Example Sentences

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The torment was secret and incessant, and kept my mind in unintermitting activity.

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Firmness of mind and unintermitting occupation will not long leave you in pain.

From James Madison by Gay, Sydney Howard

The district is swept by the cold winds from the Cordilleras, the climate is most inhospitable, unintermitting snow and storm during four months of the year.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

Their potency arises from a characteristic feature—they are unintermitting.

From Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir

For five days we continued to drift to the northwest, in no danger of starvation, owing to our lading of provisions, but constrained to unintermitting watch and ward by the roughness of the weather.

From To Whom This May Come 1898 by Bellamy, Edward