All 14 Uses
perpetual
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
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- Then he looked at his mother, seeing, as though she were someone else, the dark, hard lines running downward from her eyes, and the deep, perpetual scowl in her forehead, and the downturned, tightened mouth, and the strong, thin, brown, and bony hands; and the phrase turned against him like a two-edged sword, for was it not he, in his false pride and his evil imagination, who was filthy?†
Chpt 1.1
- Between these two extremes, the greeting cards, received year after year, on Christmas, or Easter, or birthdays, trumpeted their glad tidings; while the green metal serpent, perpetually malevolent, raised its head proudly in the midst of these trophies, biding the time to strike.†
Chpt 1.1
- as though she were looking far beyond him at a long, dark road, and seeing on that road a traveler in perpetual danger.†
Chpt 1.1
- In the air of the church hung, perpetually, the odor of dust and sweat; for, like the carpet in his mother's living-room, the dust of this church was invincible; and when the saints were praying or rejoicing, their bodies gave off an acrid, steamy smell, a marriage of the odors of dripping bodies and soaking, starched white linen.†
Chpt 1.1
- In their eyes lived perpetually a lewd, uneasy wonder concerning the night she had been taken in the fields.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- It was he who, unforgivably, taught her that there are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.†
Chpt 2.1
- For the rebirth of the soul was perpetual; only rebirth every hour could stay the hand of Satan.†
Chpt 2.2
- Hell, everlasting, unceasing, perpetual, un-quenched forever, should be his father's portion; with John there to watch, to linger, to smile, to laugh aloud, hearing, at last, his father's cries of torment.†
Chpt 2.2
- Her mother was always angry and Elizabeth paid no attention; and, later, her aunt was perpetually angry and Elizabeth learned to bear it: but if her father had ever been angry with her?†
Chpt 2.3
- To this perpetual accusation Elizabeth had never replied; she merely regarded her aunt with a wide-eyed, insolent stare, meant at once to register her disdain and to thwart any pretext for punishment.†
Chpt 2.3
- He moved exactly like a cat, perpetually on the balls of his feet, and with a cat's impressive, indifferent aloofness, his face closed, in his eyes no light at all.†
Chpt 2.3
- only a perpetual, distant, faint trembling far beneath him?†
Chpt 3.1
- They wandered in the valley forever; and they smote the rock, forever; and the waters sprang, perpetually, in the perpetual desert.†
Chpt 3.1
- They wandered in the valley forever; and they smote the rock, forever; and the waters sprang, perpetually, in the perpetual desert.†
Chpt 3.1
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)