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  • Her keening was so loud and continuous that Fish worried the neighbors were going to think he was harming her and call the police.†   (source)
  • Instead of allowing large pools of water to gather, he began continuously sucking the captured water into his mouth, then spitting it in the cans.†   (source)
  • Plants grew, moved, twisted, and turned, fighting for the sun; and they interacted continuously with animals—discouraging some with bark and thorns; poisoning others; and feeding still others to advance their own reproduction, to spread their pollen and seeds.†   (source)
  • Perhaps not this early, but he had topped the standings almost continuously for three years, no one else was remotely close to him, and his evening practices had become the most prestigious group in the school.†   (source)
  • The rest of us were continuously being shooed out by Big Ma.†   (source)
  • Outside, a night wind was blowing and through the high window of his room the rustle of the apple tree and the maple made a continuous surf.†   (source)
  • She took the orange and began to peel it slowly in one continuous motion.†   (source)
  • Even with the sensitivity of the Planck satellite, continuous observation for a million years might not detect any such shift.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the most stalwart workers in the urban centers were wearying under the burden of the continuous workweek; artists faced tighter constraints on what they could or could not imagine; churches were shuttered, repurposed, or razed; and when revolutionary hero Sergei Kirov was assassinated, the nation was purged of an array of politically unreliable elements.†   (source)
  • Before I enlisted, I had never run a mile continuously.†   (source)
  • The phone had been ringing continuously for three minutes.†   (source)
  • To be continuously outside, exposed to sun, wind, rain and sea, was exhausting, and not only to the body but also to the mind.†   (source)
  • The State called Dr. Seger, who persuaded the jury that there was nothing mentally wrong with George, even as he continuously spit in a cup and made loud clucking noises throughout the trial.†   (source)
  • Continuously transmits its location to a Global Positioning System satellite that DCPJ can monitor.†   (source)
  • His emotions were scattered: appreciation for Minho standing up to everybody on his behalf, disbelief at Gally's continuous belligerence, fear of what the final decision would be.†   (source)
  • But if I can pull it off, I'll be making water continuously, with no need to store hydrogen or oxygen.†   (source)
  • You deal with these elements on a continuous basis in your specialty of gunshot-residue analysis, do you not?†   (source)
  • Now the lightning flashed so often that the sky stayed lit for several long seconds at a time and the thunder came in a continuous roar.†   (source)
  • The guard around him was circling continuously like giant birds of prey.†   (source)
  • He saw his wife before she'd married him, he saw her picking at Ichikawas' farm, how he'd come toward her carrying his caddy and as if by accident, by happenstance, how she hadn't seen him coming, intent on her work, bent to it, but at the last minute lifted her gaze, lissome as ever, continuously picking—berries lay gently like red gems between her fingers—and while she met his eyes fed one of her woven pine baskets, three of which already lay full on the caddy, mounded over with ripened fruit.†   (source)
  • The shocking truth is that I cannot even continuously jog eight blocks south (which was the first segment of the run).†   (source)
  • Its shape seemed to change continuously, balloon-like and bulbous one moment, as if inflating itself, confident and growing, then the next it would be shrinking, spinning, stretching and reaching, unsure of its true form.†   (source)
  • Rose, Daddy, Ty, Jess, Caroline, Pete, Pammy, and Linda, so thoroughly and continuously in me, were too present for letters or phone calls.†   (source)
  • Must I continuously be forced to lie all the time?†   (source)
  • Even if my father's identity and his story were painful to my mother—even if their relationship had been so sordid that any revelation of it would shed a continuous, unfavorable light upon both my parents—wasn't my mother being selfish not to tell me anything about my father?†   (source)
  • Over and over, though our experience of it is continuous.†   (source)
  • Mr. Patch-Withers' face had been shifting expressions and changing colors continuously, and now it settled into fixed surprise.†   (source)
  • The metal gong beat continuously now and the flute, shrill and powerful, floated on the chaos.†   (source)
  • In the morning the matchmaker was supposed to show the result, a little piece of black ash, and then declare, "This candle burned continuously at both ends without going out.†   (source)
  • He snatched a bottle off the shelf, wrung off the cap, and turned up the bottle, all in one continuous motion.†   (source)
  • There was no stitching, no seam, and yet she knew that behind the smooth continuous fabric was the real self—was it her soul?†   (source)
  • Not only was it really hard, but it was continuous—every single day offered options to give up and give in.†   (source)
  • The other leaves were a cabbage splice — giant cabbage trees, continuous producers, very productive.†   (source)
  • I read from The Federalist Papers to prepare for a quiz I had the next day in government, but my mind kept returning to its continuous loop: Guthrie and Whitman and New York and Margo.†   (source)
  • His legs straightened, the screams became continuous and foaming.†   (source)
  • The news continuously switched between the festival in the city center to the occasional shot of Kai during his preparations.†   (source)
  • Nor that poor paralyzed Kuttappen, numb with apprehension, had been talking to his father continuously for two hours, trying to calm him down, all the time straining his ears for the sound of a footstep or the rustle of undergrowth so that he could shout a warning to his unsuspecting brother.†   (source)
  • From the trees my unit answers, opening up a barrage of continuous fire, and the rounds slam and pop into the reinforced hull of the Black Hawk, and I'm shouting at the top of my lungs, "Go, go, go!"†   (source)
  • And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him, There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam.†   (source)
  • HATHORNE: Excellency, I wonder if it be wise to let Mr. Parris so continuously with the prisoners.†   (source)
  • First, they're glad they don't have to listen to my continuous chatter, and second, I don't have to get annoyed by their opinions.†   (source)
  • The worst part—the part I've never forgotten—was its panicked roaring: a horrible, continuous, enraged bellow that sounded somehow human.†   (source)
  • BRISK WINDS, bitter cold, and continuous snow showers are followed by blue skies and fifty-degree temperatures.†   (source)
  • He talked to it continuously.†   (source)
  • Its bloody light burned down on the Chessboard Desert through a cloud-clotted sky, toxic vapors burping continuously out of the factory engaged in manufacturing Redd's war machines.†   (source)
  • I spent about 75 cents in an all-night movie house, which featured continuous showings of three or four movies.†   (source)
  • Talloi continuously tapped his foot on the floor, as if trying to distract himself from thinking about the present.†   (source)
  • Looking around at the egg-shaped room with its carpet of dark grass, translucent walls, and support ribs of continuous, curved weirwood, the Consul realized that he must be in one of the smaller environment pods.†   (source)
  • A hospital technician came to our home and inserted a catheter into Jenny's thigh; this she attached to a small battery-powered pump that strapped to Jenny's leg and delivered a continuous trickle of labor-inhibiting drugs into her bloodstream.†   (source)
  • The way they were all packed together, they seemed to share one continuous facade—which once again gave me the terrible feeling of being lost.†   (source)
  • For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy — a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts.†   (source)
  • Immediately after the brown-paper plan received approval, Burnham requested authority to build "at once cheap wooden quarters in Jackson Park for myself and force," quarters in which he would live almost continuously for the next three years.†   (source)
  • A wide red plank of dirt—the so-called road—flat-out in front of us, continuous in theory from here to somewhere distant.†   (source)
  • As THE MILITANTS secured the city, extinguishing the last large salients of resistance, a partial calm descended, broken by the activities of drones and aircraft that bombed from the heavens, these networked machines for the most part invisible, and by the public and private executions that now took place almost continuously, bodies hanging from streetlamps and billboards like a form of festive seasonal decoration.†   (source)
  • She coughed continuously as we went about our chores.†   (source)
  • It's five and a half days of continuous beat-down designed to see if you have the endurance and the will to become the ultimate warrior.†   (source)
  • You've heard the saying about a drop of water wearing away a stone—not by brute force, but by continuous dripping.†   (source)
  • The Geys were determined to grow the first immortal human cells: a continuously dividing line of cells all descended from one original sample, cells that would constantly replenish themselves and never die.†   (source)
  • The chorus had no need of singing; in one breath in the fire, which was continuous, it made its soundless song.†   (source)
  • The noise in the engine spaces rose noticeably as the systems began to put out more power, and the technicians kept track of this by continuously monitoring the banks of instruments under their hands.†   (source)
  • As the wheels roll, the feet plant themselves one at a time, almost glomming into one continuous tire.†   (source)
  • He did not want her to notice the bins full of yellowed towels waiting to be washed on Monday, the graffiti on the walls, the loose tiles, and the rusty pipes that dripped continuously.†   (source)
  • Unlike basketball, baseball, or football, games that reset after each play, soccer unfolds fluidly and continuously.†   (source)
  • She wept almost continuously for the next three days.†   (source)
  • Each domain is handled by the fewest capable of doing so, and responsibility for the domains is continuous over time rather than intermittently assigned by circumstance.†   (source)
  • Waves rolled up on the shore, a soothing, continuous roar.†   (source)
  • My heart was pounding, my lungs burned, and in my side there was a continuous stabbing pain.†   (source)
  • However, the combination of our effort during that game and the continuously improving football culture at Nease High School helped me gain even more interest from colleges, which began to take note of me in larger numbers.†   (source)
