Pauseless

Gletkin's way of rapping out his questions in a rapid, pauseless sequence called to his mind the image of a bird of prey hacking at its victim with its beak. ❋ Thomas Plastino Martin (2010)

A poem ostensibly about marble is actually a droll analysis of our wish to thwart mortality, and in "Loss Creek," a hike through "the broken prose of the bush roads" gradually, gracefully metamorphoses into a meditation on desire, where the poet recognizes "the sweet / perils rushing in the creek crawling / through the rock" and knows "he should not trust such / pauseless syntax." ❋ Lemon Hound (2006)

I was long wrapt by such ideas; but the soul wearies of a pauseless flight; and, stooping from its wheeling circuits round and round this spot, suddenly it fell ten thousand fathom deep, into the abyss of the present — into self-knowledge — into tenfold sadness. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Its pauseless flow, the stern momentum of its current -- its remorseless coldness to all human hopes and fears -- the secrets which lie buried underneath its waters, and the myriad purposes of those it bears upon its bosom -- are all so clearly typical of Time. ❋ J. L. McConnel (N/A)

He subsided, enveloped himself in a cloud of smoke and listened, half-amused, half-irritated, to Lulu's pauseless, squirrel-like chatter. ❋ Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)

Line by line, stanza by stanza, the words came sweeping on with the rhythm of marching feet, pauseless, resistless. ❋ Maud Howe Elliott (1915)

The flames of pauseless industries are here and there marked on the distance. ❋ Unknown (1899)

How exquisite the indication of the pauseless continuity of the nightingale's song by the transition from short sentences, cut up by commas and semicolons, to the “linked sweetness long drawn out” of “She all night long her amorous descant sung”! ❋ Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 (1890)

The dizzy swiftness would have blinded most who should have been carried through the dry air and under the burning skies at that breathless and pauseless speed; but she had ridden half-maddened colts with the skill of Arabs themselves; she had been tossed on a holster from her earliest years, and had clung with an infant's hands in fearless glee to the mane of roughriders 'chargers. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

Victorious and pauseless the cranes parted the air, now and then exchanging a cry with their leader; there was something proud and grave, a certain unwavering self-reliance in this call, this interchange of speech in the cloud confines. ❋ Unknown (1872)

How exquisite the indication of the pauseless continuity of the nightingale's song by the transition from short sentences, cut up by commas and semicolons, to the "linked sweetness long drawn out" of "She all night long her amorous descant sung"! ❋ Richard Garnett (1870)

Up from its deep reservoirs, from the mysterious basements of the mountain, wells the silent stream; pauseless and motionless it fills its urn, rises unruffled, glides until the brink is reached, then overflows, and foams, and dashes noisily, a cataract, among the boulders of the hills. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

The animals were driven here; and I spent part of the afternoon sitting on a large rock among them, enjoying the pauseless rapidity with which they luxuriated on the unaccustomed food. ❋ Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont (1851)

But pauseless, like an army over its fallen, the train moves on. ❋ Unknown (1839)

I was long wrapt by such ideas; but the soul wearies of a pauseless flight; and, stooping from its wheeling circuits round and round this spot, suddenly it fell ten thousand fathom deep, into the abyss of the present -- into self-knowledge -- into tenfold sadness. ❋ Unknown (1826)