Use constant in a sentence
Sentences starting with constant
- Constant contests with them increased that roughness which now makes him the terror of his subordinates and alienates all affection. [10]
Sentences ending with constant
- It bore a resemblance to the low moaning of one in pain, but it was not that, being far too regular and constant. [12]
- In every case in which many specimens were obtained the differences were constant. [1]
- The political economists have made England the world's great workshop, on the theory that wealth is the greatest good in life, and that with the golden streams flowing into England from a tributary world, wages would rise, food be cheap, employment constant. [4]
- The former is fair-haired; the glance of his eyes is deep and constant. [10]
- That comes of being constant. [4]
Short sentences using constant
- My constant torment was thirst. [9]
- That was my constant thought. [5]
Sentences containing constant two or more times
- When you add the constant presence of charming scenery and the nearly constant absence of dust--well, if one is not content then, he ought to get out and walk. [5]
More example sentences with the word constant in them
- And I thought you the most constant of all. [9]
- During the four years of his residence the country was in a constant state of excitement and often of panic. [4]
- The cannonshots had wounded him fatally, he had crept to that unfriendly place in the fog, and there, surrounded by his enemies and in constant danger of detection, he had wasted away with hunger and suffering till death gave him peace. [5]
- Lecturing was hard work, but he was under the "base necessity," as he called it, of constant labor, writing in summer, speaking everywhere east and west in the trying and dangerous winter season. [6]
- There isn't one woman out of ten thousand that would have stood the test as your wife has stood it; injured at the start, constant neglect, temptation--" he paused. [11]
- He knew that within reach of Paula, and condemned to live with her, he could never recover his peace, but must suffer constant pangs. [10]
- A constant marvel with us, as we sped along the bases of the steep mountains on this journey, was, not that avalanches occur, but that they are not occurring all the time. [5]
- It is crowded with lines worn smooth as old sesterces by constant quotation. [6]
- Any person who will reflect that money is only valuable while in circulation will readily perceive that any device which will keep the government revenues in constant circulation, instead of being locked up in idleness, is no inconsiderable advantage. [7]
- I'll be a Will o' the Wisp, now here, now there, dancing about you always, starting up when you least expect me, and keeping you in a constant state of restlessness and irritation. [12]
- Her lips, too, which she had but rarely and timidly opened for a question or an answer, were in constant motion; for how much she desired to know, how many questions she had to ask the silent husband who had endured such terrible suffering. [10]
- Clemens and Rice were constant associates, though continually firing squibs at each other in their respective papers--a form of personal journalism much in vogue on the Comstock. [5]
- So the next weeks passed in a constant alternation of oppressive fears and aspiring hopes, the nights in torturing terrors. [10]
- More than that, we stood regular and nearly constant watches pushing up behind. [5]
- From the time we first struck the Bras d'Or for thirty miles we rode in constant sight of its magnificent water. [4]
- None, at least, was so fervent a defender of the faith, so punctilious in all observances, so constant at the altar rail; none so versed in rubrics, ritual, and canon law; none had such a knowledge of the Church fathers. [9]
- Yet the tension was not constant, rising and falling with his moods and struggles, all of which she read--unguessed by him--as easily as a printed page by the gift that dispenses with laborious processes of the intellect. [9]
- The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. [2]
- This maidenly dignity was at all times shielded by the five brothers, who treated her with a constant and reverential courtesy. [11]
- It requires constant vigilance to keep the letter 'a' flattened out. [4]
- He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep'him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him. [5]
- He got him up so in the matter of ketching flies, and kep' him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as fur as he could see him. [5]
- The close, constant, uninterrupted companionship of the married pair revealed to each unexpected treasures in the other, which, perhaps, might have remained forever concealed in city life. [10]
- However, one or two young men remained upright, and by constant persecution we wormed out of them some little information. [5]
- Then the constant turmoil all day long and until late at night! [10]
- The men who treasure their dead for thousands of years, and would rather lose their last loaf than allow a single bone belonging to one of their ancestors to be taken from them, are not constant, they are foolish. [10]
- The man seemed to understand his master perfectly, to read one look as though it were a volume-- "The constant service of the antique world. [11]
- He did everything to put himself in the way of conviction, was constant at the evening meetings, wore a grave face, refrained from play, and tried to feel anxious. [4]
- Fielding also ought to have a few days clear away from this constant pressure and fighting, and the sounds and the smells of death; but it could not be yet. [11]
