All 6 Uses
perpetual
in
The Good Soldier
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- Do you understand that, whilst she was Edward's mistress, she was perpetually trying to reunite him to his wife?†
Part 1 *
- The mother was no doubt an irritating woman and the privates of that regiment appeared to have been irritating, too, so that the house was a place of outcries and perpetual disturbances.†
Part 3
- He had no minute's rest; his bowels turned round and round within him: his tongue was perpetually dry and it seemed to him that the breath between his teeth was like air from a pest-house.†
Part 3
- She was perpetually asking her boy husband why he could not dress, ride, shoot, play polo, or even recite sentimental poems, like their major.†
Part 3
- She saw life as a perpetual sex-baffle between husbands who desire to be unfaithful to their wives, and wives who desire to recapture their husbands in the end.†
Part 4
- She asked him perpetually what he wanted.†
Part 4
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)