All 12 Uses
relentless
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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- She tried to pierce the distance far away, beyond which lay the shores of France: that relentless and stern France which was exacting her pound of flesh, the blood-tax from the noblest of her sons.†
Chpt 7 *relentless = to continue without stopping in an extreme manner
- Here and there, dotted about among distinctly English types of beauty, one or two foreign faces stood out in marked contrast: the haughty aristocratic cast of countenance of the many French royalist EMIGRES who, persecuted by the relentless, revolutionary faction of their country, had found a peaceful refuge in England.†
Chpt 10
- "Nay, citoyenne," he said drily and relentlessly, not heeding that despairing, childlike appeal, which might have melted a heart of stone, "as Lady Blakeney, no one suspects you, and with your help to-night I may—who knows?†
Chpt 10relentlessly = in an extreme manner that does not stop
- Marguerite would redeem her brother's life at the hands of the relentless enemy, then let that cunning Scarlet Pimpernel extricate himself after that.†
Chpt 14relentless = to continue without stopping in an extreme manner
- She lay back in her chair, passive and still, seeing the figure of her relentless enemy ever present before her aching eyes.†
Chpt 14
- Had anyone told her a week ago that she would stoop to spy upon her friends, that she would betray a brave and unsuspecting man into the hands of a relentless enemy, she would have laughed the idea to scorn.†
Chpt 16
- His massive figure seemed, while she spoke thus to him, to stiffen still more, the strong mouth hardened, a look of relentless obstinacy crept into the habitually lazy blue eyes.†
Chpt 16
- And then her own work in the matter, which should have culminated at one o'clock in Lord Grenville's dining-room, when the relentless agent of the French Government would finally learn who was this mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, who so openly defied an army of spies and placed himself so boldly, and for mere sport, on the side of the enemies of France.†
Chpt 19
- Percy had started for Calais, utterly unconscious of the fact that his most relentless enemy was on his heels.†
Chpt 19
- He recounted to her some of the daring escapes the brave Scarlet Pimpernel had contrived for the poor French fugitives, whom a relentless and bloody revolution was driving out of their country.†
Chpt 21
- Chauvelin had sworn to bring the Scarlet Pimpernel to the guillotine, and now the daring plotter, whose anonymity hitherto had been his safeguard, stood revealed through her own hand, to his most bitter, most relentless enemy.†
Chpt 23
- She had abandoned all hope of saving him: she saw him gradually hemmed in on all sides, and, in despair, she gazed round her into the darkness, and wondered whence he would presently come, to fall into the death-trap which his relentless enemy had prepared for him.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(relentless) to continue without stopping in an extreme manner -- often of something that is harsh or oppressive
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)