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Definition of incessantly:

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

Sentence Examples:

The thoughts of this conspiracy frustrated by an accident, as Alison says, "incessantly occupied his mind during his long and solitary journey."

In his way to the place of execution the populace treated him with remarkable severity, incessantly pelting him with stones and dirt.

If he had not blundered incessantly since he took over the district, I should not have had to drop important work to come here.

Incessantly there were moans and cries of anguish, and, ever and anon, that terrible sound in the throat known as the death-rattle.

To the great and incessantly active flotilla got together in this way, the regulating captains on shore contributed a further large contingent.

The form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence was forever before my eyes, and I raved incessantly concerning him.

I am not one of those troublesome passengers who complain incessantly of the narrowness of the cabins, and the insufficiency of the table.

Friend Ned, you are getting tired of this journey under the sea; you are surfeited with the incessantly varying spectacle of submarine wonders.

When I add that the volatile waves incessantly efface what they have just before reflected, the comparison will appear only the more exact.

The decorations were gorgeous and yet tasteful and the Royal guest is stated to have danced incessantly until half-past four in the morning.

It drove her almost mad to hear the child moaning and groaning, and calling out incessantly for water in a peevish, whining voice.

A week passed by, and during that time Captain Frazier, prowling incessantly about the neighborhood, watched carefully his opportunity to meet Jessie Bain.

While at work he smokes incessantly, and is so accustomed to the stimulating effects of tobacco that he cannot get along without it.

Tessa herself, too, is wearisome with her tears and her kisses, her blue eyes and baby face, so incessantly repeated and harped on.

Dubois having insinuated himself into the favor of his master in this manner, was incessantly engaged in studying how to preserve his position.

And thus by an infinite series of partial deaths, the atmosphere incessantly nourishes the universal life spread over the surface of the world.

Have you obtained the obtainable one, that is alone to be obtained, and are you set above the fears, that incessantly hunt after all mankind?

Their noise is very disagreeable: it is a creaking note, which, incessantly repeated, grates upon the ear, and becomes very teasing and unpleasant.

The roads were as bad as roads could be; and we rolled from side to side so incessantly, as to obviate all chance of sleeping.

Every national museum has its underground feeders, knows how to defeat the laws of other countries, and incessantly grows in spite of laws.

It seems to be certain, that from the first moment of his reformation, he incessantly practiced the industry which he so warmly recommends.

Along the open road, the former were harassed incessantly by rustic marksmen, who took deliberate aim from behind trees, or over stone fences.

While he was in the house he smoked his pipe incessantly and read some magazines which she had unpacked with some of her books.

She moved uneasily, and curtsied incessantly, waiting impatiently for a chance of putting in her word: and at last she found it.

Whilst they are waiting for it to come to maturity, the men are incessantly occupied in pulling up the weeds that overrun the plain.

She screamed and talked incessantly, and between whiles she muttered eagerly to herself, like one who is learning something off by heart.

Borrowed from an elevated spiritualism, incessantly tending towards the celestial worlds, these ideas were singularly appropriate to a nation at once warlike and commercial.

Donkeys after a time get so accustomed to being incessantly beaten that it has no effect, excepting to make them turn obstinate and sulky.

There was, indeed, a female something that incessantly bowed, and drew breath with a ferocity that drowned the hissing of the engine.

The count, in the height of the medley, fought like the meanest of his soldiers, exciting them incessantly, and urging them forward.

The Democracy warmly commended his sentiments and methods, and labored incessantly to prevent any diminution of his hold upon the public confidence.

While Samuel was parleying with the doctor through a window, the question ran incessantly through his mind: "What about telling the police?"

Never had we as many guns as now, and these guns had been bombarding the enemy's positions almost incessantly for ten days.

He was a burly young man, with a high complexion and a drooping blonde mustache, who smoked cheap cigarettes incessantly, and spat.

Came back the response; and then he continued his shouting, and the blows of that tireless whip fell incessantly upon the mules.

Clay, incessantly exerting himself to propagate his views, and, in consequence of his commanding influence, his efforts were crowned with gratifying success.

Then she pointed to the third, a sort of dwarf, with protruding, round, stupid eyes, which she rolled incessantly in all directions.

One felt at once the vibration of a strong personality, an incessantly active mind, a dynamic nervous energy, a Latin temperament intellectual and gay.

Yes, a small, thin voice came out of the fog that incessantly floated into my cone of light and was left behind in eddies.

The young gentleman began to lose patience during the course of this lecture, turning incessantly in his chair and wriggling backwards and forwards.

Harriman than of any other American empire builder that I have met, and like Harriman he seems to be incessantly bound up to the telephone.

And incessantly the rats gnawed, gnawed, and ripped at the wood beneath them until even that sound helped to soothe instead of alarm.

And her aspects and the points of view from which we may observe them change so incessantly that the greatest of us falters.

Somewhere in the top of a tall poplar, crowning the summit of a glaring white bluff, a locust twanged incessantly its strident string.

She had next to settle with the wife of her guide, who had besieged her the whole day, and incessantly petitioned for largesse.

We were always full; applications for rooms poured in incessantly, and when persons vacated their quarters, any change of mind made restitution impossible.

The moonless night was passed in extreme discomfort, owing to a deluge of rain which commenced early, and fell incessantly for many hours.

The prisoners take exercise by turns, and always alone, the warders being able from certain points of observation to follow their movements incessantly.

The breeders of birds and game incessantly damage, overthrow, and carry away the immense works which have occupied them for a whole season.

Alongside of these were larger cages, though small enough, of bamboo from whose interiors the strident notes of great green crickets came incessantly.

The rest of the day passed in tedious inaction Night fell, and the bow searchlights of the airship played incessantly upon the tramp.

