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  • ...and me and Silas and my Sid and Tom on the constant watch day AND night, as I was a-telling you, and not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them; and here at the last minute, lo and behold you, they slides right in under our noses and fools us, and...   (source)
    constant = continuous
  • He constantly glances over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • It was constant, the only eternal thing, inscrutable, detached, dispassionate.†   (source)
  • She almost missed their constant nattering—a human presence no matter how lowly.†   (source)
  • Her mother was constantly sick and there was never any money to fix her.†   (source)
  • I have even stopped thinking about the constant rain, although I laugh when my friends here complain about the heat when it's 68 or 77 degrees Fahrenheit.†   (source)
  • Esperanza could tell that Mama was uneasy with their constant presence.†   (source)
  • Multicolored buses and lorries filled with passengers rolled through the narrow streets of Kabul, led by the constant shouts of the driver assistants who straddled the vehicles' rear bumpers and yelped directions to the driver in their thick Kabuli accent.†   (source)
  • She may also be the friendliest person on the planet — she smiles constantly at everybody in school, even me.†   (source)
  • Off to one side was a room with rows of slot machines that were constantly clinking and ticking and flashing lights.†   (source)
  • Unending squeals from the door and constant tugs on Connor's locked stall door.†   (source)
  • Roy made small talk and tried to act casual while constantly checking behind him, to see if Dana was lurking.†   (source)
  • One engine, for reasons known only to the plane, was thirstier than the others, so the gauges had to be watched constantly.†   (source)
  • He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache.†   (source)
  • As he dug, he kept a constant watchout for Zero, but never saw him.†   (source)
  • Then he resumed a life of constant motion, riding his thumb north and west through Red Bluff, Weaverville, and Willow Creek.†   (source)
  • She was constantly checking on her hives, driving her old flatbed truck from one end of the county to the other.†   (source)
  • My Father felt awful that he had been away and fussed over both of us constantly.†   (source)
  • But I also know that they constantly come loose and more often than not, they're dangling down your back by afternoon.†   (source)
  • Now there was a constant odor, and Brian took another look at the pilot, found him rubbing the shoulder and down the arm now, the left arm, letting go more gas and wincing.†   (source)
  • Knowing that the bus driver liked to entertain his passengers by sending us slipping along the road to the almost inaccessible forest banks washed to a smooth baldness by the constant rains, we continuously looked over our shoulders when we were between the two crossroads so that we could reach the bank before the bus was upon us.†   (source)
  • Tim had the tense, hungry look of an alley cat—that's what he's always reminded me of, an alley cat—and he was constantly restless.†   (source)
  • It wore people down the constant, dreary tension.†   (source)
  • The couple next door constantly fighting.†   (source)
  • Oh, God, no. He and Gen were in constant heat for each other.†   (source)
  • But gravity differs from affection: Only one is constant.†   (source)
  • My reward for doing this was the constant praise of every American we encountered.†   (source)
  • The noise was faint but constant, more eternal than the stars.†   (source)
  • Her little eyes were constantly watching, wide open, seeing what was going on with the world.†   (source)
  • To be a step ahead in matters of romance requires constant vigilance.†   (source)
  • Constant in all things.†   (source)
  • I thought about her constantly.†   (source)
  • We're living in constant fear!"†   (source)
  • My mom is constantly on my case.†   (source)
  • He glanced constantly at the West Door, looking for any sign of Alby and Minho, Newt's concern having rubbed off on him.†   (source)
  • The constantly broken-down elevators forced residents to climb claustrophobic, urine-scented stairways.†   (source)
  • Thousands more floated and flew through the air above, dodging the constant influx of ships.†   (source)
  • He looked around constantly: Every movement in the grass was a lion stalking, every stillness a lion waiting to spring.†   (source)
  • Each guest is very particular about his or her diet, constantly complains about the slowness of the service, and never, ever tips.†   (source)
  • Willy's not trying to be mean—it's just that his arms and legs are in constant motion.†   (source)
  • On top of that, we suffered the constant buzz of mosquitoes, blowflies, and hornets.†   (source)
  • His dark hair was neatly cut and his mustache covered a constant smile.†   (source)
  • Astrology was a symbolic constant all over the world.†   (source)
  • On its front end a half circle of lights glowed, giving feedback from the board's metal detector, which constantly searched ahead to see if there was enough iron in the ground to stay aloft.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, I don't feel comfortable keeping anyone in the palace, facing this constant threat of danger, when I feel confident that we don't have any sort of future together."†   (source)
