| 单词 | tediousness |
| 例句 | While we may not exactly love Theon, the mercilessness of his fate — and the relentless tediousness of his arc — tried viewers’ endurance perhaps more than any other. 10 times “Game of Thrones” ripped fans’ hearts out 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The way this show enacts that frustration, though, often lapses into tediousness, closer to the worst goopy grandeur of “Dawson’s Creek” than the energetic cleverness of “The O.C.” Review: ‘Looking For Alaska’ but Finding Talky Teens 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Sullivan, whose outings at the Delacorte have established him as a sumo master in wrestling irksome Shakespeare behemoths like “The Merchant of Venice” and “All Well’s That Ends Well,” obligingly avoids tediousness. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z His are fogbound fictions that leave themselves open to allegations of tediousness and pretension. A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z There’s a tediousness to the production that somewhat diminishes its charms, the main one being the talented cast. ‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The emptiness at the heart of "American Psycho" is the source of both its originality and its eventual tediousness. 'American Psycho' boldly blends the scary with the sardonic 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Even though Onstad created a dedicated homework space where she’d be available to help her daughter get her homework done, the tediousness of the assignments led to resistance and fights. Homework is making our kids miserable: Why the classroom staple is a colossal waste of time 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Bernardo Soares was another major persona; a clerk who detailed in prosaic resignation the tediousness of work, life, the city and the futility of desire. Fernando Pessoa and the multiple faces we show on the net 2010-12-04T10:00:00Z But at the most recent chaotic council meeting, the last of 2022, the first speaker used variations of the F-word to the point of tediousness, dulling the daggers. Column: Hey, Santa, how about a fresh start at L.A. City Hall, home of more naughty than nice? 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Watching the play, “you sit through the tediousness of the every day, and by the time the third act comes around, you’re like, ‘Well, I don’t care anymore.’” With your help, Pony World Theatre’s ‘Not/Our Town’ questions a classic 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s a chipper declaration about the obsolescence of boy-girl rules, the tediousness of assumptions and the glory of creativity. Perspective | Harry Styles gets all the applause 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The plot proceeds at a punishing clip but there’s a tediousness to the proceedings, even at a rather tight 97 minutes, because no dramatic weight is given to anything that unfolds. Review: 'The King's Daughter' puts a dim mermaid spin on the Sun King 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “Better Off” is a tongue-in-cheek meditation from someone whose situation is not at all improved, while “Just a Little Bit” reflects the tediousness of everyday lives and chores. Review: Gordon Lightfoot shows pillars of his art on ‘Solo’ 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z This saved me the grief of entering four Social Security numbers and other tediousness. Filing Taxes on Your Phone? Insert Frustrated-Face Emoji Here 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The tediousness of completing task after task in exchange for high ratings reminded me a lot of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, minus any moneymaking potential. PC Building Simulator turns a complex hobby into goofy fun 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z When women in politics are not facing the tediousness of having men explain things to them, they are often up against the indignities of their apathy. Ignore, Condescend, Dismiss: Debate Playbook for Men Facing Women 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z He expressed frustrated by the tediousness of rehab while recovering from surgery on his left Achilles but said he’s trying to be smart about it. DeMarcus Cousins relishing fresh start in Golden State 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z But they complain that the rules are onerous, particularly the tediousness of documenting virtually anything that happens on the farm. When Picking Apples on a Farm With 5,000 Rules, Watch Out for the Ladders 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z “I know,” O’Reilly said, as if conceding the tediousness of the whole fact enterprise. What Trump Wants Bill O’Reilly, and All of Us, to Forget 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Curiosity does tip into tediousness, though, when there’s no new material. Feeling My Way Into Blindness 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s an hour dedicated to the tediousness of war and the idea that no one, not even Claire, is fully prepared for the future to arrive. 'Outlander' recap: The one where no one's ready 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Phone cameras and social media have depicted unflinching battlefield realism and the boredom-breaking games and tediousness that fill the hours between patrols. At the Military Film Festival, veterans are the target audience 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z While some people equate a slow process with tediousness, Beard said that’s not the case because one has to move and change the patterns as one progresses. Weaver connects cultures and generations at State Fair 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Trey Parker and Matt Stone reportedly became so enraged by the tediousness of making a game and by each other during the project that they vowed to never take on another video game project again. The Year in Video Games (and the Best of 2014) His mood was chipper despite the tediousness of his task. Belmont’s Florist Was Rooting for California Chrome 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z But the name also inoculates the event against incidental tediousness. The Comic Sans creator explains how he made the world's most-hated font 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Then again, the new directors appear focused on killing tediousness in the sequel. 