1 And, as her love for Scarlett and her pride in her were enormous, the chastening process was practically continuous.
2 There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankee assault bloodily repulsed.
3 It was the first time that any one in Gopher Prairie had been so revolutionary as to use enclosed scenes with continuous side-walls.
4 All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.
5 Mrs. Cutter remained flushed and wild-eyed as we had known her, but as the years passed she became afflicted with a shaking palsy which made her nervous nod continuous instead of occasional.
6 In these chutes the stream of animals was continuous; it was quite uncanny to watch them, pressing on to their fate, all unsuspicious a very river of death.
7 He held continuous arguments as to whether he should lie down and sleep at some near spot, or force himself on until he reached a certain haven.
8 It was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom.
9 There was a thin, crisp, continuous patter from somewhere in the heart of that crawling bank.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles 10 Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST 11 The carpet seemed continuous and firmly nailed, so I dismissed the idea of a trap-door.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ 12 Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then.
13 When an individual has revolutionised therapeutics by his discovery of the continuous evolution of brain-matter, conventional forms are unfitting, since they would seem to limit him to one of a class.
14 A continuous noise of the rapids above hovered over this scene of inhabited devastation.
15 A continuous shower of small flies streamed upon the lamp, upon the cloth, upon our hands and faces.