All 17 Uses
perpetual
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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- Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually.†
- But here bells ring; feet shuffle perpetually.†
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- The streamers of my consciousness waver out and are perpetually torn and distressed by their disorder.†
- Meanwhile the hats bob up and down; the door perpetually shuts and opens.†
- I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon; am aware of hats bobbing up and down in perpetual disorder.†
- What I say is perpetually contradicted.†
- and shuffling closer on our perch in this restaurant where everybody's interests are at variance, and the incessant passage of traffic chafes us with distractions, and the door opening perpetually its glass cage solicits us with myriad temptations and offers insults and wounds to our confidence—sitting together here we love each other and believe in our own endurance.'†
- But the silence weighs on me—the perpetual solicitation of the eye.†
- The clouds change perpetually over our houses.†
- I, who am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement, make this mark, waiting for some winter's evening.†
- Look how they show off clothes here even under ground in a perpetual radiance.†
- Yet they have only to speak, and their first words, with the remembered tone and the perpetual deviation from what one expects, and their hands moving and making a thousand past days rise again in the darkness, shake my purpose.†
- It is the effort and the struggle, it is the perpetual warfare, it is the shattering and piecing together—this is the daily battle, defeat or victory, the absorbing pursuit.†
- The true order of things—this is our perpetual illusion—is now apparent.†
- Swelling, perpetually augmented, there is a vast accumulation of unrecorded matter in my head.†
- It had been too vast an undertaking, I said, and how can I go on lifting my foot perpetually to climb the stair?†
- He mops and mows perpetually, pointing with his half-idiot gestures of greed and covetousness at what he desires.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(perpetual) continuing forever without change; or occurring so frequently it seems constant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)