All 10 Uses of
constant
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The Idiot
- His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical—it might almost be called a malicious—smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face.†
Chpt 1.1constantly = in a manner that is unchanging, continuous, or happens repeatedly
- Colia was indelicate enough to voice the delight he felt at his success in managing to annoy Lizabetha Prokofievna, with whom, in spite of their really amicable relations, he was constantly sparring.†
Chpt 2.6
- His words seemed tinged with a kind of sarcastic mockery, yet he was extremely agitated, casting suspicious glances around him, growing confused, and constantly losing the thread of his ideas.†
Chpt 2.10
- Always restless, always on the go, she constantly seemed to lose her way, and to get into trouble over the simplest and more ordinary affairs of life.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- What then must have been her condition, when, among all the imaginary anxieties and calamities which so constantly beset her, she now saw looming ahead a serious cause for annoyance—something really likely to arouse doubts and suspicions!†
Chpt 3.1
- Lebedeff had roused great indignation in some of his auditors (it should be remarked that the bottles were constantly uncorked during his speech); but this unexpected conclusion calmed even the most turbulent spirits.†
Chpt 3.4
- To serve her brother's interests, Varvara Ardalionovna was constantly at the Epanchins' house, helped by the fact that in childhood she and Gania had played with General Ivan Fedorovitch's daughters.†
Chpt 4.1
- "Constant?" said the prince, suddenly, and quite involuntarily.†
Chpt 4.4
- No; Constant was away then, taking a letter to the Empress Josephine.†
Chpt 4.4
- Thank you, my friend;' and then and there he sat down and wrote that letter to Josephine, with which Constant was sent off next day.†
Chpt 4.4
Definition:
unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly