All 3 Uses of
perpetual
in
The Scarlet Letter
- His voice and laugh, which perpetually re-echoed through the Custom-House, had nothing of the tremulous quaver and cackle of an old man's utterance; they came strutting out of his lungs, like the crow of a cock, or the blast of a clarion.†
p. 18.1
- But it was the constant shadow of my presence, the closest propinquity of the man whom he had most vilely wronged, and who had grown to exist only by this perpetual poison of the direst revenge!†
p. 115.6 *
- Might there not be an irresistible desire to quaff a last, long, breathless draught of the cup of wormwood and aloes, with which nearly all her years of womanhood had been perpetually flavoured.†
p. 153.0
Definition:
continuing forever without change
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual