"Unflagging" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... girl, Anisty, the jewels, himself: unflagging, his thoughts circumnavigated the world of his romance, touching only at these four ports, and returning always to linger longest in the ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... had no ambition; there was no desire to make himself known, or put his productions forward. He was content with receiving liberal wages, such as the master, with the generosity of a true artist, paid to him. But for the unflagging care he expended upon his work, his fellow-craftsmen would have ...
— Cobwebs and Cables • Hesba Stretton
... by James Geikie, is a book that unites the popular and abstruse elements of scientific research to a remarkable degree. The author recounts a story that is more romantic than nine novels out of ten, and we have read the book from first to last with unflagging interest."—Boston ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
... was continued with unflagging vigour, in the absence of the gallant rear-admiral, who, as another lyrist of the event informs us, ...
— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott
... narrow isthmus which separates the Zuyder Zee from the German Ocean. The distance from sea to sea is hardly five English miles across. Westerly from the city extended a slender strip of land, once a morass, then a fruitful meadow; maintained by unflagging fortitude in the very jaws of a stormy ocean. Between the North Sea and the outer edge of this pasture surged those wild and fantastic downs, heaped up by wind and wave in mimicry of mountains; the long coils of that rope of sand, by which, plaited ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
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