  • He kept constant watch behind him in the mirror.†   (source)
  • It influenced the way she talked to me, the way she constantly told me to "Keep close."†   (source)
  • The room is constantly moving, a new name and a new person choosing, a new knife and a new choice.†   (source)
  • The children remembered Mr. Poe because he always had a cold and was constantly excusing himself from the table to have a fit of coughing in the next room.†   (source)
  • MOODY (Nods constantly as he testifies.†   (source)
  • His face was planed, and weathered from his time spent constantly outdoors.†   (source)
  • Luke watched the Sports Family house constantly after that.†   (source)
  • She was the sort of person who liked to be constantly busy, Reynie realized.†   (source)
  • She jabbered constantly in my ear.†   (source)
  • Keep the temperature constant and the humidity right, turn the egg several times a day, and in a few weeks you'll have yourself a little peeper."†   (source)
  • And X is what is called a constant.†   (source)
  • My life is in constant danger.†   (source)
  • They were constantly scraping together enough money to pay for gas, to get me lunch money, to buy me a new pair of jeans and a few new shirts.†   (source)
  • She is constantly begging Dad to buy her a cat.†   (source)
  • Lou Anne's wearing her usual long sleeves in the summer heat and her constant smile.†   (source)
  • For one thing, they used computers constantly, a practice traditional mathematicians frowned on.†   (source)
  • Still, we knew how fragile our security was in the face of constantly changing German rules and policies.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Ty, "I'd rather have that than constant interference.†   (source)
  • No other Champions were murdered, thankfully, but Celaena still found herself looking over her shoulder constantly, even though Chaol seemed to consider the two murders to be just unfortunate incidents.†   (source)
  • He constantly wiped my forehead with a soaked cloth.†   (source)
  • His standard, nearly constant frown would disappear; an embarrassed beam would overcome his face.†   (source)
  • Professorji's parents, both in their eighties and rather adventurous for their age, demanded constant care.†   (source)
  • By the time we get to sixth period, the portables' air conditioners have been struggling along for seven hours, with the doors constantly opening and closing.†   (source)
  • A constant stream of diners comes to their table to shake Werner's and Frederick's hands and ask Frederick's mother in low sycophantic voices about her husband's latest advancement.†   (source)
  • The dunes were changed constantly by the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was a child.†   (source)
  • I'm constantly worrying about my stash and if I'll be able to find more.†   (source)
  • He has seborrheic dermatitis, which means that his skin appears to be constantly in a state of rash.†   (source)
  • Devon was both scholarly and very athletic, so the playing fields were vast and, except at such a time of year, constantly in use.†   (source)
  • In the three months since the Cultural Revolution had started, changes had been so constant that I often felt lost.†   (source)
  • To constantly dwell on what might happen would totally suck the joy out of the sport.†   (source)
  • But the general view, constantly reiterated like a magic spell, was that they were safely asleep somewhere in the park.†   (source)
  • At any rate, that was how it looked to his father, and he sought to correct him by constant nagging and beating.†   (source)
  • With his free hand, he put constant pressure on the wound to slow the bleeding.†   (source)
  • The thing is, it doesn't take much reactant mass, so a little argon (and a nuclear reactor to power things) let us accelerate constantly the whole way there.†   (source)
  • Every bed was covered with a woven mat, our only bedding during the months of constant wet heat.†   (source)
  • Now the Choke is so destroyed by decades of battle, the smoke of explosions is a constant fog and nothing can grow there.†   (source)
  • Sean Ackard was one of the cutest guys in their grade and the subject of Hanna's constant fantasies.†   (source)
  • Rameck, little boys who cause constant disruptions in class never grow up to be successful people.†   (source)
  • No doubt the old lady employs people who work on it constantly, a queen's army of worker bees.†   (source)
  • She fought back the constant question, Where is Susie now?†   (source)
  • I do not live my life constantly wishing that I could change the past.†   (source)
  • I obsessed constantly without resolution.†   (source)
  • On the stairs leading to the gallery nearly twenty small boys were clustered, shoulder to shoulder, and the solid ranks undulated with the constant jerking of restless elbows straining under tight woolen jackets.†   (source)
  • By the look on Father's face, I could tell he was getting more and more tired of the constant "What The Boy has done now" routine.†   (source)
  • He constantly attempts to put the tiniest scraps of paper and lint and whatever else he finds on the floor into his mouth.†   (source)
  • Place the paste in a pan, add the sugar, and heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture forms a marmalade.†   (source)
  • Ideas are in the air constantly.†   (source)
  • She was Illyrio's favorite, a fair-haired, blue-eyed wench of sixteen who chattered constantly as she worked.†   (source)
