Both Uses of
relentless
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- There is no school in all our land where the young ladies do not feel obliged to close their compositions with a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.†
Chpt 21relentlessly = in an extreme manner that does not stop
- Tom kept his ears open when idlers sauntered out of the court-room, but invariably heard distressing news—the toils were closing more and more relentlessly around poor Potter.†
Chpt 23 *
Definition:
to continue without stopping in an extreme manner -- often of something that is harsh or oppressive