  • Feeling her way along through the empty bedrooms she perceived the continuous rumble of the termites as they carved the wood, the snipping of the moths in the clothes closets, and the devastating noise of the enormous red ants that had prospered during the deluge and were undermining the foundations of the house.†   (source)
  • LASGUN: continuous-wave laser projector.†   (source)
  • "But once there's conception, it's all continuous; there's no way to draw the line," Sally says.†   (source)
  • She took the Island Explorer, the free bus that makes a continuous loop of the island, and got off at the closest stop to Vivian's, about a ten-minute walk.†   (source)
  • Later, the Captain stopped all the hand digging and brought in giant machines, called continuous miners, to tear the coal from its seams.†   (source)
  • He waits until we're a few blocks from my hotel, until I've sucked down two cigarettes in one continuous inhale and popped another anxiety pill.†   (source)
  • For the truth was, it was extremely refreshing to be out in the summerhouse after many continuous days in the main building and neither of us was inclined to hurry with our tasks.†   (source)
  • A squirrel moved along a limb in a flowing motion, a passage so continuous it seemed to be its own physical law, different from the ones we've learned to trust.†   (source)
  • Countless arteries stretch to the ends of its elusive body, circulating a continuous supply of fresh blood cells, sending out new data and collecting the old, sending out new consumables and collecting the old, sending out new contradictions and collecting the old.†   (source)
  • Tom and Mike Cappelli claimed that the St. Hubert restaurant was a money-loser, though it had operated continuously at the same location for seventeen years.†   (source)
  • It was one, long, continuous cry.†   (source)
  • The mist is, is not, is a mist—a smoky curtain continuously rising.†   (source)
  • The city was at once dead and yet in continuous motion, like a blanket of maggots animating a rotting corpse.†   (source)
  • After a week of continuous rain Brewster Place was now bathed in a deluge of sunlight.†   (source)
  • ...In Frisco I was continuously in trouble.†   (source)
  • 'Merry Christmas,' I said, and it was this closeness I tried to concentrate on'not that it might be fleeting, a feeling I knew too well'as he leaned down and put his lips to mine, kissing me, as around the corner the party went on without us, noisy and continuous and completely unaware.†   (source)
  • People with problems or grievances or arguments came from all over the land to seek advice, and even the two brothers, who by this time were fighting continuously, often called upon them to help decide matters of state.†   (source)
  • His mother's continuous apprehension-and attacks, like that night, of genuine panic-left Cedric certain there was danger everywhere.†   (source)
  • Pea Eye walked around in a pair of all-enveloping long johns which he had worn continuously for the last several years.†   (source)
  • He was getting to know well the odd jail-bleach the cotton mill puts on country cheeks, the curious, dulled, yet resentful expression of the eyes, begotten by continuous repetition of excessive hours of trivial, monotonous toil.†   (source)
  • Actually, it's because we're supposed to be reminded of Nyx's capacity to love, and the wings symbolize our continuous movement forward?'†   (source)
  • The thunder did not follow in successive peals, but in one "continuous crash."†   (source)
  • Weary, in his nearly continuous delirium, told again and again of the Three Musketeers, acknowledged that he was dying, gave many messages to be delivered to his family in Pittsburgh.†   (source)
  • A continuous grumble came out of their mouths; their backs were humped.†   (source)
  • He was a short-legged, wide-shouldered, smiling young soul who whistled bouncy show tunes continuously and turned over cards with sharp snaps when he dealt at blackjack or poker until Hungry Joe disintegrated into quaking despair finally beneath their cumulative impact and began ranting at him to stop snapping the cards.†   (source)
  • And, as the days slipped by, I was slow to believe in anything except the young mother's grief, which she reminded us continuously about, every time a television flickered on.†   (source)
  • The plane had to be light, so no matter how tired she felt, she dared not rest her spirit on a wing but continuously and gently pushed up on the plane's belly.†   (source)
  • The punishment of death shall be inflicted by continuous, intravenous administration of a lethal quantity of an ultra-short-acting barbiturate in combination with a chemical paralytic agent until death is pronounced by a licensed physician according to accepted standards of medical practice.†   (source)
  • David's downcast eyes kindled with energy and assumed a darting intensity that seemed to gather and process information continuously.†   (source)
  • Chanting continuously, they worked themselves into a trancelike state.†   (source)
  • And still it grew: all on one note, a continuous sweet sound, though the sweetness had something horrible about it, till all the air in that great room was throbbing with it and they could feel the stone floor trembling under their feet.†   (source)
  • Ever since the lifting of his mental paralysis, he had been continuously circling round and round the same conundrum.†   (source)
  • At other times there were merely lots of people eating and drinking — continuously from elevenses until six-thirty, when the fireworks started.†   (source)
  • That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now.†   (source)
