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indefatigable
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Definition:persisting tirelessly; impossible to fatigue
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To so practised and indefatigable a horseman as Mr. Rochester, it would be but a morning’s ride.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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the indefatigable Ned Gowan would write out a receipt for the payment of the year’s rent, record the transaction neatly in his ledger, and flick a finger to one of the drovers, who would obligingly heave the payment onto a wagon.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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not content with this good deed, the indefatigable house again bestirred itself
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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In the vast laboratories of the Ministry of Peace, and in the experimental stations hidden in the Brazilian forests, or in the Australian desert, or on lost islands of the Antarctic, the teams of experts are indefatigably at work.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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when I heard my indefatigable landlady creeping stealthily up to my door
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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