I mourned incessantly, and that with my intense bodily sufferings soon brought me to death's door, but it was shorn of its sting.

Allow me, madame, once more to urge you to think of your health, the bad condition of which incessantly afflicts me and occupies my thoughts.

They gorged upon the scanty store of dried fish if they were not watched, and never caught more unless they were incessantly goaded.

She was acquiring a post-graduate knowledge of stage practice, supplying her mind as well as her muscles, like a pianist who practices incessantly.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to brood incessantly on abstract ideas, that never feel ennui.

In these colossal chambers the phosphorescent light from enormous radiators beats incessantly through and through the slowly, oscillating, vibrating, revolving soul matter.

All day the wireless sputtered incessantly aboard the flagship, while other ship commanders within radio distance listened to what was going on.

It opened and closed incessantly to admit those who gave up tickets, and disclosed, in misty perspective, a miscellaneous confusion of hot, flushed faces.

He began to get drowsy from the cold and knew he would perish if he did not labor incessantly to keep up his temperature.

Solicited incessantly by the considerations affecting its fears and desires, the human mind turns naturally away from the marvelous side of events.

They are incessantly arrested before the dramas, the disasters, the picturesque accidents, which assail one in the midst of this moving queen of cities.

He was uncouth and stupid, to be sure, but it was hard, she thought, that he should be so incessantly worried and jeered at.

Then, he commenced to watch her incessantly and she wished she could hide herself in order to avoid that cold eye, riveted on her.

The girls had been shut up for four years with young men who incessantly coveted them, and whom they must constantly outwit.

His nerves had lost much of their sensibility, and he no longer shrunk from the firebrands with which they incessantly touched him.

Then he commenced to watch her incessantly, and she wished she could hide herself in order to avoid that cold eye riveted on her.

The groans of the thousands of sick around us, the shrieks of the rotting ones in the gangrene wards rang incessantly in our ears.

Every eye was fixed on the opal, which continued spinning incessantly, darting its rays of red and blue, and yellow, and green.

His ordinary pale features were inflamed, his eyes seemed swollen by watching, and he incessantly wiped away the perspiration that stood on his forehead.

The thought of Denise suddenly came upon him, that thought which incessantly pierced him with a flame, like the shooting of an incurable pain.

Let us say to ourselves, let us proclaim incessantly, that shame, punishment, and ignominy have been attached to actions which in themselves are innocent.

These internal canals are incessantly traversed by streams of water, which enter through the minute, and are discharged through the larger orifices.

Our love, by its very purity, was incessantly renewed, with the same light of soul, the same unsullied transports of its first bloom.

In a country where men are incessantly occupied at their business or profession, the function of keeping up the level of culture devolves upon women.

All earthly glory had become to him fortuitous, uncertain and worthless, and he had kept only his iron sense of duty incessantly active.

He spoke to the fiddle and the fiddle spoke to him, probably about Chaldea, since the girl was almost incessantly in his thoughts.

Further away, in the deeper water, was a lurid cloud, incessantly torn in shreds of lightning, then fusing together again, once more to be rent.

Or, rather, she herself is incessantly answering, incessantly besetting me with her terrible alacrity for improvement, which is a softer name for destruction.

Whether I lay awake or dozed, my thoughts incessantly hovered about the mystery of these days, endeavored to overcome its fascination, and to see clearly.

The little retinue of the Proprietor flew incessantly over the fields and back again; the swarm round the Professor remained steadily by him.

What a complexion, what a charming little mouth, and what a delightful expression, changing incessantly from petulance to moving tenderness, in her eyes!

In the hard basaltic rock the swirling water has worn out three circular vats or cauldrons, in which the stream incessantly goes round.

While sitting at their sewing and at the same time watching their lamps and cooking the meat, they incessantly hum their favorite tunes.

He is ever compelled to draw near them, to return to them, to skim incessantly the hateful and prolific sea which threatens to engulf him.

The Nemesis was, during all this time, incessantly employed in carrying letters and despatches, as well as officers, from one place to another.

As our ship incessantly rises and plunges over these heavy swells, we become excessively weary of the ceaseless motion, even though no nausea is excited.

Yet all night long the lightning flashed incessantly, showing up every bush and rock on the river bank as clearly as at noonday.

Dogs, especially puppies, are subject to periodical short fits, in which they run about as if mad, barking incessantly, and with a querulous angry voice.

Nature places an unerring punishment upon the woman, who, by incessantly using every whim, scheme or artifice, finally succeeds in dominating her husband.

He talked incessantly for three hours, and kept the boys interested in what he had to say regarding a hunter and trapper's life.

These "best classes," with a monstrous presumption, airily proclaimed their superiority and incessantly harped upon the need of elevating and regenerating the masses.

It held a huge mace, which it whirled incessantly, giving such cruel and resounding blows upon the earth as to prevent all further entrance.

Reversion, in the ordinary sense of the word, acts so incessantly, that it evidently forms an essential part of the general law of inheritance.

With low cunning, the Terrestrials seemed to have ferreted out the identity of all his favorite dishes and kept serving them to him incessantly.

Whenever the tigers approached the edge of the forest, our dog, who before had barked incessantly, came howling to seek protection under the hammocks.

Clustering side by side, with their heads turned against the stream, they puff their cheeks out and in, rinsing their mouths incessantly.

He was incessantly inventing new stories to pique Marguerite's curiosity, and the old woman regularly opened the door of the alley at seven o'clock.

He talked incessantly, threatening no doubt and insulting the captive, and punctuating his invective with kicks that bruised the American's ribs sorely.

She folded her hands under her apron, and looking fearlessly at him, and incessantly moving her head, began to talk with him.