  • The continuous, gentle rustling of the beech leaves was unlike the sounds to be heard in a copse of nut bushes, oak and silver birch.†   (source)
  • "Tell me again what we're doing here," I said, running a continuous scan of our surroundings.†   (source)
  • A complex built in 1898 by the Cambria Iron Company and soon to be taken over by Bethlehem Steel offered plenty of hard work for gritty, industrious immigrants: twenty-two open-hearth furnaces, two mills for rolling sheared plates, a universal plate mill, and a continuous bar mill.†   (source)
  • Otis's left eye was swollen, his body broken and bleeding in several places—wounds that could only still be there, unhealed, if the torture had been continuous.†   (source)
  • In one long, continuous sentence, she described her plans for the next night.†   (source)
  • Previous ethnic groups arrived in waves that began and ended, giving time for the immigrants to be assimilated, whereas the Mexican wave is continuous.†   (source)
  • Tab's longest continuous juggle lasted about thirty seconds.†   (source)
  • But there it was, the whole history of science, a clear story of continuously new and changing explanations of old facts.†   (source)
  • It was exhausting-as though I had held my breath continuously for an hour under the terrifying serenity that comes from days of intense hunger.†   (source)
  • There was the darkness again, and the sound of rushing wind, ear-shattering, continuous, growing in volume until he thought his head would burst.†   (source)
  • There had been no restrictions on visits in Johannesburg, and I had had a continuous stream of people coming to see me.†   (source)
  • Some might have found the continuous spread of sun-ripened grain waving, acre after acre, monotonous.†   (source)
  • His mother speaks continuously.†   (source)
  • They loitered there to get out of the sun and to catch the continuous cool breeze that came from within.†   (source)
  • While some scoffed at her decision, thinking that she would play the role of a mere secretary, answering phones and filing paperwork, Marsha faced many demands: arranging continuous media interviews, strategizing every aspect of the strenuous travel logistics, and keeping my calendar packed with engagements.†   (source)
  • She laughed aloud, but heard no sound of it; nothing could be heard through the continuous explosion.†   (source)
  • By the time I was fourteen or so, her two languages were leaking into one another continuously.†   (source)
  • It was a continuous squalling, cussing and yelling all the way; like a big ball of sound that rolled down the trail until I couldn't hear it anymore.†   (source)
  • The first was the endless moaning of the wind, as though the land itself was continuously groaning in torment.†   (source)
  • Finally, with teeth clenched so tightly that his jaw muscles twitched continuously, he called up story after story, scanning the contents.†   (source)
  • I try to let all of the separate conversations and voices melt together into what I imagine is one continuous hum.†   (source)
  • Behind the counter were rows of coffee pots that, despite the late-night heat, were in continuous use—although Puller saw many bottles and drafts of cold beer circulated to the thirsty patrons too.†   (source)
  • Near morning, I print out what I have done in one long continuous sheet, the way he prefers to read the thick stack of names.†   (source)
  • They play on a continuous loop, with smells and sound and sorrow.†   (source)
  • It was a continuous dream that was not interrupted even when she reached out for him again and pulled him on top of her.†   (source)
  • He dawdles when he should be making continuous progress.†   (source)
  • Stir continuously.†   (source)
  • The neighborhood lawns spilled into each other, a continuous carpet; the bushes bristled, bushy.†   (source)
  • It throbbed continuously, but considering the alternative, I wasn't complaining.†   (source)
  • War destroys life and property, and creates a continuous state of danger.†   (source)
  • To achieve even that degree of efficiency will require solid and continuous transfer, which requires a low rotational period to prevent convection transfer.†   (source)
  • Lightning kept clawing at the sky almost continuously, thunder shook the earth.†   (source)
  • What slowed us down more than I had expected was all the continuously curving roads.†   (source)
  • The whole mime has been fluid and continuous but now ROS moves forward and brings it to a pause.†   (source)
  • The doctrine of the Cultural Revolution implied continuous anarchy.†   (source)
  • All morning they made their way southeastwards down the strait between Canada and the United States, taking continuous bearings through the periscope, keeping a running plot at the chart table and altering course many times.†   (source)
  • After the first two days and nights of nearly continuous observing I had about reached the limits of my endurance.†   (source)
  • In the Museum of Heaven, which is a well-built and continuously guarded installation—†   (source)
  • Yet of a new form of slavery—of human beings continuously replenished and expendable.†   (source)
  • The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.†   (source)
  • All my satisfactions lay in that direction; and the sexual act became for me an extraordinary novelty, a new kind of fulfilment, continuously new.†   (source)
  • 23 was the largest yet, according to the Smithsonian Institution, and was radioing continuous and elaborate coded signals.†   (source)
  • It opened wide its beak, and a continuous flow of grating, unmelodious notes shattered the calm of the gully.†   (source)
