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Definition
unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly
- The light was yet there, shining dim but constant through the rain.Chapter 28 (56% in)
- Mrs. Reed surveyed me at times with a severe eye, but seldom addressed me: since my illness, she had drawn a more marked line of separation than ever between me and her own children; appointing me a small closet to sleep in by myself, condemning me to take my meals alone, and pass all my time in the nursery, while my cousins were constantly in the drawing-room.Chapter 4 (2% in)
- Even in that obscure position, Miss Scatcherd continued to make her an object of constant notice: she was continually addressing to her such phrases as the following: "Burns" (such it seems was her name: the girls here were all called by their surnames, as boys are elsewhere), "Burns, you are standing on the side of your shoe; turn your toes out immediately."Chapter 6 (13% in)
- Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant, and courageous; very gentle, and very heroic: cease to mistrust yourself — I can trust you unreservedly.Chapter 34 (70% in)
- I preferred utter loneliness to the constant attendance of servants; but Jane's soft ministry will be a perpetual joy.Chapter 37 (84% in)
There are no more uses of "constant" in Jane Eyre.
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