All 3 Uses of
perpetual
in
The Call of the Wild
- Billee's one fault was his excessive good nature, while Joe was the very opposite, sour and introspective, with a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye.
p. 31.2perpetual = continual or frequent
- He never had enough, and suffered from perpetual hunger pangs.
p. 39.9 *perpetual = continual (always there)
- About his body there was a peculiar springiness, or resiliency, almost catlike, and a quick alertness as of one who lived in perpetual fear of things seen and unseen.
p. 86.5perpetual = continual (always present)
Definition:
continuing forever without change; or occurring so frequently it seems constant