All 3 Uses of
perpetual
in
Gone with the Wind
- Where he had once been lounging and indolent, he was now as alert as a prowling cat, with the tense alertness of one whose nerves are perpetually drawn as tight as the strings of a violin.†
Chpt 2.15 *
- And there was the old portrait of Grandma Robillard, with bosoms half bared, hair piled high and nostrils cut so deeply as to give her face a perpetual well-bred sneer.†
Chpt 3.27
- I get so sick of women in dowdy old clothes and perpetual crepe.†
Chpt 4.34
Definition:
continuing forever without change; or occurring so frequently it seems constant