"Interminably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the lawn, Stanny and Dossie rolled over and over in the joy of life. And up the slope they toiled, laughing, to roll interminably down. ...
— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair
... launched upon her favorite stream of talk, would have sailed on interminably, had not the announcement of new guests floated ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... that night, which seemed interminably long, I patrolled the vicinity of the pavilion, without seeing a living creature or hearing any noise but the concert of the wind, the sea, and the rain. A light in the upper story filtered through a cranny of the shutter, and kept me company till ...
— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson
... work of his has survived till to-day is read, not for its style, but in spite of its style. His syntax is loose and unscholarly; his vocabulary is copious, but often inaccurate; many of his sentences ramble on interminably, lacking unity, precision, and balance. Figures of speech he seldom abuses because he seldom uses; his imagination, as noticed before, being extremely limited in range. That Defoe, in spite of these defects, should succeed in interesting us in his "Plague," is a remarkable tribute to his ...
— History of the Plague in London • Daniel Defoe
... boys and girls by making them drunkards. Strictly, of course, if the boundary dispute was to be submitted to a commission, he ought to have allowed the other party to appoint its own commissioners without any suggestion from him. But as the case had dragged on interminably, and he believed, and the world believed, and the Canadians themselves knew, that they intended to filibuster and postpone as long as possible, he took the common-sense way to a settlement. If he had resolved, as he ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer
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