"Relentlessness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... many enemies. His overbearing vanity, his relentlessness in dealing with any who stood in his path, and the exposure of his use of agents-provocateurs in securing the conviction and imprisonment of anyone who displeased him, had aroused against him a fierce hatred in certain quarters both ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux
... find you out. Be sure of this. All our phrases about lanes that have no turning and the mills of the gods and justice that smites with iron hand, and chickens that come home to roost—all these are only names for God's unsleeping vigilance, all varied statements of the relentlessness of sin. ...
— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles
... Dr. Inglis seemed to me—since, after all, she was human—to have the faults of her qualities. No consideration of herself prevented her complete devotion to her work. I sometimes felt that there was an element of relentlessness in this devotion, which would have allowed her to sacrifice not only other people, but even perhaps considerations which it is not easy to believe ought to be sacrificed. It is extraordinarily difficult to judge how far ...
— Elsie Inglis - The Woman with the Torch • Eva Shaw McLaren
... first was his eyes. For it is not the part of youth to be stern-eyed; and while this man could not be more than midway between twenty and thirty, his eyes had already acquired the trick of being hard, steely, suggesting relentlessness, stern and quick. Tall, lean-bodied, with big calloused hands, as brown as an Indian, hair and eyes were uncompromisingly black. He belonged ...
— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory
... of bones, sometimes bleached like old ivory, sometimes of a dreadful red, which told of wayside tragedies. Always when they had come in sight of a skeleton, Maieddine had found some excuse to make the girl look in another direction; for he wanted her to love the desert, not to feel horror of its relentlessness. ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
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