All 8 Uses
continuous
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Black Boy
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- The children were silent, hostile, vindictive, continuously complaining of hunger.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- It was as though I was continuously reacting to the threat of some natural force whose hostile behavior could not be predicted.†
Chpt 1.2
- They begged me so continuously to come to God that it was impossible for me to ignore them without wounding them.†
Chpt 1.4
- I, too, fought; but I fought because I felt I had to keep from being crushed, to fend off continuous attack.†
Chpt 1.5
- I pondered continuously ways of making money, and the only ways that I could think of involved transgressions of the law.†
Chpt 1.10
- My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of terror, tension, and anxiety.†
Chpt 1.13
- Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality.†
Chpt 2.15
- My life as a Negro in America had led me to feel—though my helplessness had made me try to hide it from myself—that the problem of human unity was more important than bread, more important than physical living itself; for I felt that without a common bond uniting men, without a continuous current of shared thought and feeling circulating through the social system, like blood coursing through the body, there could be no living worthy of being called human.†
Chpt 2.18
Definitions:
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(1)
(continuous) continuing in time or space without interruption or irregularity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)