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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.

Autumn 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."

Archive 2006-04-01 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.

The Last Man 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.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

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.

Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur, 1905- 1940

He subsided, enveloped himself in a cloud of smoke and listened, half-amused, half-irritated, to Lulu's pauseless, squirrel-like chatter.

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

Line by line, stanza by stanza, the words came sweeping on with the rhythm of marching feet, pauseless, resistless.

Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

The flames of pauseless industries are here and there marked on the distance.

The Scotch Express 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”!

Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890

The flames of pauseless industries are here and there marked on the distance.

Men, Women, and Boats Stephen Crane 1885