unremittent
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I've come back to Overton, the land of the dig and the home of the sage, to show what four years of unremittent toil have done for me.
From Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
For such a man enthusiasm for his work is unfailing and industry unremittent.
From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Walter Dill Scott
That guttural, scolding voice, unremittent as the hissing of a steam pipe, is Mrs. Rasnosky.
From The Promised Land by Mary Antin
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 A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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 Booth Tarkington
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