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After 20 years, Mary Byrne, teacher at the model school of the New York Training School for Teachers, began to fear the incessancy of this schoolteacher's routine.

From Time Magazine Archive

We see here a poetical method of equivalents—for "on thee he call'd, sigh'd, sang," is intended to render the urgency and incessancy of Te, Te, Te, Te!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

And afterward he would come home with a headache, and ghostly fiddles would vex him all night long with their thin incessancy.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

But now fatigue a little deadened him to that incessancy of life, it seemed now just an eternal circling.

From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)