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Hourly   /ˈaʊrli/   Listen
adjective
Hourly  adj.  Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual. "In hourly expectation of a martyrdom."



adverb
Hourly  adv.  Every hour; frequently; continually. "Great was their strife, which hourly was renewed."






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"Hourly" Quotes from Famous Books



... for more when all has been refused? Why praise My name Who hourly am abused? Why seek for Me or heaven, when in you dwells Hate's ...
— Hello, Boys! • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... than the actual source of that stream, and whose omission as not upon the dividing ridge would make the minimum greater. This height was determined by the parties of A. Talcott, esq, by two distinct and separate sets of observations, one of which was continued hourly for several days, and no doubt can exist that it is as accurate a measure as the barometer is capable of affording. In the report of Messrs. Featherstonhaugh and Mudge this height is set down as no more than 957 feet, but it is determined from a single observation. That it is erroneous must ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Tyler - Section 2 (of 3) of Volume 4: John Tyler • Compiled by James D. Richardson

... touch with all that is noble and of good report in art and literature, keenly interested in all the discoveries of science, active in all movements of social progress. It cannot, however, be denied that to live such a life, divine in its powers and human in its sympathies, demands daily and hourly self-sacrifice. As the author of the Imitation of Christ put it long ago, "There is no living in love without pain." The thought of self-sacrifice has been emphasized from the earliest times in the liturgies. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various

... has dispatched a message to inform Melissa of your arrival, and to desire her to come here immediately. She will undoubtedly comply with the invitation, if not prevented by something extraordinary. I should have written you had I not hourly expected you." ...
— Alonzo and Melissa - The Unfeeling Father • Daniel Jackson, Jr.

... amidst the pressure. It is possible to see the will of God in everything, and to find it not a sigh but a song. It is possible in the world of inner act and motion to put away all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and evil speaking, daily and hourly. It is possible, by unreserved resort to divine power, under divine conditions, to become strongest at our weakest point; to find the thing which yesterday upset all our obligations to patience, an occasion to-day, through ...
— The Life Radiant • Lilian Whiting


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