pause
noun
a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action.
pauseless
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a word derived from
pause.
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
She saw herself, at first with an astonished chagrin and afterwards with resignation, swarming up to the eaves of her little home, pauseless, gapless, luxuriantly threatening choke the very chimneys.
From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
Tremendous movement thus pauseless and unmodified gives, of course, a deeper impression of durability than the most imposing solids.
From The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert
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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
