How To Use Incessantly In A Sentence
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He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth.
Vandover and the Brute
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The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing.
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I preserved this mutilated object with uncommon care, watching it almost incessantly day and night: expecting another exuviation which might be attended with interesting consequences, I felt much anxiety for its survivance.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
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Their name, which he had long avoided mentioning, was incessantly on his lips: but always the same, always inclined naturally and systematically, to have more strings than one to his bow, he appeared to incline alternately _for the younger branch, and for the reigning branch_.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
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Caught under by the breeze, the awnings of the fore-deck bellied upwards and collapsed slowly, and above their heavy flapping the gray stuff of Captain Whalley's roomy coat fluttered incessantly around his arms and trunk.
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He had brilliant darting eyes and talked incessantly.
The Crossing-Place
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Before his illumination, Rousseau's thoughts had turned incessantly upon his relation to his fellow men.
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He played the song incessantly, ignoring my pleas for mercy and grannyish objections to its author's seditious intent.
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Agents surround promising youngsters and talk incessantly about fame and fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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As it poured incessantly out of him, he noticed a bull across the field eyeing him interestingly.
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The media tribune was overflowing with hundreds of reporters, all drawn to an event that has been hyped incessantly since Phelps entered and qualified for the 200 free at the U.S. Olympic trials last month.
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Rain trickled incessantly down each man's face and glistened in dusty beads upon foreheads, clothing at last gave way to complete saturation, and water, collecting in pools until over ankle deep, oozed slushily in and out of the eyelet holes.
Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
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‘Typhoon’ ties all the elements into an expressionist's cloud - bright splashes and rough scratches, calls, Fernandez's elegiac guitar, heavy African polyrhythms and an incessantly looped vocal sample.
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The film is entirely dependent on pages of dialogue and long scenes filled with incessantly talking heads.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were many times when I envied the moral clarity of those priests as they tended their flocks of young believers, incessantly preaching the demands of sexual purity.
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In order to confront Iran, Reagan and Bush administrations had incessantly backed Saddam Hussein regardless of his suppressing the Kurd and developing NBC weapons.
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He has red hair, shouts incessantly and moves as though a colony of ants has invaded his tracksuit trousers.
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We find this fact embarrassing and we rush to deny its relevance, or we excuse our exclusionist practices by reminding ourselves, incessantly, ‘at least we are not like the Americans.’
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To the delight of late-night television comedians, President George H.W. Bush used to talk incessantly about “prudence,” but in fact the term is a deadly serious watchword for the “realist” school of foreign policy.
What Would Wilson Do?
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Lady Florimel wept incessantly for three days; on the fourth she looked out on the sea and thought it very dreary; on the fifth she found a certain gratification in hearing herself called the marchioness; on the sixth she tried on her mourning, and was pleased; on the seventh she went with the funeral and wept again; on the eighth came Lady Bellair, who on the ninth carried her away.
Malcolm
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Roman empire! how countless the nations which swarm forth, in mingling and indistinct hordes, constantly changing the geographical limits — incessantly confounding the natural boundaries!
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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The pleasure is perverse: the thrill of an incessantly thwarted chase.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can never thank her sufficiently for cutting out endless pages of songs and recitative by the melancholious old Hermit who, in the original version, was to commence the opera, and wander in and out of it incessantly.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
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If you go around incessantly spreading goodwill, you'll just annoy people.
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Once unthinkable, Washington's chatterers now talk of it incessantly.
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Sow physalis in heated propagator; plant out shallots; mulch blackcurrants and raspberries; tidy strawberry bed; finish compost trenches on allotment where squash will grow; weed incessantly.
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People who have true family values live by them, while deviant phonies incessantly talk about them.
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If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
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As a boy, the insides of my arms and the backs of my legs itched ferociously and incessantly.
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If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
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His natural wanderlust is fueled by a vain search for lasting good health and he travels incessantly through Europe, the United States and the South Pacific.
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singularity university is a google-backed school by and for the smartest people on earth who incessantly think about how to inter-disciplinarily solve humanity's largest challenges through giant leaps in technology. unfortunately, i can't prove it but this sounds awfully like the kind of organization that brought john connor back from the future to kill his mother, or a robot, or something. after all, you can't spell
The apartment broadcast
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Dido talked incessantly about herself and all I had to do, as I listened to the catalogue of her infirmities, was to exude sympathy.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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One of the noisome results of such compartmentalization is that relationship "experts" warn us incessantly, "If you have to talk, see a therapist.
Mr. Goodbar Redux
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Re: Hence, the benefits of a secular society, where we can incessantly dick with the intersection between the “nihilistic, unnatural, [and] antihuman” and the City of God, the better to make life in the here and now not suck.
Matthew Yglesias » Iceland Bans Strip Clubs
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When we have gone to sleep with a maddening toothache and are conscious of it only as a little girl whom we attempt, time after time, to pull out of the water, or as a line of Molière which we repeat incessantly to ourselves, it is a great relief to wake up, so that our intelligence can disentangle the idea of toothache from any artificial semblance of heroism or rhythmic cadence.
Swann's Way
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He had brilliant darting eyes and talked incessantly.
The Crossing-Place
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He incessantly joshes his son, once slugs him in the face with a vase, cracks terrible jokes, struts around in a tweed jacket, and generally makes a virtue out of insouciance and brio.
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He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians.
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She had scarcely completed these arrangements to her entire satisfaction, when the friend arrived with a whity – brown parcel — flat and three – cornered — containing sundry small adornments which were to be put on upstairs, and which the friend put on, talking incessantly.
Nicholas Nickleby
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But it's also a rustic idyll - an extensively renovated old style estate cottage in the middle of a copse of tall tree where rooks caw incessantly in the Spring sunshine.
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Smith seemed to be in the highest spirits, talking incessantly, describing his sudden descent on Firtop Farm and his interview with the farmer so racily that his mother laughed gently, and even Kate, for all her anxiety, smiled.
Round the World in Seven Days
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Once in Italy, he drew incessantly, copying antique statuary as well as more recent work by Michelangelo and Raphael.
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Out on the stoop a bunch of men were sitting hunched over their six packs and a dog was incessantly barking.
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He was incessantly acquisitive, and by the early twentieth century, Mellon had interests not only in coal, steel, and railroads but also in the new industries of aluminum (he owned Alcoa), chemicals (he owned Koppers and Carborundum), and petroleum (he owned Gulf Oil).
The Dragon’s Trail
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Although the young people ragged and tangoed incessantly, she rarely danced, and then it was with the young men.
CHAPTER XIX
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The rain was beating down incessantly on the tin roof.
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I must shower first, and then I shall clip my toenails (I have a hypochondriac's fear of ingrown toenails, so I manicure my feet incessantly).
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His non-stop soundtrack of incessantly ringing bells and gongs is itself enough to drive anyone batty.
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When a dog gets and starts to snap at you incessantly, you can shoot it.
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They forgot that the charge of "abolitionism," which was incessantly hurled at the Republican party, was thus by no means wanting in essential truth, and that when the slaveholders were vanquished in the election of Mr. Lincoln, their appeal from the ballot to the bullet was the logical result of their insane devotion to slavery, and their conviction that nothing could save it but the dismemberment of the Republic.
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872
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People who have true family values live by them, while deviant phonies incessantly talk about them.
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Which words being ended, she withdrew her selfe towards the middest of the Tarras, despairing of escaping (with life) from the heates violence; and not once onely, but infinite times beside (among her other grievous extreamities) she was ready to dye with drought, bemoaning incessantly her dolorous condition.
The Decameron
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On bad days I expect heaps of sympathy and whinge incessantly in the vain hope that it will be forthcoming.
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It cost all of two dirhams to buy and I can still remember trying to read it incessantly while my dad dragged me from fish booth to fish booth.
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A homeless man refuses to walk or use the lavatory, and swears incessantly at the staff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Agents surround promising youngsters and talk incessantly about fame and fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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The married couple argued incessantly and finally decided to separate because they are incompatible.
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He had brilliant darting eyes and talked incessantly.
The Crossing-Place
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He nodded to himself incessantly as if his spinal column had been magically replaced with a spring.
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When a dog gets old and starts to snap at you incessantly, you can shoot it.
