unremittent
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She said Mr. Flamburg had asked Ardelia's 3d cousin to introduce him to her, and from that time his attentions to her had been unremittent, voyalent, and close.
From Samantha at Saratoga by Holley, Marietta
But shame is the rarest thing in the world: what he felt was this unremittent curiosity about his old employer's thoughts.
From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth
With the beginning of August, the heat grew oppressive; all day long, the sun beat, fierce and unremittent, on this city of the plains, and the baked pavements were warm to the feet.
From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel
And running this film in a sequence unrelieved by brighter interludes, she produced a biographical picture of such consistent and unremittent gloom that Penrod's past appeared to justify disturbing thoughts about his present and future.
From Penrod and Sam by Tarkington, Booth
It is hard work to knit again a shattered line under the unremittent assault of hardened veterans, such as Nelson's Mediterranean ships.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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