  • He's losing himself in his drawings, and his hands are in a constant state of cramps.†   (source)
  • Constantly doing the limbo.†   (source)
  • Cinder could see the constant movement of huge netscreens and flashing hovers as they darted between the buildings.†   (source)
  • The roads in the cemetery meandered, turning this way and that, so I was constantly shifting back and forth from second to third to second.†   (source)
  • He was in constant pain, he had fever—once I had to call Nigel to hold him while I tied him down to keep him from hurting himself.†   (source)
  • That you chased him constantly, that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • The constant chatter stopped.†   (source)
  • Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.†   (source)
  • Gey took any cells he could get his hands on—he called himself "the world's most famous vulture, feeding on human specimens almost constantly."†   (source)
  • "Yes, that's a constant," said Trillian, "two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine to one against."†   (source)
  • Harsh words and shouts are constantly being flung at my head, though I'm absolutely not used to it.†   (source)
  • Marching constantly around every boy's desk was this message: I LOVE YOUR BUTT.†   (source)
  • It's odd how just being around him today has somehow deepened the need I have to constantly want to be around him.†   (source)
  • She always smelled of machine oil, and when she talked with Leo, she switched from Spanish to English constantly—using them like complementary tools.†   (source)
  • "Yeah," I said, looking away, "it's been hard" — which was for whatever reason the phrase I constantly fell back upon when people told me how sorry they were.†   (source)
  • He has green eyes and one rolls around in his head so much he's constantly tapping his temple to keep it where it's supposed to be.†   (source)
  • With all this variety and the constant stream of messages from the food industry and the media, how can we ever make up our minds?†   (source)
  • We must be constantly on guard against the Disease; the health of our nation, our people, our families, and our minds depends on constant vigilance.†   (source)
  • Dart had not been told—and would not have believed—that it is possible to live in a state of constant fear and be bored at the same time.†   (source)
  • A constant companion.†   (source)
  • He glanced at his watch, synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time by constantly updated radio signals.†   (source)
  • I constantly worried about gangsters on the trains.†   (source)
  • He's in constant motion.†   (source)
  • Why did that kid constantly pester him?†   (source)
  • To be constantly alert to any and every contingency.†   (source)
  • And they're constantly creating these awful comic books about us!†   (source)
  • Mom constantly painted the constellations.†   (source)
  • I read everything, I wrote constantly, and I had boyfriends by the barrelful "Why don't you do the assigned reading?" they'd ask.†   (source)
  • At the same time, there was a constant shower of threats about stopping him from graduating.†   (source)
  • The Varden were a rebel group that constantly raided and attacked the Empire.†   (source)
  • They're constantly tested.†   (source)
  • I was constantly fighting.†   (source)
  • I was blinded from the constant looking back: Lot's wife.†   (source)
  • The wind had settled to a constant moan, and the trees seemed to be shuddering less.†   (source)
  • Children and their parents constantly gathered around it and examined the writing: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, Waisenkind — orphan.†   (source)
  • Always helping others, constantly bringing in animals and keeping them as pets.†   (source)
  • The only consistent elements of decor at Cicero's over the decades were the low ceilings, thick smoke, and constant background babble which offered a sense of privacy in the midst of bustle.†   (source)
  • In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds.†   (source)
  • Your Sister in Sorrow, Nettie Just when I think I've learned to live with the heat, the constant dampness, even steaminess of my clothes, the swampiness under my arms and between my legs, my Mend comes.†   (source)
  • He rehearsed this constantly.†   (source)
  • Academically, he was constantly in the gifted and advanced classes.†   (source)
  • Without her voice, the slight static hum that constantly played beneath her words sounds louder.†   (source)
  • Seward's doctors warned the family to keep him under constant watch.†   (source)
  • Whatever zest and pep the other girls had that made them cartwheel, high kick, and smile constantly was missing in me, like a genetic or chemical malfunction.†   (source)
  • He excelled, however, at drawing and sketched constantly.†   (source)
  • As you know, that's Shakespeare's sonnet 73, your constant bedside reading.†   (source)
  • When he smiled, which was near-constantly, his mouth smiled, his eyes smiled, his shoulders even seemed to smile.†   (source)
  • Adam Farmer was nothing—the void yawned ahead of him and behind him, with no constant to guide himself by.†   (source)
  • His obvious affection for the animals was what touched us: as they went along he constantly muttered and fussed at them.†   (source)
  • And the whole time there was that constant rain.†   (source)
  • There is a constant undulation of the ground that makes the shattered glass flash and twinkle; this is caused by vast, sparse migrations of rats.†   (source)
