"Unintermitted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... approach, To lesser birds the messenger of death; So before Hector and AEneas fled, Screaming, forgetful of their warlike fame, The sons of Greece; and scatter'd here and there Around the ditch lay store of goodly arms, By Greeks abandon'd in their hasty flight. Yet still, unintermitted, rag'd the war. ...
— The Iliad • Homer
... ANTHONY whose earnestness of purpose, honesty of intention, unintermitted industry, indefatigable perseverance, and extraordinary business-talent, are surpassed only by the virtues which have illustrated her life, devoted, like that of Dorothea Dix, ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... two other things, moreover, which she does not consider: First, that, besides board, washing, fuel, and lights, which she would have in a family, she would have also less unintermitted toil. Shop-work exacts its ten hours per diem; and it makes no allowance ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various
... and Stubb's was foremost. By great exertion, Tashtego at last succeeded in planting one iron; but the stricken whale, without at all sounding, still continued his horizontal flight, with added fleetness. Such unintermitted strainings upon the planted iron must sooner or later inevitably extract it. It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him. But to haul the boat up to his flank was impossible, he swam so fast and furious. ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... foreign to both armies,—certainly presented a subject or series of subjects calculated to tax the powers of a conscientious writer to the uttermost. To furnish such a narrative was the work undertaken by General Napier. Sixteen years of unintermitted toil were given by him to the task. He spared no labor of research. Materials were placed at his disposal by the generals of both armies, by Soult and Wellington. The correspondence left behind in Spain by Joseph Bonaparte, written in three ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various
... against an exuberant effect. With clothing the whole environment is immediately affected. The air, which is our proper medium, is only filtered to our bodies in an abated and niggardly fashion which can scarcely be as beneficial as the generous and unintermitted elemental play. The question naturally arises whether clothing is as unknown to nature as we have fancied? Viewed as a protective measure against atmospheric rigour we find that many creatures grow, by their own central impulse, some kind of exterior panoply which may be regarded ...
— The Crock of Gold • James Stephens |
