Example Sentences

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“To get the word male out of the Constitution cost the women of the country...years of pauseless campaigning,” she later wrote.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

There was a din of crickets outside, and the pauseless roar of the river, and the stately world was illumined with pearly moonlight; but inside the log it was dark and hushed, like a crypt.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

He subsided, enveloped himself in a cloud of smoke and listened, half-amused, half-irritated, to Lulu's pauseless, squirrel-like chatter.

From Angel Island by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

Ay, a child,— Who never, praying, wept before: While, in a mother undefiled, Prayer goeth on in sleep, as true And pauseless as the pulses do.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

They have told us something of what has been done by wind and wave, by fire and frost, by life and death, the ceaseless workers, the pauseless forces of the world.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green