All 13 Uses of
incessant
in
The Swiss Family Robinson
- The crew had lost heart, and were utterly exhausted by incessant labour.†
Chpt 1
- It was not pleasant to have to spend another night in so precarious a situation; but, yielding to necessity, we sat down to enjoy a comfortable supper, for during our exciting and incessant work all day we had taken nothing but an occasional biscuit and a little wine.†
Chpt 1
- The chickens, geese and ducks kept up an incessant din, added to which was the screaming and croaking of flamingoes and penguins, whose dominion we were invading.†
Chpt 1
- And they thereupon plied me incessantly with questions concerning every plant and shrub we passed.†
Chpt 4
- The boys chattered incessantly about savages, fleets of canoes, attack, defence and final annihilation of the invaders.†
Chpt 6
- Incessant rain battered down above us,
Chpt 8 *incessant = continuous
- Six days of hard and incessant toil made but little impression; I do not think that the hole would have been a satisfactory shelter for even Master Knips; but we still did not despair, and were presently rewarded by coming to softer and more yielding substance; our work progressed, and our minds were relieved.†
Chpt 9
- 'Unless air is incessantly renewed it becomes vitiated,' I said, 'and fatal to those who breathe it.†
Chpt 9
- In time all the various parts of the loom were made ready and put together, my wife knowing nothing of it, while to the incessant questions of the children, I replied mysteriously: 'Oh, it is an outlandish sort of musical instrument; mother will know how to play upon it.†
Chpt 10
- Anticipating the setting-in of the rains, I pressed forward all work connected with stores for the winter, and great was the in-gathering of roots, fruits, and grains, potatoes, rice, guavas, sweet acorns, pine-cones; load after load arrived at the cavern, and my wife's active needle was in constant requisition, as the demand for more sacks and bags was incessant.†
Chpt 10
- 'Left undisturbed, these coral insects, labouring incessantly, raise foundations, on which, in course of time, fertile islands appear, clothed with verdure, and inhabited by man.'†
Chpt 10
- My wife and I were incessantly occupied with hayforks, by means of which we shook up and moved the sheaves over which the threshers rode, so as to throw them in the track.†
Chpt 14
- Captain Littlestone allowed as much time as he could spare; but it was necessarily short, so that incessant movement and industry pervaded the settlement for several days.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(incessant) continuous -- often in an annoying way