time.†   (source)
  • The children were perpetually begging me for cigarettes for the prisoners.†   (source)
  • It was as though, as a result of some disturbance in the heavens, the early morning light was always receding into the darkness, and men lived in a perpetual dawn.†   (source)
  • It is perpetual shame to me that I have nothing to offer my parents.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • And his grandfather had allowed the Henrys to tap the main pipe, so the Henrys had a perpetual flow of free water, although it was hard with dissolved minerals and Randy hated to taste it out of the sprinkler heads in grove and garden, even on a hot summer day.†   (source)
  • The mugga-wood, to the Aboriginals, is the tree of sorrow, symbol of the broken heart; for its appearance is sad and drooping, and its flowers are perpetually wet with a crimson fluid, seeping out like blood.†   (source)
  • "A certain spring," Mr. Jerger went on, "whose water gave perpetual youth to those who drank it.†   (source)
  • With satisfaction, as if this was a perpetual battle of wits with his elder son.†   (source)
  • (Goes to him, solemnly and affectionately places hands on his shoulders, gazing into his eyes) Ah, Sir Thomas, in a better state this threadbare stuff will metamorphose into shining garments, these dank walls to walls of pearl, this cold light to perpetual sunshine†   (source)
  • / hear you whispering there O stars of heaven, O stm — O grass of graves — O perpetual transfers and promotions, If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?†   (source)
  • Death rate, sickness rate, the earnings of the staff, the degree of their political consciousness and of their participation in the elections, the perpetual shortage of fuel, food, medicines, everything had to be checked and reported.†   (source)
  • As a result, all day long in school I sat perpetually alert, fearing for the untoward to happen.†   (source)
  • His wide mouth seemed perpetually on the verge of laughter, but at the moment he wore an expression of sad disappointment.†   (source)
  • She thought it would be pleasant to live peacefully for a change; she had not realized how exhausted she was, after those years of living geared to a perpetual demand for the next thing.†   (source)
  • A machine capable of perpetual motion without input of outside energy is impossible according to the laws of thermodynamics.
  • Its owner was a Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains.   (source)
    perpetually = frequently (seemingly all the time)
  • The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering — a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons — a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the ...perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting —   (source)
    perpetually = continuing forever without change
  • They put it about that the animals on the Manor Farm (they insisted on calling it the Manor Farm; they would not tolerate the name 'Animal Farm') were perpetually fighting among themselves and were also rapidly starving to death.   (source)
    perpetually = continually
  • Billee's one fault was his excessive good nature, while Joe was the very opposite, sour and introspective, with a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye.   (source)
    perpetual = continual or frequent
  • About his body there was a peculiar springiness, or resiliency, almost catlike, and a quick alertness as of one who lived in perpetual fear of things seen and unseen.   (source)
    perpetual = continual (always present)
  • On each calendar, it is perpetually February of 1986.†   (source)
  • She was horrible—totally self-centered and perpetually annoying.†   (source)
  • You have to imagine the way it looks to the powerful, the greedy ....the perpetually thirsty.†   (source)
  • They walked in high heels, and quickly, as if on perpetually urgent business.†   (source)
  • The traveling would fit with one of the Whitman quotes: 'I tramp a perpetual journey.†   (source)
  • I looked at Valerie in awe, appreciating for the first time her perpetual marble calm.†   (source)
  • They just keep right on talking about perpetual motion.†   (source)
  • For several months now, the perpetual severe scowl had cleared from her brow.†   (source)
  • There was just me, a mangy cat, a bench full of bullet holes and Mother Mary, perpetually smiling.†   (source)
  • I liked my mom, but her perpetual nearness sometimes made me feel weirdly nervous.†   (source)
  • His left eye is stuck in a perpetual squint.†   (source)
  • So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.†   (source)
  • Christ's lineage was in perpetual danger.†   (source)
  • Crazier than having Amma perpetually angry at me.†   (source)
  • Glick decided it must be perpetual Christmas inside Vatican City.†   (source)
  • She was exhausted and sad and seemed perpetually near fainting.†   (source)
  • The innkeeper was a dark-haired man with a perpetual scowl.†   (source)
  • Mr. Morton had a perpetual hangover, which was at its peak during homeroom.†   (source)
  • The printed pages of Bengali type, slightly rough to the touch, are a perpetual comfort to her.†   (source)
  • Seasickness felled Marion and left Rick perpetually queasy.†   (source)
  • I was perpetually assigned the job of watching out for little brother.†   (source)
  • "I'll do it," Gogol says, getting up, irritated by his parents' perpetual fear of disaster.†   (source)
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