Read full poem →you may look at ’em, they ’aven’t known trouble--yet they was with me
all the time. Why, there’ve been days when I’ve not ’ad enough to eat
myself. And what ’ave fed me? Just to ’ear ’em laugh and think they
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(duration) Always; constantly; for the complete duration.
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Poetry examples for “all the time”
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Read full poem →How I adore you, you happy things, you dears
Riding the air and carrying all the time
Your little lanterns behind you: it cheers
Read full poem →tonight. And besides, one of us has just got to keep a grip on this gun
all the time. I don't hanker after being carried away and made a meal of
by a big hungry cat."
Read full poem →Fuliginous monkey, sired by old Nick."
And the nigger all the time was moving round the table,
Rattling the silver things faster and faster--
Read full poem →Gather baubles about me,
Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time
Death beating the door in.
Read full poem →And the blessed bean-stalk thinning
Like the mischief all the time,
Till it took me rocking, spinning,
Read full poem →have a voice like the lion, only he need not roar with
it all the time.”
Read full poem →Because it's Sunday -- all the time --
And Recess -- never comes --
Read full poem →How I adore you, you happy things, you dears
Riding the air and carrying all the time
Your little lanterns behind you: it cheers