  • He talked continuously; the subject of the conversation was the problem of the deserters at Biriuchi.†   (source)
  • Hooves broached, along the hollow street, the lackadaisical rhythms of the weariest of clog dancers, and endless in circles, narrow iron tires grinced continuously after.†   (source)
  • But he got over it in showing off how much they had done— potter's wheel, Sue's loom with a piece half finished, the flume with the village fountain and the showers that ran continuously, iron artifacts that Art and Doug had hammered out.†   (source)
  • It was for this reason that the admission of new states into the Union, which threatened continuously to upset the precarious balance of power between the free and the slave states, between the agricultural and manufacturing regions, was at the heart of some of the great Senate debates in the first half of the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • By their labour the slave populations allow the tempo of continuous warfare to be speeded up.   (source)
  • Above all he remembered his continuous hunger, and the fierce sordid battles at mealtimes.   (source)
  • When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity.   (source)
  • But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous.   (source)
  • And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.   (source)
  • It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist.   (source)
  • There was no place where you could be more certain that the telescreens were watched continuously.   (source)
    continuously = at all times
  • The past not only changed, but changed continuously.   (source)
    continuously = all the time
  • To these people the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave.   (source)
    continuous = uninterrupted (without pause)
  • Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare.   (source)
  • Here it is necessary to repeat what has been said earlier, that by becoming continuous war has fundamentally changed its character.   (source)
  • He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party.   (source)
  • Besides, his memories were not continuous. There had been times when consciousness, even the sort of consciousness that one has in sleep, had stopped dead and started again after a blank interval.   (source)
    continuous = uninterrupted
  • This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink.   (source)
    continuous = uninterrupted (all the time)
  • In the centres of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths.   (source)
    continuous = uninterrupted (without pause)
  • This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs — to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.   (source)
  • But deeper than this lies the original motive, the never-questioned instinct that first led to the seizure of power and brought doublethink, the Thought Police, continuous warfare, and all the other necessary paraphernalia into existence afterwards.   (source)
  • As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare (see Chapter III), which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch.   (source)
  • On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious.   (source)
  • Thus history is continuously rewritten.   (source)
    continuously = at all times
  • It is a problem of continuously moulding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it.   (source)
  • It was not till twenty-three hours, when he was home and in bed — in the darkness, where you were safe even from the telescreen so long as you kept silent — that he was able to think continuously.   (source)
    continuously = without interruption
  • From the table at Winston's left, a little behind his back, someone was talking rapidly and continuously, a harsh gabble almost like the quacking of a duck, which pierced the general uproar of the room.   (source)
    continuously = without pause
  • His continuous employment at parks had eventually given him a somewhat skewed view of reality.†   (source)
  • All this happening against a background of continuous and violent upheaval, mountain ranges thrust up and eroded away, cometary impacts, volcanic eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving ...†   (source)
  • It continuously fluctuates up and down.†   (source)
  • Visitors imagined the landscape of the badlands to be unchanging, but in fact it was continuously eroding.†   (source)
  • He had glimpses of the tyrannosaur down by the lagoon, lunging at the hadrosaurs, which swung their big tails in defense and honked loudly and continuously.†   (source)
  • They feed continuously?†   (source)
  • The day progressed in a continuous rush of activity, without breaks for meals or rest.†   (source)
  • He doesn't fight the restraints, but his hands fidget continuously.†   (source)
  • Continuous bombing of Pas de Calais and the west coast of France.†   (source)
  • There's no need to have a continuous power supply.†   (source)
  • Because he was spinning, they couldn't get a continuous beam on him.†   (source)
  • By midmorning the storm had abated, although a continuous drizzle still percolated through the mist.†   (source)
  • 'Sirius,' Harry repeated, still gazing, mesmerised, at the continuously swaying veil.†   (source)
  • Blowing a whistle continuously is exhausting for the weakened castaway, but you must not falter.†   (source)
  • They were entering a stretch where the wrecked equipment along the road was more or less continuous.†   (source)
  • After that, he wore it continuously until the night he died.†   (source)
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