- Since I declined to give that vote, this scurrilous abuse, these vindictive and constant attacks have been repeated almost daily on me. [7]
- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy--is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it! [12]
- Now, from sunrise till evening fell, Pollux was constant to his work. [10]
- There is therefore this constant miracle of a new heavens and a new earth. [4]
- What has raised this constant disturbance in every Presbyterian General Assembly that meets? [7]
- Only the dishonourable thing could make me close the doors of my heart, and I will not think you, whate'er they say, unworthy of my constant faith. [11]
- In putting forward these tributes of admiration and affection, as well as in his constant allusion to the ill requital of his services, we see a man fighting for his reputation, and conscious of the necessity of doing so. [4]
- Of course, where there is so much fighting, the students make it a point to keep themselves in constant practice with the foil. [5]
- Of course all the westing we have made is gain, and I hope the chronometer is wrong in our favour, for I do not see how any such delicate instrument can keep good time with the constant jarring and thumping we get from the sea. [5]
- In fact, while the temporo-occipital is one of the most constant of sulci in the Catarrhine, or Old World, apes, it is never very strongly developed in the New World apes; it is absent in the smaller Platyrrhini; rudimentary in Pithecia (73. [1]
- In the afternoon the returning prodigal made constant deflections from his course to see if by ascending some hillock he might not pierce the distance and catch a glimpse of his home. [5]
- You are both the most constant visitors of--what is the woman's name?--the bewitching Barine. [10]
- No one makes the Mediterranean trip in summer to-day, and the thought of adding constant letter-writing to steady travel through southern France, Italy, Greece, and Turkey in blazing midsummer is stupefying. [5]
- The obliteration of the external perpendicular fissure of Gratiolet, therefore, is not a constant character of the human brain. [1]
- They judged that the Duke's constant presence and the lawyer's protracted absence would do the rest--for they did not invite the lawyer. [5]
- But it was the constant use of the little knowledge which he had that developed and exercised his mental powers. [7]
- On plateaux of the constant snow I heard the meteors whir; I saw the red wolves nor'ward go From my low huts of fir. [11]
- There would be the constant need of fighting the hot tempers and impulses of youth, growing more and more instead of less and less unreasonable. [4]
- The history of the colony all this spring of 1608 is one of labor and discontent, of constant annoyance from the Indians, and expectations of attacks. [4]
- I was reminded that unexplained sudden deaths were of constant, of daily occurrence; that any emotion is liable to arrest the movements of life: terror, joy, good news or bad news,--anything that reaches the deeper nervous centres. [6]
- She must know that this was not an affair of the moment, but that there was condensed in it all the constant devotion of months and months. [4]
- Now you see that this constant impact of crime upon crime protects you against further commission of crime. [5]
- Next, I learned that Osgood, among the rest of the "general," was worrying over these constant and pitiless attacks. [5]
- Mr. Ruskin says that "the Sirens are the great constant desires, the infinite sicknesses of heart, which, rightly placed, give life, and, wrongly placed, waste it away; so that there are two groups of Sirens, one noble and saving, as the other is fatal. [4]
- He did not tarry long, but assured Ambulinia the endless chain of their existence was more closely connected than ever, since he had seen the virtuous, innocent, imploring, and the constant Amelia murdered by the jealous-hearted Farcillo, the accursed of the land. [5]
- Princess Mary was still the same timid, plain maiden getting on in years, uselessly and joylessly passing the best years of her life in fear and constant suffering. [2]
- She, presently, would step out of the noise, the oppressive moist heat of the drawing and spinning rooms, the constant, remorseless menace of whirling wheels and cogs and belts. [9]
- Since coming to St. Saviour's he had been constant to one attraction, and he had not risked his chances with Zoe by response to the shy invitations of dark eyes, young and not so young, which met his own here and there in the parish. [11]
- Continued abstention from speech, and constant avoidance of everything that might lead up to the subject--this halting on all sides at the boundary of what they might not mention--brought before their minds with still greater purity and clearness what they were both feeling. [2]
- I am Adam's son, and will be constant to him. [10]
- Yet there was something to modify all this: an occasional indefinable sadness, a constant note of pathetic warning. [11]
- I see in some of the modern novels we have been talking of the same unscrupulous daring, a blindness to moral distinctions, a constant exaltation of a passion into a virtue, an entire disregard of the immutable laws on which the family and society rest. [4]
- For this--for this sinking sense, this failing body, this wear and tear of mind and heart, this constant study to be possible where she had once been declared by the world to be impossible. [11]
- Dick Venner found she was getting more constant in her attendance at school. [6]
- Above all else she wanted to love him truly, and to be loved truly, and duty was to her a daily sacrifice, a constant memorial. [11]
