Like a sullen creditor he stands, careless that every man's hand is against him, relentlessly following his prey, willing that all others should wait his time and theirs, intent only that this night shall have its own.
But such guests heeded not, pressing relentlesslyin upon our trembling hearth, when lo!
For the Scotsman is the most sentimental among men, stubbornly and maliciously and relentlessly sentimental.
One of the earlier performances of the National Assembly of 1789 was to sweep away relentlessly the administrative system of the Old Régime and to substitute therefor an order which was all but entirely new.
It was the part of the Tudors to enforce relentlessly the one and to foster systematically the other.
Hamblin, an actor and manager of the early half of the present century, who came from England in 1825 to star in "Shakespeare," was followed by fire even more relentlesslythan Miss Claxton has been.
They were roused from sleep, surprised by treacherous foes, and relentlessly murdered.
They were forbidden to duel, and dared not disobey the law after they had seen the guilty brought relentlessly to the scaffold.
The noise of the engines grew louder: the vessel was bearing down upon him relentlessly like a sleuthhound.
They could not stop, even if they would, for the close ranks behind pressed relentlessly upon the foremost.
But he'll probably get over that; he's very young; he thinks he has to be relentlessly literary now.
The affair, if he could understand it at all, would shock him; he must blame it as relentlessly as Northwick's own child would if her love did not save him.
The defenceless Spaniards were relentlessly assailed by the infuriate mob which was let loose upon them by the insurgent chiefs.
It must be undertaken soberly, carried out firmly and justly, and relentlessly followed to the very end.
If all that a man has or is, if his death and his daily life, are wholly and relentlessly at the service of his ideal, without hesitancy or reservation, then he will achieve his object.
Her heart beat savagely and loud--so loud that she heard it above the din of the storm; and cruel painrelentlessly stabbed her heaving side, while her breath was fetched in quick respirations.
The fingers of the old clock slowly crept along the dial-plate towards four, the hour so relentlessly enforced for interments for half a century by the sexton, who was now about to lay away his own wife in the greedy maw of the grave.
As in the last years it hasrelentlessly concentrated its energies upon the Great War, now through the next decades and generations it must as steadfastly hold them to the Great Reconciliation.
This man was the German reincarnation of Javert, the police inspector who hung so relentlessly upon the flanks of Jean Valjean.
Mrs. Quirk went so far as to scold Molly relentlessly for her expressions of dislike, but the girl only laughed at her: "Sure, you are too young and innocent.
Samuel Quirk marched relentlessly into the room, his face showing the most determined incredulity it could assume.
Those who lived on injustice and untruth would willingly have destroyed him because he exposed them relentlessly to public odium; the honest and straightforward placed him on a pedestal as a just man.
Her nib flew relentlessly over the sheets, but the letter was disconnected and dry.
Under the administration of Iemitsu this unflinching attitude towards wrongdoers was maintained more relentlessly than ever.
Twice the frail little boat spun around and then seized by a sudden eddy in the current was borne swiftly and relentlessly towards the rapids below.
I never thought to ask him about Minervy," occurred to her while she was relentlessly dragging pale, fleshly fishworms from the loose black soil of Marthy's onion bed.
Then she tore up a woolen undershirt she found hanging on a nail and bore relentlessly down upon him.
So Billy Louise went away to school and never knew whose money had made it possible to go, and Marthy worked harder and drove Jase more relentlessly to make up that fifty dollars.
He hired a man for a month--one of those migratory individuals who works for a week or a month in one place and then wanders on till his money is spent--and he drove that man as relentlessly as he drove himself.
Every sympathizer with Germany pursued the President relentlessly with insistent demand that England should be brought to book for the unreasonable character of the blockade which she was carrying on against our commerce on the high seas.
At present she adopted the manner of a patience that nothing could quite exhaust; she was polite and formal, relentlessly correct in position.
The wave clings to the shore, but the inexorable ebb draws it down relentlessly into the deep.
He is relentlessly forcing a democracy of sex upon woman; industrially, mentally, and sentimentally.
Every now and then--not often, and always suddenly--a gust of passion seemed to sweep through the mask under which she relentlesslyhid her more spontaneous self.
The way they had taken was scarcely wide enough for the carriage--branches whipped their faces, and they were bumped relentlesslyover the rough ground.
The poor and weak gorelentlessly to the wall; innocence and humble ignorance are crushed by experienced vice, the butterfly is singed by the flame; there is little joy, little peace.
In Shakespeare they are shadowy and broken; in Wordsworth they relentlessly improve the occasion.
Christ was very critical, and relentlesslyexposed those of whom he disapproved, but he was never critical of weakness.
And then the little lives cutrelentlessly short, how does that fit in?
These very persons who would have gouged their neighbors' eyes to gain ten sous, lost all presence of mind and discrimination before suspicious looking girls in restaurants who pitilessly harassed and relentlessly fleeced them.
He had learned, too, not to pale with nausea when, as was their wont of many centuries, the dwellers in this uncouth town relentlessly pursued their custom of expectorating upon his floor immediately they entered and stood before him.
Night after night her sleepless pillow was wet with bitter tears of remorse, when the accusing angel stood before her and relentlessly revealed each act of shameful meanness, of cruel selfishness, of sordid immorality in her wasted life.
The cruel strokes of labor and poverty were relentlessly erasing the softness of youth.
You haven't told me how I am different," she relentlessly persisted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relentlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
