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The word unceasing is often used in literature to heighten the sense of relentless continuation, whether describing an emotion, a natural phenomenon, or a series of actions. It appears in contexts that evoke perpetual passion or sorrow, such as a delirium that persists without break [1] or grief that holds a character in its constant grip [2]. At times, it illustrates the unending progress of mankind or a struggle against overwhelming forces [3, 4]. Poetic works often employ the term to evoke the steady, rhythmic persistence of nature—like the ceaseless murmur of a river or the unending cascade of tears [5, 6]—while prose may use it to highlight continual efforts or suffering, as in the portrayal of labor, prayer, or even torment [7, 8]. This versatile descriptor thus reinforces themes of continuity and inevitability throughout various literary traditions [9, 10].
  1. And throughout this unceasing delirium, Play may pour, at your will, its molten lead into your veins.
    — from The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac
  2. Therefore he kept no blind outlook, but watched and swallowed down his children: and unceasing grief seized Rhea.
    — from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod
  3. If immortality means anything, it means unceasing progress for individuals and for the race.
    — from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
  4. Shore species are exceedingly abundant, and the struggle for life is there carried on with unceasing strife.
    — from The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found Between Tide-marks by Augusta Foote Arnold
  5. They could hear the river murmuring and the unceasing chirrup of the grasshoppers.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  6. Beyond lay the sea, misty and purple, with its haunting, unceasing murmur.
    — from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
  7. I will humbly bear my punishment and, like Job, I find consolation in suffering and unceasing toil.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  8. The thought gnawed in his brain, an unceasing torment, while he smiled and succeeded in being tolerant.
    — from Martin Eden by Jack London
  9. But the landlord of Pohyola, Does not heed the words of Ahti, Strikes in fury, strikes unceasing, Ever aiming, ever missing.
    — from Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete
  10. From two openings in its southern and eastern sides an unceasing flow of lava poured forth, thus forming two distinct streams.
    — from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

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