- And my wife, she came of the purest stock of Aquitaine, and she was constant, in her prayers. [11]
- No frowning age shall control The constant current of my soul, Nor a tear from pity's eye Shall check my sympathetic sigh. [5]
- The colouring matter seems to be a nearly constant quantity, but is redistributed, either centripetally or centrifugally. [1]
- The 22d he sailed in the Susan Constant for England, carrying specimens of the woods and minerals, and made the short passage of five weeks. [4]
- For herself, she said, she was troubled with a lowness in that respect which required a constant stimulant; though whether the aforesaid stimulant was derived from the suspicious bottle of which mention has been already made or from other sources, she did not say. [12]
- Her father, Agatha said, lived in constant warfare with the misery and suffering of his fellow-creatures, and he was, in fact, able to make those about him happy and prosperous. [10]
- Any hour may rob me of him, for his life is one of constant peril. [10]
- Had he the right to call upon Rosalie for constant self-sacrifice, when, by shutting his eyes now, by being dead to Kathleen and her need, as he was dead to the world he once knew, the way would be clear to marry Rosalie? [11]
- There is no ride on the continent, of the kind, so full of picturesque beauty and constant surprises as this around the indentations of St. Ann's harbor. [4]
- This is the result of six thousand years of constant civilization. [4]
- He determined to remove Maurice to his own house, where he could be sure of pure air, and where he himself could give more constant attention to his patient during this critical period of his disease. [6]
- But man's nature remains a constant quantity. [4]
- Fame, reputation, constant public mention--these are the detective's bread and butter. [5]
- Would not any prudent physician keep such a person under the eye of constant watchers, as in a dangerous state of, at least, partial mental alienation? [6]
- He enjoyed the privilege of constant companionship with one of the warmest hearts and finest intellects which I have ever known in a woman,--the 'ame d'elite' which has passed beyond this earth. [6]
- Munich was always present with her 33 deaths in each 1,000 of her population (yearly average), Chicago was as constant with her 15 or 17, Dublin with her 48--and so on. [5]
- The abundance of population is a constant surprise. [4]
- Something of this placidity and resignation to the ills inevitable in human life is due to an even climate, to the constant sun and the dry air. [4]
- To watch the operations of the big fire gives him constant pleasure. [4]
- This we can only resist by the constant assertion of the rights, the power, the dignity of the individual State, all that it has not surrendered in the fundamental constitution of the Republic. [4]
- Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the commander in chief. [2]
- Although the characters of this variety are not quite constant, yet it has been named by several distinguished ornithologists as a distinct species. [1]
- With the complacency of the sun Honora was wont to regard this most constant of her satellites. [9]
- The prominent nose of the intellectual New-Englander is evidence of the constant linguistic exercise of the organ for generations. [4]
- The deep consciousness of Susy's good fortune is a constant comfort to me. [5]
- In the years of student life and preparation they had not often met, but they were constant and painstaking correspondents. [4]
- Otherwise, the game of poker is much what it is on land, and the constant consulting of charts and reckoning of speed evince the general desire to get somewhere--that is, to arrive at a harbor. [4]
- He even spoke of Garvin: adversity, worry, the heat, constant brooding over a happier past and an uncertain future--was it surprising that the poor man's mind had become unhinged? [9]
- It is matter of experience that wealth and learning and power are as likely to bring unhappiness as happiness, and yet this constant lesson of experience makes not the least impression upon human conduct. [4]
- He was fond of entertaining, and there were moments of triumph that repaid him for a good deal, but the tyranny of a schedule and timetables was a constant exasperation. [5]
- The magnificent work of Albinus on the muscles, published in 1747, is still supreme in its department, as the constant references of the most thorough recent treatise on the subject, that of Theile, sufficiently show. [3]
- With the assistance of a bad cook and a constant spleen caused by resentment against the intervention of his priest, good Father Roche, he finished his career with great haste and without either becoming a nuisance to his neighbours or ruining his property. [11]
- The law is not very well enforced, it is true; for people do thin them out with constant dosing, paregoric, and soothing-syrups, and scanty clothing. [4]
- But it was not to Mrs Jiniwin alone that Mr Quilp's attention was restricted, as several other matters required his constant vigilance. [12]
- Only they must not be disappointed if they find many subjects treated in our courses as a medical class requires, rather than as a scientific class would expect, that is, with special limitations and constant reference to practical ends. [3]
- I know of no worse loss than that of a friend tried through years, indeed some of us have lived too long on the Nile not to have imbibed a little of the constant, unchanging Egyptian temperament. [10]
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