Both Uses
constant
in
The Railway Children
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- But if you smile too constantly, the smile is apt to get fixed like the smile of the hyena.†
p. 104.2 *constantly = in a manner that is unchanging, continuous, or happens repeatedly
- But Peter's vegetables never had much of a chance, because he liked to use the earth of his garden for digging canals, and making forts and earthworks for his toy soldiers, and the seeds of vegetables rarely come to much in a soil that is constantly disturbed for the purposes of war and irrigation.†
p. 185.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(constant) unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)