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Definition of incessantly:

  • (adverb) with unflagging resolve | endlessly | ceaselessly | unendingly | unceasingly | continuously

Sentence Examples:

To be incessantly watching by day, and starting up at night, with the thought that he was come!

Daniel Boone, in imagination, was incessantly visiting the land beyond the mountains, and longing to explore its mysteries.

The wounded moaned incessantly; some sat up in the straw, heads turned also towards the dim, gray plain.

It is the same with fire and water, which, being no longer arrested, run incessantly towards their center.

The Duchess had met him with tear-swollen lids, and had wept incessantly during the short interview.

During her delirium she discovered our love, and incessantly called on me to deliver her from her tyrant.

For Nanny could sleep very little, and when she could not sleep she wanted talking incessantly.

Vowels are employed so incessantly that the words are round and soft, and lend themselves easily to song.

Incessantly, I heard the order inside of me, to seek revenge against human society by violating its laws.

He talked almost incessantly for a long time, but occasionally giving me opportunity for putting in a word.

Noel sought her company incessantly, and every opportunity was given them of spending time in one another's society.

In short, I knock incessantly at the door of Creation, and shall still knock till my latest day.

The whistles incessantly cut the air, their alarming, desperate shrieks aroused a consciousness of danger in the woman.

It was quite a good place, but conspicuous and dangerous, and shells struck incessantly on the wall behind.

An engine was planted at the top, which incessantly discharged heavy stones on the works of the Burgundians.

It is true that the universe is a great battery incessantly sending an infinity of calls of infinitely varied messages.

This means that, when flying in a wind, the pilot need not be working incessantly at his levers.

The contest was carried on incessantly for four hours and a half, and roused up the whole camp.

Everyone, too, by whom she was now surrounded labored more or less incessantly; work made up their lives.

This warfare is kept up incessantly until about the 25th of May, when they suddenly disappear at night.

And not only nations, but philosophers, firmly believe in its existence, and are incessantly in search of it.

Day, coming to breakfast and staying to dinner, argued incessantly about scientific principles and the laws of nature.

Better I had chosen death, than to be interred alive in this abyss, which incessantly racks my thoughts!

When in the midst of his game and his enemies, hand and foot, eye and ear, are incessantly active.

In our waking moments the mind is kept incessantly active by the demands made on it through the senses.

He had been there at least an hour and a half, wounded, incessantly mocked, and almost stoned to death.

This fighting continued three days and nights incessantly; at last, becoming tired on both sides, they separated.

The man moved his lips incessantly, as if in devout prayer, yet looked constantly about him in both directions.

To be evident and palpable, because it consists entirely of facts incessantly present to the senses, and to demonstration.

The little Dean especially, beloved of all the world, had been incessantly active on behalf of peace and oblivion.

When not employed in efforts of courage or address, it incessantly yields itself to those of labor and science.

When she meant to be entertaining and agreeable, she nodded her head incessantly and snapped her eyes at one.

And in the wood behind, now cut off from them by the riding waves, owls called incessantly.

Scholars spend their lives in incessantly perfecting their "auxiliary" knowledge, which they rightly regard as never perfect.

She had heard that her father talked incessantly to Hardy, so was satisfied that all went well.

His beard and hair curled slightly, and beneath his rather heavy brows keen, kind eyes danced incessantly.

On the way he talks incessantly, assuring me repeatedly that he considers it a great privilege to entertain me.

A battery had taken up its position in the shelter of a wood close by and was firing incessantly.

He never lost his devotion to the Emperor, spoke of him incessantly, and imagined himself on duty near him.

His quick, penetrating glance wandered incessantly from place to place, perceiving all things, but resting on none.

If a man has self-surrender pressed incessantly upon him, this keeps the idea of self ever before his view.

If a man has self-surrender pressed incessantly upon him, this keeps the idea of self ever before his view.

It was plain that the woman was mad, for as she polished the skull, she chattered incessantly.

The guests dance and sing and talk incessantly, and are perfectly satisfied to enjoy themselves without eating.

The enemy fired incessantly upon them while the work was being carried out, but nobody was hit.

The snow which has fallen the night before makes going bad and one slips and stumbles incessantly.

To all that they incessantly proposed to him in whispers, he answered in the shadow, "What use is it?"

The monarch incessantly demanded news of his son; but all who surrounded him preserved a melancholy silence.

