ceaselessness

The only real cruelty surrounded me, in the ceaselessness of everything: the tides, the wind, the moon crossing the sky toward another dawn.

FORLORN HOPE FANCY • by Douglas Campbell 2008

For Rosenstock-Huessy, this search for a stable space is reflected in recurrent philosophical elements which privilege the implacability of space (or a particular space) over the ceaselessness of time.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Cristaudo, Wayne 2008

The penetrating quality of the wind depends on its ceaselessness.

OpEdNews - Diary: Petraeus Hearings Open Thread 2008

The penetrating quality of the wind depends on its ceaselessness.

OpEdNews - Diary: Petraeus Hearings Open Thread 2008

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i-claudius Diary Entry i-claudius 2007

Hence to entire sincerity there belongs ceaselessness.

The doctrine of the mean Confucius 2004

The ceaselessness of the _Volpe_'s pitch and plunge wore at him: unable to find even an hour's respite to recover his energies, Matteo could keep nothing down, found it impossible to maintain his balance, and felt the ship's unnatural motions -- irreconcilable with any human cycle -- begin to ravage him.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

It was the ceaselessness of the work which tried her so severely, and began to make her wish that she had never come to Flintcomb-Ash.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

It was the ceaselessness of the work which tried her so severely, and began to make her wish that she had never some to Flintcomb-Ash.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

In his aspect there was a certain dryness, and, altogether, his vivacity, his ceaselessness, and a kind of equability of tone in his voice, reminded me of what Homer says concerning the old men around Priam, above the gate of Troy, how they "chirped like cicalas on a summer day."

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878