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Definition
continuing forever without change
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occurring so frequently it seems continual
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual
- Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page.Chapter 11 (23% in)
- The perpetual commendations of the lady, either on his handwriting, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.Chapter 10 (5% in)
- Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through Longbourn House.Chapter 41 (10% in)
- It would be nothing; I could see him with perfect indifference, but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of.Chapter 53 (38% in)
There are no more uses of "perpetual" in Pride and Prejudice.
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