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Definition
unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly
- He thought of trying to get out of bed, but the thought of the thump and the drop and the accompanying escalation of pain constantly deterred him.Part 1 — Annie (38% in)
- Then the awareness that, although the pain was constant, it was sometimes buried by an uneasy compromise which he supposed was relief.Part 1 — Annie (4% in)
- He had constantly refused, for no rational reason: it was just that making copies seemed a jinx thing to do.Part 1 — Annie (42% in)
- She was the embodiment of that Victorian archetype, Constant Reader.Part 1 — Annie (63% in)
- Constant Reader had just become Merciless Editor.Part 2 — Misery (3% in)
- She really was Constant Reader, but Constant Reader did not mean Constant Sap.Part 2 — Misery (4% in)
- She really was Constant Reader, but Constant Reader did not mean Constant Sap.Part 2 — Misery (4% in)
- She really was Constant Reader, but Constant Reader did not mean Constant Sap.Part 2 — Misery (4% in)
- He understood how she could like what he had written and still know it was not right , know it and say it not with an editor's sometimes untrustworthy literary sophistication but with Constant Reader's flat and uncontradictable certainty.Part 2 — Misery (7% in)
- He thought Constant Reader would not swallow two unrelated women in neighboring townships being buried alive six months apart as a result of beestings.Part 2 — Misery (34% in)
- The challenges were constant.Part 2 — Misery (49% in)
- He knew how constantly he had been terrorized, but did he know how much of his own subjective reality, once so strong he had taken it for granted, had been erased?Part 3 — Paul (31% in)
- Annie had listened to the radio constantly since her long sleep, and the missing state cop, whose name was Duane Kushner, was big news.Part 3 — Paul (68% in)
- Paul wrote almost constantly.Part 3 — Paul (73% in)
- She looked worse than he had ever seen her, her face haggard and pate, her eyes darting constantly.Part 3 — Paul (75% in)
There are no more uses of "constant" in Misery.
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