  • They were tired of constantly looking for new carhops and short-order cooks — who were in great demand — as the old ones left for higher-paying jobs elsewhere.†   (source)
  • It's a horseshoe-shaped room with about a dozen beds and a cadre of nurses, who constantly bustle around, reading the computer printouts that churn out from the feet of our beds recording our vital signs.†   (source)
  • She is one with the constant dark now, just as the air was her home, familiar to her, safe, before the storm that afternoon.†   (source)
  • I remember the constant fighting.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't say this to her, but she can get pretty full of herself, being this big writer and all; constantly getting recognized because her picture appears next to her column in the paper.†   (source)
  • "The flow is constant," Alfonse said.†   (source)
  • They darted from tree to tree, from bush to bush, constantly looking behind them.†   (source)
  • She developed a stubborn allergic rash on her scalp from the constant chafing of her wimple.†   (source)
  • Aunt Agnes was eighty-four, and although she drove the twins to distraction with her constant fussing, they were very fond of her.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he just liked to be constantly in motion.†   (source)
  • I was obliged during the course of that first morning to go constantly in and out of the room, and so was unable to follow the proceedings at all fully.†   (source)
  • I was constantly helping my students develop their own feedback loops.†   (source)
  • So there must be another Henryk, one I would understand if I only knew him, instead of being constantly at odds with him.†   (source)
  • Jesse and Sarah, willing to do anything, made themselves constantly available to the family and friends who came to help.†   (source)
  • I'm constantly aware of her, hovering, twitching.†   (source)
  • I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.†   (source)
  • And for a few moments I had relief from the great blanketing grief that was constantly crushing me.†   (source)
  • One is never too young to fight for our constitutional rights, which are under constant assault from rightwing forces.†   (source)
  • Last week's columns are nonexistent, zapped by a constant, white-hot beam of news and information that blurs history.†   (source)
  • I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it.†   (source)
  • Another constant terror was the war.†   (source)
  • Bellamy worried about her constantly.†   (source)
  • We both know how constant a watch we must keep to prevent traitors from infiltrating our forces …. but I have two new reports.†   (source)
  • Constantly.†   (source)
  • Even within a single civilization old trails are constantly closed and new ones opened up.†   (source)
  • Two hours into the drive, he was crying constantly, stopping about every thirty minutes to throw up again.†   (source)
  • The Baby Thing, as I called it, had become a constant in Jenny's life and was getting bigger by the day.†   (source)
  • While he sat on his heels his father explained softly the meaning of zenshin, which the boy understood to mean a constant awareness of potential danger.†   (source)
  • If atoms could eternally be broken down into ever smaller parts, nature would begin to dissolve like constantly diluted soup.†   (source)
  • Rising and falling, complex in harmony, uncertain in pitch, but constant in the recitative of pain.†   (source)
  • Her constant questioning and growing irreverence in matters of faith upset and frightened him.†   (source)
  • I remember only snippets of things, aside from a constant feeling of misery and fear.†   (source)
  • THE HOUSE WHERE CAL HAD GROWN UP WAS, IN his opinion, in a constant state of evolution.†   (source)
  • We courted decorously, not like Dede and Jaimito, two little puppies you constantly have to watch over so they don't get into trouble—Mama has been telling me the stories.†   (source)
  • There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child.†   (source)
  • Now, my mother talked constantly about the submarines, the lack of water, and the shortage of food.†   (source)
  • They were months of nearly constant work.†   (source)
  • Even from Blomkvist's relatively distant observation post he could tell that it was a good old AK4, the rifle that had been his constant companion for the year of his military service.†   (source)
  • She worried about this constantly.†   (source)
  • After December 3rd we began to get used to the sight of soldiers constantly around town.†   (source)
  • When she goes to work on a night shift, she constantly reminds me to lock the doors and windows, and sometimes she calls on the phone if she gets a chance and tells me again.†   (source)
  • This night was more typical than less; the winds whistled constantly and the candles constantly needed relighting, and some of the more daringly dressed ladies shivered.†   (source)
  • This close to the ocean the weather changed constantly, and a rainstorm could quickly escalate into a flash flood.†   (source)
  • Donnie has learned to open the-doors and climb on the chairs & other furniture & he worries me constantly about falling.†   (source)
  • Patrick did not have to explain to her-a woman who'd lived with regret as a constant companion-that convicting Peter Houghton was not enough.†   (source)
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