3 uses
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Definition
continuing forever without change
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual
- 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.2.15 (6% in)
- 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.3.27 (40% in)
- I get so sick of women in dowdy old clothes and perpetual crepe.4.34 (35% in)
There are no more uses of "perpetual" in Gone with the Wind.
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