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Grant me melody, O my God, to hymn and recite and honour the exploits of Thy passion -- endurer and martyr, that I may harmoniously laud the great in suffering (mentioned by name), who ever was the vanquisher of passions, great in piety and is now shining forth in the midst of the choir of martyrs, with whom and a multitude of angels, he doth incessantly hymn
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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Mining operations were being carried on with the greatest activity; coal was being piled incessantly into the trucks, which went in hundreds to empty themselves into the corves at the bottom of the shaft.
The Underground City
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Was it her simper, or her settled indifference to ideas, or the gaudy ring she wore on her right forefinger and twisted incessantly?
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Inside purple and green mist swirled around incessantly in pinwheels.
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Whernside House and Settle and the aerograph apparatus at the observatory were working almost incessantly till dawn, sending and receiving messages between this remote moorland district and London and the seat of war, as well as Bolton and Pittsburg.
The World Peril of 1910
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All the while, four-year-old Matthew was bouncing on the couch, furtively strumming the guitar he wasn't supposed to touch and talking incessantly.
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Having, for fifteen years," says the latter author, "incessantly studied the habits of lignivorous insects in one of the best wooded regions of
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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The ground which he had passed over was a field covered with clumps of low trees; it was easy to see by its disc-like shape that it had been formed by successive alluvia, at the expense of the other shore, which had been incessantly worn away by the stream.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Our planet is incessantly bombarded with a rain of cosmic rays, charged stable particles, such as protons and electrons.
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Did they complain incessantly about it?
Computing
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I love it,, we need to make fun of this commie dirtbag more often,, the "downlow" Obama needs to become the first thing the average person thinks about when he puts his face on our TV sets just as DU smeared Bush incessantly.
Latest Articles
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Miss Augusta had with the overseer on religion, and many other subjects; of one jackeroo who gabbed never-endingly about his great relations at home; another who incessantly clattered about spurs, whips, horses, and sport; and the third one -- Joe Archer -- who talked literature and trash with me.
My Brilliant Career
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The film is entirely dependent on pages of dialogue and long scenes filled with incessantly talking heads.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spanish princes, Abderamus was obliged to keep numerous armies incessantly on foot, to support a naval force, frequently to hire stipendiaries from Africa, and to fortify and preserve in a state of defence the ever-endangered fortresses on his frontiers, it is hardly possible to comprehend how his revenues sufficed for the supply of such immense and varied demands.
History of the Moors of Spain
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I follow her down the staircase into the garden for the tulsi pooja, incessantly ringing the bell in my hand.
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It must surely be some kind of guard to talk so incessantly without pause or prompting?
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She toyed with them incessantly as she typed up the daily status and safety reports.
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Information abounds - piste maps are dispensed beside lift queues, weather forecasts are posted everywhere and broadcast incessantly.
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It seems like yesterday that he was the wakeful baby who nursed incessantly and rarely slept through the night.
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These microbes, like many others, continuously mineralize organic substances, and thus exhibit themselves as the indispensable agents of the movement of the matter that incessantly circulates from the mineral to the organic world, and _vice versa_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884
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the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants
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After waiting so long for one genuine piece of heart-stopping action to awaken the masses from their slumber, chances arrived incessantly.
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As she refused course after course, a single phrase drummed incessantly through her tired brain.
Parrot & Co.
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Hence, the benefits of a secular society, where we can incessantly dick with the intersection between the “nihilistic, unnatural, [and] antihuman” and the City of God, the better to make life in the here and now not suck.
Matthew Yglesias » Iceland Bans Strip Clubs
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Paradise enow moratorium nub aural whilom incessantly heliograph
Language
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You will not find meatloaf specials drowned in flour-based gravy and served with lumpy mashed potatoes and tasteless, overcooked green beans in these places or geezers sitting around drinking watery American sock java while yapping incessantly about inanities but what you will find is great and innovative cuisine.
Good Places to Eat
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They will sip sherbets, drink syrupy tea, smoke kalians, and gossip incessantly.
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We chattered incessantly, scared by the silence.
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Agents surround promising youngsters and talk incessantly about fame and fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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A homeless man refuses to walk or use the lavatory, and swears incessantly at the staff.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, in the early days of becoming a meditator, it was extremely difficult to shut down the mind with its propensity to chatter almost incessantly.
Steve McSwain: 10 Mantras For A More Meaningful New Year
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She was that same blonde headed girl who was gabbing incessantly about Matt at tennis Regionals the previous Friday.
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In a cage across the room, I noticed canaries that chattered incessantly to each other and seemed to sing at my presence in protest of my invading their territory.
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Did they complain incessantly about it?
Computing
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Why he called her his flutterer no one ever knew, unless it was because her ribbons were incessantly fluttering; but, had he called her his shadow, the name would have been more appropriate.
Madame Midas
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The crowd seated in the bleachers - it was a full house - was incessantly loud and obstreperous.
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He smokes almost incessantly … It is now no uncommon thing to see a man in evening dress smoking in a brougham with a lady on their way to opera, theatre, or dinner engagement.
Smoking Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade
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But it must be said that all this came better and more happily in a fruitful and lonely island, where nothing presented itself to me save smiling pictures, where nothing recalled saddening memories, where the fellowship of the few dwellers there was gentle and obliging, without being exciting enough to busy me incessantly, where, in short, I was free to surrender myself all day long to the promptings of my taste or to the most luxurious indolence ....
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
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The pleasure is perverse: the thrill of an incessantly thwarted chase.
Times, Sunday Times
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The battle armour he always wore clanked incessantly against the scabbard of the broadsword at his waist.
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Actually Michael Winner, hunched over the keyboard, typing incessantly about my bristols?
Got to get this off my chest | Victoria Coren
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Working the jaws incessantly, uselessly and unbeautifully is an effort to deceive the body into the belief that it is being sufficiently well fed when it isn't.
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Agents surround promising youngsters and talk incessantly about fame and fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had come here to reject William and instead she was daydreaming about Arthur and watching with a growing sense of repulsion as William chewed incessantly, like a cow with a mouthful of cud.
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Agents surround promising youngsters and talk incessantly about fame and fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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The music was some catchy tunes by Richard Rodgers that my friend and I were humming incessantly!
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It is these Right Wing talk show hosts who incessantly revile the federal bureaucrats as devils incarnate issuing unnecessary economy-strangling regulations merely to solidify their own continued employment.
Edward Flattau: Environmental Masochism
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However, by dint of energy and ambition, the stockkeeper triumphed over these difficulties, incessantly renewed though they were.
In Search of the Castaways
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Having, for fifteen years," says the latter author, "incessantly studied the habits of lignivorous insects in one of the best wooded regions of France, I have observed facts enough to feel myself warranted in expressing my conclusions, which are: that insects in general -- I am trees in sound health, and they assail those only whose normal conditions and functions have been by some cause impaired.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
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The plane's engine hummed incessantly in my ears, while we read of the mission files again, making sure that the details were memorized.
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For the same reason was a camp or leaguer of old called castrum, as if they would have said castum; because the soldiers, wrestlers, runners, throwers of the bar, and other such-like athletic champions as are usually seen in a military circumvallation, do incessantly travail and turmoil, and are in a perpetual stir and agitation.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
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The pleasure is perverse: the thrill of an incessantly thwarted chase.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lady Florimel wept incessantly for three days; on the fourth she looked out on the sea and thought it very dreary; on the fifth she found a certain gratification in hearing herself called the marchioness; on the sixth she tried on her mourning and was pleased; on the seventh she went with the funeral and wept again; on the eighth came Lady Bellair, who on the ninth carried her away.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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Ego - delusion is the foremost of the unwholesome kamma of old and accompanies beings incessantly.
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You practise, you train incessantly just for such climactic moments of extremity, to be asked the crucial questions, and then to deliver.
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Cambridge cream cheese: then a ride over hill and dale: then spudding up some weeds from the grass: and then, coming in, I sit down to write to you, my sister winding red worsted from the back of a chair, and the most delightful little girl in the world chattering incessantly.
The Bed-Book of Happiness
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But what about the TV commercials that incessantly bombard living rooms across America?
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The medical profession complained incessantly about the rules, and in lectures, articles and books alienists argued that they alone possessed the necessary qualifications to judge criminal responsibility.
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In 2008, six years after my first pediatrician insisted that Eden wasn't vomiting incessantly and allergically to his milk-based formula, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a report defining Eden as an infant at risk based on our family history of allergies.
Susan Weissman: Child Food Allergies: What Causes Them?
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Herein two journeymen incessantly chip, while other two journeymen, who face each other, incessantly saw stone; dipping as regularly in and out of their sheltering sentry – boxes, as if they were mechanical figures emblematical of
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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As the person answerable (at least in part) for the Lemonheads cover of "Luka" - as I remember it, I started strumming it incessantly on acoustic during the long drives on tour … and by the time we got back to Boston, we had decided to add it to the set-I can't tell you how gratifying it is to hear that the author actually liked our version.
Expecting Rain
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Sordello, lured incessantly towards abstract ideals, lost in their contemplation, is smitten, like Aprile, into helplessness by the multitudinousness of the images he sees, refuses to descend into real life and submit to its limitations, is driven into the slothfulness of that dreaming imagination which is powerless to embody its images in the actual song.
The Poetry Of Robert Browning
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They groom so incessantly that they develop great bald spots and skin lesions - and other poor mice housed with them also lose their hair.
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And, over time, it dulled the pain of his alleged infidelity and the need to dwell incessantly on why he had felt the need to stray.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her self-concept was so damaged that she projected it onto them, incessantly criticizing and undermining them.
The 7
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The snake snapped in their direction but still remained in his defensive coil, ready to strike, his tail now rattling incessantly.
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For a long time, central and local governments in Taiwan have fought incessantly over taxes, or a bigger share of the cake.
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The habit of virtue creates for him no wants but those which virtue itself suffices to satisfy; it is thus that _virtue is always its own peculiar reward_, that it remunerates itself with all the advantages which it incessantly procures for others.
The System of Nature, Volume 1
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Agents surround promising youngsters and talk incessantly about fame and fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jack reappeared moments later, the manageress still talking incessantly to him.
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At night other sounds are heard, less agreeable to the ear: the shrill "chirrup" of cicadas and tree-toads ringing so incessantly, that only when they cease do you become conscious of their existence; the dull "gluck-gluck" of the great bullfrog; the sharp cries of the heron and _qua-bird_; and the sepulchral screech of the great horned owl.
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
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I'd also blabber about how awful Castro is if I wanted to get elected in Miami and yammer incessantly about the fantasy of clean coal if I was running in WV.
Democratic Senate hopeful takes hard line on Obama agenda
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His non-stop soundtrack of incessantly ringing bells and gongs is itself enough to drive anyone batty.
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It seems like yesterday that he was the wakeful baby who nursed incessantly and rarely slept through the night.
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The Countesse had scarce made an ende of her tale, but one came to tell them that the Tables were couered for dinner: the king well fedde with Loue, dined for that time very soberly, and not able to eate but vppon amorous dishes, did caste his lokes inconstantly here and there, and still his eyes threw the last loke vppon that part of the table where the Countesse sate, meaninge thereby to extinguish the boiling flames, which incessantly did burne him, howbeit by thinking to coole them, he further plonged himselfe therein.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Similarly, the British conjured North Indian products as continually flowing overland westward to the collection point of Ludiana, then down the Sutlej river south to Mithenkote, from where the Lohanis would incessantly transport and market the goods in Afghanistan and Central Asia.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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It rained incessantly for the whole two weeks.
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Boats cross incessantly and cost only a few cents per ride.
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Did they complain incessantly about it?
Computing
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He incessantly picked at this hanging thread and, in the process, unravelled the whole tapestry the physicists of the enlightenment had put together.
Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw – review
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I guess it could be the infinite amount of raindrops that incessantly keep dropping onto me that sends me into this light bout of dizziness.
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She has been worriting me incessantly about a new chapter which, unfortunately, I do not have written.
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Now no one is now allowed on the grass and concentrating on the cricket is almost impossible as the sozzled Mexican-wavers leap up and down incessantly.
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But when Bloomberg is gone, New Yorker's will have the chance to elect someone who is not incessantly and metronomically invoking the business model of governance.
Alec Baldwin: New York And Me
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How stupid are YOU that you think we wouldnt notice this while you snivelled incessantly about our insults.
Think Progress » Limbaugh compares Pelosi to a terrorist for saying passing health care is more important than re-election.
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With countless bends along the Thames, whistles and hooters would sound incessantly day and night as the ships passed.
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Outside, the crickets chirrup incessantly in the humid Indian night.
