Literary notes about Incessant (AI summary)
In literature, the term incessant is deployed to emphasize an unyielding, almost overwhelming continuity, whether describing the brute force of nature or the relentlessness of human behavior. Authors evoke an atmosphere of persistent intensity—as seen in depictions of never-ceasing natural phenomena like torrential rains that confine characters [1, 2] or the constant clamor of battle [3]—and equally in the human realm, where it characterizes chatter and restlessness that define temperaments [4, 5]. The word serves to underscore a ceaseless, rhythmic progression of events or actions, lending both a tangible and symbolic weight to the unremitting forces at work in the narrative [6, 7].
- Heavy and incessant rain-storms submerged the Virginia roads.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - The sky became overcast, and the rays of the Sun and the Moon totally disappeared in consequence of that incessant downpour.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - The steel ramrods clanked and clanged with incessant din as the men pounded them furiously into the hot rifle barrels.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - He is—like his brother of the West—an incessant talker, and knows all the scandal of the town.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - I heard their ringing laughter, their incessant chatter, their trilling voices; they were all twittering at once, like swallows.
— from White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Ten years of my incessant labor has contributed to increase the bulk of his possessions.
— from Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup - He soon realized that even his iron constitution could not stand the incessant strain which he was putting upon it.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
