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hourly

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1. hourly - Noun

2. hourly - Adjective

3. hourly - Adverb

5. hourly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.

Every hour; frequently; continually.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. Honoré de Balzac

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity. Gustav Holst

The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours of the day With hourly love, is dimmed away - And yet my days go on, go on. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God knows, it is as much as I can do to put meat and bread on my own table; & hourly some poor starving wretch comes to my door, to put in his claim for a part of it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels. John Fletcher

Yes, death, - the hourly possibility of it, - death is the sublimity of life. William Mountford

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