Literary notes about continually (AI summary)
The term "continually" is used to signal actions or states that persist without interruption, adding a rhythmic and sometimes urgent quality to the text. It can describe ongoing behaviors or habits, as when a character is repeatedly reminded of facts [1] or when drinking goes on throughout a season [2]. In other cases, it conveys natural or systematic processes, such as the unending gravitation of commodity prices [3] or the persistent burning of a mountain [4]. It further emphasizes emotional or mental fixations, reinforcing how certain thoughts or feelings recur over time [5, 6]. This usage across genres—from philosophical discourses to vivid narratives—underscores a sense of constant motion or unyielding presence that enriches the reading experience.
- Why do you continually remind us of these facts?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Now from his beefy and bloated face and from his bloodshot eyes it could be seen that he had been drinking continually from November till Christmas.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - It is the only one of these mountains that is continually burning.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny - I continually think of you, I continually call to mind that day when you bestowed on me the first marks of your tenderness.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse - Thousands of dreams of a future family life continually rose in her imagination.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