Sometimes she would say that he was trying to disgust her with him by incessantly tormenting her.

These were the questions she asked herself incessantly as they walked their horses through the empty streets.

He labors with his pen and his books incessantly, sometimes more than his body can well bear.

He carried it about with him, reading it incessantly and eagerly at dinner, in the streets, in the theater.

Strong noted further that her hands were incessantly uneasy, and that she ate little and without interest.

She talked incessantly, addressing her conversation chiefly to her host, on whose right hand she was seated.

Each remark made by the young lady was answered by Percy, and that gentleman talked almost incessantly.

She trod close on my heels, railing incessantly, and my anger increased with every step I took.

What happened in actual fact to a young man who ran incessantly and persistently through the London streets?

On all sides were familiar faces, but what interested him most was the great division incessantly going on.

Or had she missed her footing and plunged headlong into that sea which boomed incessantly against the cliffs?

The rifles crashed incessantly and the heavy thunder of the cannon gave the steady sound a deeper note.

Garry's own actions first began to indicate how incessantly he was debating that question within his own brain.

Immediately the quiet evacuation dissolved into an uproar, with men running and shouting and the bell ringing incessantly.

All that man can say to them afterward is but lost labor, though one preach to them incessantly.

He discoursed at great length, repeating himself incessantly, losing himself in endless trains of argument which nobody contradicted.

It seemed to him he had been laughing incessantly for a week, and that he would continue to laugh forever.

In those regions it snows, if not incessantly, at least very frequently, and the snow melts but little.

He appeared like one at peace with all the world, calm and serene as a summer's day, and smoked incessantly.

The electric flame returned incessantly to the same points of the rock, where there were probably metallic veins.

The wind rose higher and higher, cutting long slits in the tent, through which the rain poured incessantly.

All creatures that fill the world are incessantly conflicting, and one lives only at the cost of another.

There were hysterical men, who laughed loudly without a cause, and talked incessantly of what they knew not.

She wrote incessantly, but even so she could hardly have accomplished her daily tasks without some clerical assistance.

Those still voices seemed incessantly calling me, and something in my heart answered them of its own accord.

Why was it that these disciples of his, as well as he, were to be so incessantly upon the watch!

For four months it rained incessantly, but the great interest of preparing for the Salon has interested me.

We spent three days of suspense; but during those three days I stayed in bed and worked incessantly.

Proceeding upstairs to the first floor, we find books, still current, but not quite so incessantly called for.

The blood of the saints will not be shed in vain, but will cry out incessantly for vengeance.

After boiling for an hour, it is allowed to completely cool, being incessantly stirred during the whole process.

The male seals have remained for at least two months, incessantly fighting and watching, without taking any food.

The confusion of facts and violence of passions struggled incessantly against the principle which strove to restrain them.

After speaking thus, her tears seemed to flow less incessantly, and her sighs and complaints became more moderate.

He was just then suffering from an unusually severe attack, which incessantly reminded him of his approaching end.

Was what she was thinking incessantly, and she tried to make him realize that he was not wanted.

Pierre did not weary, and his glances incessantly travelled from one end of the horizon to the other.

The summer of 1806 had been very rainy; and on the first and second of September it rained incessantly.

Under this tuition the young musician made rapid advancement, for he labored incessantly in the practice of his instrument.

He was covering himself with dust and water like his companions in misfortune, and continued to do so incessantly.

It still rained incessantly, and the riders were glad enough to keep under the densest trees they could find.

He will no longer be incessantly occupied in blunting and destroying those organs from which he expects his gratification.

Corpses floated in the bay, and tempest followed tempest incessantly, as if the day of judgment were at hand.

Long range artillery duels raged incessantly; but there had been little work for the cavalry and infantry.

He knew that the day had its significance, and that the wound bled within secretly and incessantly.

The quarrel between the great Saxon composer and his opponents raged incessantly both in public and private.

Invisible to each other, we chat, exchange stories and anecdotes, the boys talking incessantly, as if fearful of silence.

All the settlers complain sadly of being frequently robbed by the runaway convicts, who plunder them incessantly.

In the distance a dog barked incessantly: there was no other sound to disturb the quiet of the night.

They worked incessantly, and returned to their undertakings as soon as the interruption caused by the examination was over.

He labored incessantly with his pen, to expose the vices of the clergy, and promote a more spiritual religion.

Although the moral sense and religious sentiment are in origin distinct, they act and react incessantly upon each other.