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Sentences starting with perpetual

Perpetual Governor-general, who quickens into life puppet governors of his own choosing Asa has agreed, for the honour of the title of governor of his State, to act the part, open the fairs, lend his magnificent voice to those phrases which it rounds so well. [9]
Perpetual peace we cannot have on any terms, I suppose; but I hope we can gradually reduce the war strength of Europe till we get it down to where it ought to be--20,000 men, properly armed. [5]
Perpetual Forces, 297. [6]

Sentences ending with perpetual

It is manifest to all honest minds that if an author is entitled to own his work for a term of years, it is equally the duty of his government to make that ownership perpetual. [4]
I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. [7]
But Judge Douglas and his friends have broken up that policy, and placed it upon a new basis, by which it is to become national and perpetual. [7]

Short sentences using perpetual

Financial operations are perpetual war. [4]

Sentences containing perpetual two or more times

I ask you this: to be a perpetual Member and the only Perpetual Member of a Diplomatic Body accredited to the greatest country on earth do you call that nothing? [5]

More example sentences with the word perpetual in them

How gladly she would have held back the sun which was bringing on the day of death to this kindest of mistresses, and have spent the rest of her own life in perpetual night, if only her yesterday's deed could but have been undone! [10]
But, still, the works which his great and untiring hand had already thoroughly finished will remain to attest his learning and genius, --a precious and perpetual possession for his country. [6]
His round of work not consuming all his energies, he must needs cultivate the Doctor's garden, which he kept in one perpetual bloom, from the blowing of the first crocus to the fading of the last dahlia. [6]
A pleasant dinner with the Dean, a stroll through the grounds of the episcopal palace, with that perpetual feast of the eyes which the cathedral offered us, made our residence delightful at the time, and keeps it so in remembrance. [6]
With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
Journeying towards the White Mountains, we concluded that a line passing through Bellows Falls, and bending a little south on either side, would mark northward the region of perpetual pie. [4]
I said there was property in ideas before Queen Anne's time; they had perpetual copyright. [5]
His own mind was in a perpetual state of exaltation produced by the stirring scenes in which he had taken a part, and the quickened life of the time in which he lived. [3]
The recent Revised Version enjoys perpetual copyright, too--a stronger precedent, even, than the other one. [5]
You, gentlemen, ought to choose a better guide than this chatter-mag that keeps up its perpetual rattle when once you set it going. [10]
Having given him this piece of moral advice for his trouble (which, as he wisely observed, was far better than half-pence) the Perpetual Grand Master of the Glorious Apollos thrust his hands into his pockets and sauntered away: still pondering as he went. [12]
The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that Nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder. [6]
They can bear the rain and the breezes, and be all the better for them; but perpetual contradiction is a pelting hailstorm, which spoils their growth and tends to kill them out altogether. [6]
She had saved the Queen's life upon May Day, and on the evening of that day the Queen had sent for her, had made such high and tender acknowledgment of her debt as would seem to justify for her perpetual honour. [11]
It may take the place of something worse, the wretchedness of a mind not yet dethroned, but subject to the perpetual interferences of another mind governed by laws alien and hostile to its own. [6]
The parable of the Pharisee and the Publican is a perpetual warning against spiritual pride. [6]
In other words, the millionocracy, considered in a large way, is not at all an affair of persons and families, but a perpetual fact of money with a variable human element, which a philosopher might leave out of consideration without falling into serious error. [6]
But what is the gift of a mourning ring to the bequest of a perpetual annuity? [6]
No sooner had the Compromise Acts of 1850 resulted in a temporary peace, which everybody said must be final and perpetual, than new outbreaks came. [7]
We cannot think that this young man is doomed to perpetual separation from the society of womanhood during the period of its bloom and attraction. [6]
The fact is, that gardening is the old fable of perpetual labor; and I, for one, can never forgive Adam Sisyphus, or whoever it was, who let in the roots of discord. [4]
In the long summer days since she had bade him good-by on her way through New York from Silverdale, Honora had constructed him: he was perpetual yet sophisticated Youth; he was Finance and Fashion; he was Power in correctly cut clothes. [9]
He was the sum total of the universe, the epitome of things created; and at the same time he was the power which gave them life and intelligence and preserved them from perishing by perpetual procreation. [10]
By applying it, she can excommunicate (and this is perpetual again) every functionary connected with the Supreme Church, and every one of the twenty-five thousand members of that Church, at an hour's notice--and do it all by herself without anybody's help. [5]
On the street, salutes between officers and men are perpetual, punctiliously given and returned,--the hand raised to the temple, and held there for a second. [4]
