To be sure, there was not much else he could do; yet he deserves credit for unremitting industry and pluck.
The French forces were inadequate to defend their works; but it is to be observed that they were driven with unremitting energy, and that to this promptness the British owed their ability to hold the position.
In vain he addressed the patriotism of the people; already the fountain had been dried up by his incessant wars and the unremitting demands he had made upon the blood and treasure of the land.
Our numbers had been diminished by the enemy's fire, but particularly by sickness, and the strength and spirits of those in the works were much exhausted by the fatigue of constant watching and unremitting duty.
By submitting to the brutality of his master with a servile resignation, whilst, at the same time, he devoted the most unremitting attention to his business, he recommended himself to his confidence, and was taken into partnership.
After a year of this unremitting labor, he left the mills.
It requires unremitting watchfulness, however, to keep all this together, for loafers are rife in these parts.
The regime of status inculcates anunremitting and very nice discrimination and observance of distinctions of personal superiority and inferiority.
One does not "make much of a showing" in the eyes of the large majority of the people whom one meets with, except by unremitting demonstration of ability to pay.
But the preaching of thrift and self-help, unremitting as it is, is not producing an appreciable effect.
Her life thenceforth was one of unremitting bounty to society, administered with as much skill and prudence as benevolence.
Five-and-thirty years of unremitting secret bounty like this must make up a great amount of human happiness: but this was only one of a wide variety of methods of doing good.
Above all, it is consoling to know that she who so long outlived her only child was blessed with the unremittingand tender care of her granddaughter.
From unremitting attention to the object of his enthusiasm, coinciding with the influence of revolutionary disturbances, his imagination was greatly heated, his sleep was interrupted, and at length a complete derangement took place.
But, with severe labor and unremitting perseverance, I at length met with entire success in all my preparations.
Macleod has taken the most active interest in everything relating to the welfare of the city, while the affairs of his own parish have afforded him a source of unremitting care and anxiety.
To his unremitting labor in this enterprise he has sacrificed personal comfort and convenience, and we fear, shortened his days by his labors and exposure in bringing the work to completion.
His life was spared to witness only the commencement of this prosperity, nor can it be doubted, that his close application, and unremitting efforts to forward the work shortened his life materially.
He began life with few advantages, save that of honesty of purpose and unflinching morality, and a determination to succeed, if unremitting effort would secure that end.
In the Winter of 1866, in compliance with his physician's advice, he took a journey south for the benefit of his health, which had been impaired by his unremitting devotion to business.
The salient characteristic of the barbarian culture is an unremitting emulation and antagonism between classes and between individuals.
Therefore the latter-day upper-class canons of taste do not so consistently insist on an unremitting demonstration of expensiveness and a strict exclusion of the appearance of thrift.
The only practicable means of impressing one's pecuniary ability on these unsympathetic observers of one's everyday life is an unremitting demonstration of ability to pay.
It would seem at first sight that the result of such an unremitting struggle to attain the beautiful in dress should be a gradual approach to artistic perfection.
The battle being thus begun, was continued with unremitting fury.
I live in a locality which is surrounded by factories, and I left the house after the factory-whistles had sounded, releasing the people for a day of freedom after a week of unremitting toil.
A woman who lived by vice was rocking the baby, and giving her her bottle; and for two days, she had been unremitting in her attention.
To me she was most kind and unremitting in her duties--more, indeed, like a mother than a hireling; and I loved her as if she had stood in that relation to me.
Our attentions to him, unremittingand anxious, were repaid by a gratitude and love which seemed equally divided between his young wife and the child of his first love.
He once said that he had not known a waking hour free from pain for fifteen years, yet his religious trust and unsubdued spirit sustained him through a life of unremitting toil.
Nelson watched it with unremitting and almost unexampled perseverance.
Miss MacVane became his secretary; she could not be entirely cured, but with expert treatment and unremitting watchfulness she might retain a measure of vision for a long time.
The war was over, but she knew full well that it was only for a short time, and she spent the eight years of restless peace that followed, in the most unremitting efforts to enable her country to endure the next attack.
One more week of this unremittingfatigue and I should be killed outright".
In good truth, the enormous productivity which his unremitting facility encouraged, his piano playing and conducting, his incessant travels were subtly undermining his system.
My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country, and if elected they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate.
