everbusy
English
Adjective
everbusy (not comparable)
- Alternative form of ever-busy
- 1864, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, page 260:
- The Country is one huge Block of Sandstone, so many square miles of that material; ribbed, channelled, torn and quarried, in this manner, — by the everbusy elements, for a million of Ages past!
- 1885, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Ponds and Ditches, page 233:
- Of all the blessings which the study of nature brings to the patient observer, let none, perhaps, be classed higher than this; that the further he enters into those fairy gardens of life and birth, the more he learns the awful and yet most comfortable truth, that they do not belong to him, but to One greater, wiser, lovelier than he ; and as he stands, silent with awe, amid the pomp of Nature's everbusy rest, hears, as of old, ' the Word of the Lord God walking among the trees of the garden in the cool of the day.
- 1966, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Proceedings of the Conference of the Region for Europe, Near East and Africa:
- The everbusy wife is generally less resentful to intercourse some time after menstruation and before pre-menstrual tension.
- 1979, Chidi Onyekwelu, The Sawabas--black Africa's Mafia, page 109:
- The Barclay's Bank was to open for business at 8:30 A.M. And the people of Ibadan, the everbusy capital of the Western Region of Nigeria were going about their business as usual.
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