Soon after her return, she was attacked by new sensations of perpetual nausea, and ever-recurring faintness. [14]
It had effectually prevented his being popular, but it had made him--with his foppishness and his originality--an object of perpetual interest. [11]
Besides, his mere presence was a perpetual reminder of my mother. [10]
What are the poor dips which flare and flicker on the crowns of spikes that stand at the corners of St. Genevieve's filigree-cased sarcophagus to this perpetual offering of sacrifice? [6]
A small seal playing by himself near the shore, floating on and diving under the breakers, is not so very disagreeable, especially if he comes so near that you can see his pathetic eyes; but these brutes in this perpetual summer resort are disgustingly attractive. [4]
Things that seemed pigeon-holed and remote are a perpetual influence. [5]
By a hardy perversion of privilege on the part of the lawmaking power the Bible has perpetual copyright in Great Britain. [5]
You have a perpetual source of enjoyment denied to some people. [9]
She dreaded the perpetual recourse to such stimulants as change of scene and society, because of the reaction that was sure to follow. [14]
It was a perpetual picnic, a French Revolution in small, an Age of Reason in a patty-pan. [6]
In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but--I do not know how to express it... not by a balance of political power...." It was evident that Prince Andrew was not interested in such abstract conversation. [2]
There is a perpetual metempsychosis of thought, and the knowledge of to-day finds a soil in the forgotten facts of yesterday. [3]
It is a perpetual insult to mediocrity; its every word is a trespass against somebody's vested ideas,--blasphemy against somebody's O'm, or intangible private truth. [6]
With such weather perpetual and such scenery always present, sin in this world would soon become an impossibility. [4]
Watching them from one of the windows of the great mansion, I saw these perpetual changes, and moralized thus:- --Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. [6]
The dwarf's lodging on Tower hill comprised, besides the needful accommodation for himself and Mrs Quilp, a small sleeping-closet for that lady's mother, who resided with the couple and waged perpetual war with Daniel; of whom, notwithstanding, she stood in no slight dread. [12]
The great fact of physical life is the perpetual commerce with the elements, and the fire is the measure of it. [6]
The perpetual admonition of Nature to us is, 'The world is new, untried. [6]
The express plighting of faith by each and all of the original thirteen in the Articles of Confederation, two years later, that the Union shall be perpetual, is most conclusive. [7]
The first citizen of Brampton possessed one quality so essential to greatness--that of looking into the future, and he believed that the time would come when an event of some importance might create a perpetual alliance between himself and Mr. Duncan. [9]
We do not object to a terrific thunder-shower now and then, as the sign of despair and a lost soul, but perpetual drizzle and grayness and inclemency are tedious to the reader, who has enough bad weather in his private experience. [4]
It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. [6]
It is a most distressing perpetual reminder of the brevity of life and the shortness of feed. [4]
What is the meaning of these perpetual changes and conflicts of medical opinion and practice, from an early antiquity to our own time? [3]
It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. [7]
It was like living in Eden, in the perpetual spring of man's first blissful home on earth. [10]
Hiding her old limbs under rich Persian robes, she moved about exulting in the new and delightful right to command, and kept her inferiors in perpetual motion. [10]
They could ride like Cossacks, they could shoot like William Tell, and they had a mind to be the swivel by which the army of Queen Victoria should swing from almost perpetual disaster, in large and small degree, to victory. [11]
Rudyard, who understands Life's violence, would understand that; what he could never understand would be perpetual artifice, unseemly secretiveness. [11]
I fancied that life would be dull and hang heavily, especially for Margaret, without this perpetual movement and excitement. [4]
But what a life he must have been leading for so many years, with this perpetual source of distress which he could not name! [6]
In this matter Judge Douglas is preparing the public mind for you of Kentucky to make perpetual that good thing in your estimation, about which you and I differ. [7]
Even before the journey to the oasis of Amon, everything life could offer him, the idle rake, in his perpetual darkness, had seemed shallow and scarcely worth stretching out his hand for it. [10]
This perpetual intercommunication, joined to the power of instantaneous action, keeps us always alive with excitement. [6]
He said that it had been his purpose to set up the house in his Museum, keep it in repair, protect it from name-scribblers and other desecrators, and leave it by bequest to the safe and perpetual guardianship of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. [5]
How grateful would it be to make perpetual peace with these pleading saints and their confessors, by the simple act that silences all complainings! [6]
Perhaps he, Hermon, in his perpetual dissatisfaction with himself had condemned his own work too severely, but that it lacked the proper harmony had escaped neither Myrtilus nor himself. [10]
The tragedy was in his living--in the perpetual ruin of his wife's life, renewed every morning. [11]
Yet there was in him no appearance of age; he was in the happy maturity of all his powers, and you would rather have said that in that maturity he had found the secret of perpetual youth. [4]
The characters are in a perpetual soak. [4]
The sufferer was in a high fever, and the physician said that the noise and rattle of vehicles in the street, on which the room where he now lay looked out, and the perpetual coming and going of the men, might endanger his life. [10]
I believe yet, if we could have a moderate, carefully adjusted protective tariff, so far acquiesced in as not to be a perpetual subject of political strife, squabbles changes, and uncertainties, it would be better for us. [7]
For my part, I am superstitious in my admiration of them, and like to walk in a perpetual delusion, decking them out as divinities. [4]
The skin of his face had so shrunk away that he could not close eyes or mouth--the latter, therefore, stood on a perpetual ghastly grin, and the former on an incessant stare. [4]
I shall soon have occasion to speak officially, and then I will endeavor to put my thoughts just as plain as I can express myself--true to the Constitution and Union of all the States, and to the perpetual liberty of all the people. [7]
It would be good economy for the public, considered as a taxpayer, to pay for the perpetual keep of these felons in secure confinement. [4]
Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself. [7]
From this time forward continued a perpetual round of social engagements. [6]
His talked-of project for some regular occupation seemed to have been postponed, although he said to himself that it was only postponed until his speculations, which kept him in a perpetual fever, should put him in a position to command a business. [4]
Let her strike for a perpetual copyright on that book. [5]
Still staring, the figures began to differentiate themselves, although they all appeared, somehow, in perpetual motion; hurrying, though seated. [9]
Has he no existence, no purpose in life outside of that perpetual gentleman in waiting? [9]
If we can ever get this thing through Congress, we can try making copyright perpetual, some day. [5]
But upon that event I became convinced that either I had been resting in a delusion, or the institution was being placed on a new basis, a basis for making it perpetual, national, and universal. [7]
As you go down the social scale, you reach a point at length where the common talk in sick rooms is of churchyards and sepulchres, and a kind of perpetual vivisection is forever carried on, upon the person of the miserable sufferer. [6]
There was, no doubt, a strong feeling among many people that Number Five's affections were a kind of Gibraltar or Ehrenbreitstein, say rather a high table-land in the region of perpetual, unmelting snow. [6]
He would have done with it then, once for all, and the future offered him no prospect but perpetual fatigue in the service of a restless master, anxiety and contempt. [10]
His life and deeds as an Egyptian chief now seemed like a perpetual lie, a constant desertion of his ideal. [10]
Perhaps the American deceives himself when he says he wants repose; what he wants is perpetual activity and change; his peace of mind is postponed until he can get it in his own way. [4]
Their greatest spiritual danger is from the perpetual flattery of abuse to which they are exposed. [6]
She thought she could perhaps have confessed the whole truth, if perpetual imprisonment had been all she had to fear; but death! [10]
Now a perpetual copyright would be quite another matter. [5]
We have to contrive, therefore, another basis for a class (to use an un-American expression), in a sort of culture or training, which can be perpetual, and which cannot be ordered for money, like a ball costume or a livery. [4]
It is a confession of failure in the highest function of being, which involves a perpetual self-determination, in full view of all existing circumstances. [6]
There is one book in the world which bears the charmed life of perpetual copyright (a fact not known to twenty people in the world). [5]
After all, your belief is a pitiless one; for, as I have tried to say, the man has not himself alone to consider, but those to whom his living is a perpetual shame and menace and cruelty insupportable--insupportable! [11]
He had indeed become a riddle to himself; for how was it that he--the gardener's son, brought up in the peaceful temple of Seti--ever since that night by the house of the paraschites had had such a perpetual craving for conflict and struggle? [10]
Drawing, perpetual drawing, became burdensome, repulsive, hateful; but with palette and brush in his hand he could not fail to become an artist, perhaps an artist like Titian. [10]
What could life be to her but a perpetual anguish, and to those about her but an ever-present terror? [6]
Beaton could not be aware of all that dark coil of circumstance through which Dryfoos's present action evolved itself; the worst of this was buried in the secret of the old man's heart, a worm of perpetual torment. [8]
Merely to cut away dead branches is like perpetual attendance at a funeral, and puts one in low spirits. [4]
Evelyn, indeed, seemed, at the distance of Newport, more unattainable than ever, and the scant news he had of the drama enacted there was a perpetual notice to him of the social gulf that lay between them. [4]
Mr. Hunter succeeded at last in naturalizing the doctrine and practice, but even he had to struggle against the perpetual jealousy of rivals, and died at length assassinated by an insult. [3]
It does seem as if perpetual somnolence was the price of listening to other people's wisdom. [6]
And it is apparent that the interests of assignees, who are commonly publishers, are equal with those of authors, in making absolute and perpetual this property in which both are dealers. [4]

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