Both Uses of
perpetual
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- But Tess's desire seemed to be for a perpetual betrothal in which everything should remain as it was then.†
Chpt 4 *
- Whenever Tess lifted her head she beheld always the great upgrown straw-stack, with the men in shirt-sleeves upon it, against the gray north sky; in front of it the long red elevator like a Jacob's ladder, on which a perpetual stream of threshed straw ascended, a yellow river running uphill, and spouting out on the top of the rick.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
continuing forever without change; or occurring so frequently it seems constant