All 11 Uses of
continuous
in
The Thundering Herd
- But this was one long continuous roll.†
Chpt 1 *
- Suddenly Tom became aware of heavy and continuous booming of guns--close, medium, and far-away reports mingling.†
Chpt 3
- At first she thought a storm was brewing out toward the Staked Plain, but the thunder was too steady and continuous.†
Chpt 7
- Already the boom of guns floated in on the summer air from all sides, increasing for a while, until along the upriver prairie there was almost continuous detonation.†
Chpt 13
- The continuous roar, the endless motion toward certain catastrophe, were driving her mad.†
Chpt 15
- On each side of Milly streams and strings and groups of buffalo passed to go down into the river, from which a loud continuous splashing rose.†
Chpt 15
- For a whole day Milly's ears had been filled and harassed by a continuous trample, at first a roar, then a clatter, then a slow beat, beat, beat of hoofs, but always a trample.†
Chpt 15
- Their Winchesters were rattling in a continuous volley, and a hail of lead whistled over and into the bowlder corral.†
Chpt 16
- In another moment the firing became so fast and furious that it blended as a continuous thundering in Tom's ears.†
Chpt 16
- The Creedmoors thundered as continuously as before, and the volume of sound must have been damning to the desperate courage of the Comanches.†
Chpt 16
- Tom sank down, overcome by the spectacle, by the continuous trembling of the earth under him, by the strangulation which threatened, by the terrible pressure on his ear-drums.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(continuous) continuing in time or space without interruption or irregularity