All 8 Uses of
incessant
in
Walden
- The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease.†
Chpt 1
- Surely not more warmth of the same kind, as more and richer food, larger and more splendid houses, finer and more abundant clothing, more numerous, incessant, and hotter fires, and the like.†
Chpt 1
- Incessant labor with my hands, at first, for I had my house to finish and my beans to hoe at the same time, made more study impossible.†
Chpt 3
- Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
Chpt 4 *incessant = continuous
- Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homoeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.†
Chpt 8
- It is a soothing employment, on one of those fine days in the fall when all the warmth of the sun is fully appreciated, to sit on a stump on such a height as this, overlooking the pond, and study the dimpling circles which are incessantly inscribed on its otherwise invisible surface amid the reflected skies and trees.†
Chpt 9
- Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly.†
Chpt 12
- There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(incessant) continuous -- often in an annoying way