The hardships of the journey, without adequate equipment or provisions, and the incessant danger of attack by the Indians increased petty jealousies into open mutiny.
The minds of these half-nomadic and dull-witted savages were filled with gross superstitions, and their senses had been brutalized by the incessant torments of their Iroquois enemies.
Navigation on the St. Lawrence was dangerous in those days before buoys and beacons came to mark the shoal waters, and the risk of capture at sea during the incessant wars with England was considerable.
In Utah was danger from the Utes and farther westward from the Paiutes, but expeditions went well armed and exercisedincessant watchfulness.
Pickets were kept out and care was incessant day and night.
The first is revelation, always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or incessant study can ever familiarize, but which must always leave the inquirer stupid with wonder.
Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
A little fish, rice, and vegetables, withincessant tea, is the national dietary.
The fine polish usually seen on lacquer work is not actually the result of the composition applied, but is produced by incessant polishing.
There is incessant restless experiment, incessant speculation about aesthetics, incessant effort to apply them to the actual production of art, in fact to exert the conscious human will upon art as it has never been exerted before.
There was only a dull, incessant aching that was becoming, already, an acknowledged part of her.
During the days of poverty these three formed his sole, incessant reading.
The soft incessant rush of wind blew her heavy hair back from a forehead spiritually pure and white.
From the smoking-room an incessant clinking, as of fairy castanets, fretted the ears of feminine curiosity.
The outer wall is solid, built in horizontal courses, with a slight batter, and decorated by vertical grooves, which at all hours of the day diversify the surface with an incessantplay of light and shade.
She was on the Rhine at Mayence, tired out with incessant travelling, and most anxious about her sister.
Persecution was incessantunder succeeding popes, Paul III, Julius III, Paul IV and Pius IV.
But I was rewarded after a week of incessant toil by producing an octangular stylet, each side one and one-half inches in length, and the whole tapering into a fine sharp point.
To many Christians all life seems to be one incessant miracle.
No doubt the brazen sea and the movable caldrons were in incessant requisition, and there were provisions for vast storages of water.
Incidental allusions in the annals of his son show that Omri was engaged in incessant wars against Syria.
But they are surrounded by the incessant agitation of parties, which attempt to gain their co-operation and to avail themselves of their support.
They shook hands, and Smith was just about to jump into his seat when there came the sound of galloping horses, and the incessantclanging of a bell.
Ever since he came on leave the weather had been abominable: high wind, incessant rain, all the elements conspiring to prevent the enjoyment of his hobby.
They decided to fight, which they did notwithstanding the incessant enemy bombardment and rifle fire.
An incessant artillery fire blended with gas shells prefaced two bitter attacks both of which the Americans withstood.
Besides these attacks by German machines against England and Paris, there were also incessantraids on French cities near the front.
I took it, and laughed, when he told me that there was only a shilling to pay for a quarter's incessant scientific manipulation.
I was instrumental in procuring for him a tolerably voluminous body of this sort of material, as Mr Huth was indifferent to it, and among much that was of inferior account, from the incessant absorption of valuable MSS.
Then all the chagrin, inquietude, and fears of Alfred Pipelet were awakened in thinking of the inconceivable and incessant pursuits of the author.
Thus, this incessant regret, joined to other griefs, makes us fear for her reason.
An incessant bustle went on, to and fro between these rooms and the great library, and the tables were covered with rolls and tablets containing ancient prophecies, horoscopes and potent exorcisms.
Everyone is on duty always, and despite the hot sun and incessant labor, all are in first-rate [Sidenote: Demolitions of cover outside city gates.
His pole was at work every foot of the way, guiding, staying, holding that incessant skid.
But now they were too loud, too strong to be any longer ignored, and their incessant pleading found an almost ready ear.
Of the factories and foundries that put this iron in shape you get no hint; here the ships rise as if they sprouted from the soil, without waste or litter, but with anincessant din.
At Alloway there was a shilfa for every tree, and its hurried and incessant notes met and intersected each other from all directions every moment of the day, like wavelets on a summer pool.
Unfortunately, owing to his incessant conflicts and to the trivialities to which his pen and tongue were so prone, this better side of his character did not emerge as fully as it deserved.
His incessant indulgence in such abuse calls for some examination into its nature and the mental state of which it was a product.
Some days I hardly budge from one position, and can with difficulty force myself to leave my table; at other times I feel the need of incessant movement.
His incessant talk reminded me of a mill-wheel, and I felt as though all the flour was blowing into my eyes.
You walked for miles; you took to cooking; and at night, having wearied your body out with incessant work, you tried to lull your brain by reading novels.
But the most serious offence which the book commits is not its omission of important facts, or its intolerable dilution of unimportant ones, or its misapprehension of the whole subject, but its incessant vulgarity.
After two days of incessant fighting, and an intervening night spent in repairing the defences, the valour of the defenders prevailed.
Thackeray was guilty of frequent 'asides,' but they were only outbreaks of cynicism or of pathos; incessant eruptions of psychology are less pleasing, if not more inartistic.
