ever-abiding

Or in its more theoretical stance, the ever-abiding sense of "lack" in life -- the idea proposed by the novel that one is never satisfied despite a temporary sojourn in Ischia?

Karin Badt: Paris is No Paradise: Benoit Jacquot's "Villa Amalia" with Isabelle Huppert 2009

And to them, it did seem right and meet that there should be strange things, and fires from the earth, and an ever-abiding night, and monsters, and matters hid and tangled much in mystery.

The Night Land 2007

And for this reason the fixed stars were created, to be divine and eternal animals, ever-abiding and revolving after the same manner and on the same spot; and the other stars which reverse their motion and are subject to deviations of this kind, were created in the manner already described.

Timaeus 2006

Sacred to what deity would be this awful chasm and that dark grove, over which hovers an ever-abiding “pillar of cloud”?

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

He had lived too many years in the Limits under the ever-abiding shadow of the Guild where the indwellers spoke with awe and dread of what that organization could do and had done in the past.

Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986

Though his robe was not tattered, it was bespattered with dirt and foulness, and he believed that his appearance was little better than when the lordly ones had led him forth from this place of ever-abiding terror and despair.

Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986

How could he wish to marry again, when his wife was all the time by his side -- an ever-present, ever-abiding comfort and consolation?

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

He pitied them, for their lives were as hard as his own, and when he could he helped them, for among the wanderers in Bohemia there is an ever-abiding comradeship.

The Hippodrome Rachel Hayward

Once recognize that Christ asks for nothing impossible, when He gave a new and ever-abiding authority to this ancient precept, and the question will not be, Who does it?

Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd

Is not that man great and noble, whose honest path lies straight within the precincts of righteousness? who has lifted himself above the power of sordid influences, who looks upon mortal throes as the stepping-stones to immortal joys? that man to whose watchful eyes the shallow side of nature is ever uppermost, he who serves but one master, whose only policy is honesty, whose only stimulus is the ever-abiding promise of

The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera