All 18 Uses of
constant
in
Great Expectations
- Above all, she was a blessing to Joe, for the dear old fellow was sadly cut up by the constant contemplation of the wreck of his wife, and had been accustomed, while attending on her of an evening, to turn to me every now and then and say, with his blue eyes moistened, "Such a fine figure of a woman as she once were, Pip!"†
Chpt 16
- We drank all the wine, and Mr. Pumblechook pledged himself over and over again to keep Joseph up to the mark (I don't know what mark), and to render me efficient and constant service (I don't know what service).†
Chpt 19 *
- Indeed, it demanded from him a constant attention, and a quickness of eye and hand, very like that exacted by wicket-keeping.†
Chpt 27
- A better proof of the severity of my bondage to that taskmaster could scarcely be afforded, than the degrading shifts to which I was constantly driven to find him employment.†
Chpt 30constantly = in a manner that is unchanging, continuous, or happens repeatedly
- But I have heard him constantly.†
Chpt 30
- "Don't you expect to see him?" said I. "O yes, I constantly expect to see him," returned Herbert, "because I never hear him, without expecting him to come tumbling through the ceiling.†
Chpt 30
- His constant height is of a piece with his immense abilities.†
Chpt 32
- First, notwithstanding the proverb that constant dropping will wear away a stone, you may set your mind at rest that these people never will—never would, in hundred years—impair your ground with Miss Havisham, in any particular, great or small.†
Chpt 33
- "It is a part of Miss Havisham's plans for me, Pip," said Estella, with a sigh, as if she were tired; "I am to write to her constantly and see her regularly and report how I go on,—I and the jewels,— for they are nearly all mine now."†
Chpt 33constantly = in a manner that is unchanging, continuous, or happens repeatedly
- There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did.†
Chpt 34
- She made use of me to tease other admirers, and she turned the very familiarity between herself and me to the account of putting a constant slight on my devotion to her.†
Chpt 38
- I have been thrown among one family of your relations, Miss Havisham, and have been constantly among them since I went to London.†
Chpt 44constantly = in a manner that is unchanging, continuous, or happens repeatedly
- Condemned to inaction and a state of constant restlessness and suspense, I rowed about in my boat, and waited, waited, waited, as I best could.†
Chpt 47
- They kept me very quiet all day, and kept my arm constantly dressed, and gave me cooling drinks.†
Chpt 53constantly = in a manner that is unchanging, continuous, or happens repeatedly
- Yet he was as submissive to a word of advice as if he had been in constant terror; for, when we ran ashore to get some bottles of beer into the boat, and he was stepping out, I hinted that I thought he would be safest where he was, and he said.†
Chpt 54
- But, above all, I knew that there was a constant tendency in all these people,—who, when I was very ill, would present all kinds of extraordinary transformations of the human face, and would be much dilated in size,—above all, I say, I knew that there was an extraordinary tendency in all these people, sooner or later, to settle down into the likeness of Joe.†
Chpt 57
- He had a curious idea that the inkstand was on the side of him where it was not, and constantly dipped his pen into space, and seemed quite satisfied with the result.†
Chpt 57constantly = in a manner that is unchanging, continuous, or happens repeatedly
- Many a year went round before I was a partner in the House; but I lived happily with Herbert and his wife, and lived frugally, and paid my debts, and maintained a constant correspondence with Biddy and Joe.†
Chpt 58
Definition:
unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly