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Example sentences for "perpetually"

Lexicographically close words:
perpetration; perpetrator; perpetrators; perpetual; perpetuall; perpetuam; perpetuate; perpetuated; perpetuates; perpetuating
  1. This was done, and they formally subscribed the terms under which Dom Manuel and the descendants of Dom Manuel were to hold Poictesme perpetually in fief to Horvendile.

  2. The plots of Mary were perpetually confused by intrigues of priestly emissaries, who interfered with the schemes of Spain and mixed in the interests of the Guises.

  3. Others were perpetually at feud with their own subjects, and thus gave an opportunity to some neighbour to intervene on behalf of one or the other party, with the same ultimate result.

  4. To both our Lord perpetually appealed, and His apostles after Him, and those who have followed them.

  5. But what would Paul, and what would the other Apostles have done, had they seen Peter perpetually taking the lead, and exercising the power of a head, without any special title thereto?

  6. Critics and philosophers are perpetually using both these tests.

  7. Wrapped in an ancient dressing-gown, his throat smothered beneath flannel, he sat in an easy chair, facing the fire, whose coals he perpetually reproved with a frown.

  8. Perpetually he questioned me about insanity, and wanted to know what treatment I would give him if his mind went.

  9. Enough light entered from the front to draw an ashen glow from the acid which he held at his side perpetually ready.

  10. Perpetually descending to actions which might seem to mark a mind diseased through all its faculties, he had nevertheless an exquisite sensibility, both for the natural and the moral sublime, for every graceful and every lofty conception.

  11. Fielding thought Richardson a solemn prig; and Richardson perpetually expressed contempt and disgust for Fielding's lowness.

  12. He is perpetually telling us that he cannot understand something in the text which is as plain as language can make it.

  13. Mr. Montagu perpetually repeats that it was their interest to sacrifice Bacon.

  14. Mr. Croker is perpetually stopping us in our progress through the most delightful narrative in the language, to observe that really Dr.

  15. But, like them, it is grotesque and extravagant, and perpetually violates even that conventional probability which is essential to the effect of works of art.

  16. Its indecency, though perpetually such as is condemned not less by the rules of good taste than by those of morality, is not, in our opinion, so disgraceful a fault as its singularly inhuman spirit.

  17. Those writers show so much acuteness and force of mind in arguing on their wretched data, that a modern reader is perpetually at a loss to comprehend how such minds came by such data.

  18. Hugh Miller, whose natural gifts for geological research were chronically turned to confusion by his orthodox bias, was repeatedly so assailed, when in point of fact he was perpetually tampering with the facts to salve the Scriptures.

  19. He is a good figure and perpetually surprises us with his keen foresight and disciplinary power.

  20. The Captain called perpetually for more drink, and higher stakes, and lost almost every throw.

  21. She must be silly and vain, and will pretty surely therefore be fond of dress; and she must, disguise it as she will, be perpetually miserable and brooding over her fall, which will cause her to be violent and quarrelsome.

  22. Hayes would now allow no one to make his bed or enter his room; and Wood could hear him through the panels fidgeting perpetually to and fro, opening and shutting of chests, and clinking of coin.

  23. A man doth not like to have his wife's sins flung in his face, nor to be perpetually bullied in his own house by such a fiery sprig as that.

  24. I have spoken of a certain interpretation of the matter or subject of a work of art with the form of it, a condition realised absolutely only in music, as the condition to which every form of art is perpetually aspiring.

  25. For he had been virtually chained to the desk, perpetually working, imprisoned in a London lodging, owing to the literal lack of the means of locomotion.

  26. He was especially annoyed by Madame Belenitsine, who kept perpetually staring at him through her eye-glass.

  27. He became irritated by the Moscow student's enthusiasm, so perpetually on the boil, so continually ready for use.

  28. Properly speaking, he lived perpetually in a state of nature, and with his mode of existence the necessity for self-defence floated daily before his eyes.

  29. He was constantly worrying about trifles, perpetually taking offence with nothing, and would spend whole days in discussing some trivial point of etiquette, in the breach of which, he conceived himself aggrieved.

  30. It was most important that she should not give way too perpetually to her grief.

  31. He was perpetually tormenting himself about his little girl's future, which seemed more dimly perplexing now than it had ever appeared in Oakley Street, when the Lincolnshire property was a far-away dream, perhaps never to be realised.

  32. If Mary learned difficult lessons with surprising rapidity, Mrs. Marchmont plied her with even yet more difficult lessons, thus keeping the spur perpetually in the side of this heavily-weighted racer on the road to learning.

  33. Nature is the universal playmate, perpetually parodying herself in miniature for the benefit of those who love to amuse themselves with her toys.

  34. It is a sweet-smelling incense that burns perpetually before the shrine of vanity.

  35. But under a democratic government people do not like to be perpetually bothering about law and order, as one of the older and stronger devils pointed out to Jurgen.

  36. And the beautiful dark woman shrugged, and marveled why he need perpetually be bothering over the doings of common sailors.

  37. You are always seeking out the people who endeavor to be upright and straightforward, and you are perpetually laying plans to divert these people.

  38. Radowitz in his misery and pain--Falloden on the Cherwell path, defending himself by those passionate retorts upon her of which she could not but admit the partial justice--by these images she was perpetually haunted.

  39. But he was pale, and his eyes frowned perpetually under his splendid brows.

  40. A new statute, to be perpetually incorporated with the law of England, was regarded as no light matter.

  41. Faults indeed against the rules of grammar, as well as unusual idioms, perpetually occur in the best writers of the Merovingian period, such as Gregory of Tours; while charters drawn up by less expert scholars deviate much further from purity.

  42. In one so highly endowed by nature, and so consummate by instruction, we may well sympathise with a resentment which exile and poverty rendered perpetually fresh.

  43. Men living upon their estates among their tenantry, whom they welcomed in their halls, and whose assistance they were perpetually needing in war and civil frays, would hardly have permitted such a barrier to obstruct their intercourse.

  44. For we cannot fairly consider as part of our ancient constitution what the parliament was perpetually remonstrating against, and the statute-book is full of enactments to repress.

  45. First of all came the Grand Vizier, a tall, dry man with rounded projecting shoulders; his head was constantly on the move and his eyes peered now to the right and now to the left as if he were perpetually watching and examining something.

  46. But the approaching horseman rode his steed as oddly as only Hungarian csikosok[10] can do, for he bobbed perpetually from the right to the left, and dodged backwards and forwards in the most aggravating manner.

  47. The black woman of the South was left perpetually in a state of hereditary darkness and rudeness.

  48. When others were there he often spoke to me and his eyes perpetually followed my slightest motion.

  49. His good star perpetually shone upon him; a reputation had never before been made so rapidly: it was universal.

  50. It reads: "Dante in his Purgatorio describes a grifon as remaining unchanged but his reflection in the eyes of Beatrice as perpetually varying (Purg.

  51. For the sympathy that I desired must be so pure, so divested of influence from outward circumstances that in the world I could not fail of being balked by the gross materials that perpetually mingle even with its best feelings.

  52. That is the most dangerous gulph on which you perpetually totter; but you must reassure your steps, and take hope to guide you.

  53. Which is also true of war (Socrates replied); cities are perpetually undertaking war and then making peace again.

  54. And to entertain an audience perpetually with humour, is to carry them from the conversation of gentlemen, and treat them with the follies and extravagancies of Bedlam.

  55. Fortune, indeed, has perpetually crowned your undertakings with success, but she has only waited on your valour, not conducted it.

  56. So dangerous a thing it is to admit a poet into your family, that you can never afterwards be free from the chiming of ill verses, perpetually sounding in your ears, and more troublesome than the neighbourhood of steeples.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perpetually" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    always; cease; constantly; continually; daily; endlessly; eternally; ever; hourly; incessantly; infinitely; interminably; invariably; perennially; permanently; perpetually; rapidly; regularly; rigidly; steadily