'Dark Souls II' Offers More Freedom To Explore, A Truly Open World 2013-07-08T14:51:00Z Mr. Chaudhuri says the idea for the show was largely an outcome of the tediousness of commuting an hour to work, which he has done almost every day since 2001. India Ink: In 'The Commuters,' a Photographer Chronicles Mumbai's Working Class 2012-04-26T07:52:37Z For all this was the very opposite of enjoyment and diversion, it was a falling into the deadly sin of tediousness. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z J was frustrated by the tediousness of the process. Step One: A Medical School Pivot Point 2012-04-22T02:45:00.870Z Meanwhile he waited in his cell, with nothing but memories to relieve the tediousness of the long hours. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z But the child, familiar enough with the operation, is impatient at its tediousness, and shouts till the mother is frantic. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z O Spirit of grace, who withholdest Thy blessing from none, take from us the tediousness and anxiety of a selfish mind, the unfruitfulness of cold affections, the weakness of an inconstant will. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z It is this ease, this habitual absence of ceremony and parade, this national enmity to constraint and tediousness of all kinds, which renders the tone of French manners so infinitely more agreeable than our own. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z The importance of the subject requires a detailed discussion, even at the risk of tediousness. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The present one takes it to be his duty to suppress all irrelevance and all tediousness in debate. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z On which occasion we read that Mr. Weller’s conversation, “possessing the inestimable charm of blending amusement with instruction,” beguiled “the tediousness of the journey during the greater part of the day.” Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z Instead of gloom, I rather think repose would be a more appropriate expression to describe its true character; and tediousness is really a question of personal disposition. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Is there, in fact, any one who can honestly deny that a splendid exhibition-room, crowded with ladies and gentlemen on canvass, as large as life, is a lounge of great tediousness and inanity? Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z In order to escape the tediousness of spending a Sunday afternoon alone, he took his hat and overcoat. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z If at last it can find entrance in no other form, it comes in the sad, grey garments of tediousness and ennui, against which we then strive in various ways. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z With such pleasantries as these Auckland beguiled the tediousness of official work; but in serious matters, matters affecting the interests of the public, he appears to have exerted little will of his own. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z I have repeatedly heard travellers tell of the gloom and tediousness of the journey across it. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Only those who have participated in "Hunt Groups" can realise the combined tediousness and tension of the moments that followed. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Bores are peculiarly addicted to asking letters of introduction, in accordance with their system of "bestowing their tediousness" upon as many people as possible. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z “I will pardon anything but your loquacity and tediousness,” rejoined Catesby, impatiently. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z To escape from the tediousness of hackneyed tales and fables, they sought refuge in the ancient, original form of narratives of travels. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z I would rather have the Swedes than this tediousness! The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z The little King, aged thirteen years and a half, was crowned at Rheims with all the splendor and tediousness of ceremonial for which the French court had become renowned. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z I thank you for listening to the tediousness of an ancient dame so long," murmured she: "if you were not a good boy, and half a gipsy, you would never have been so patient. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z Some one in his presence complained of the heaviness and tediousness of the “serious” sections in thick monthly magazines. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Shall he beguile the tediousness of a wet day in camp with books and papers? In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The tediousness and vain longing for action pressed upon us more and more closely. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z The way is long and we shall have much ado to beguile the tediousness of it. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z They had travelled home to England together, and during the tediousness and worry of a long journey—no small test of patience and temper—Laura had shown at her best; helpful, ready, unselfish. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z The tediousness and difficulty of conveying stores is the same by land. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The verse being prosaic, preserves its colloquial ease, though with more gravity than suits sportive subjects; we sometimes feel the tediousness of the good sense of the Priest of St. Mary Ottery. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z I betook myself to books, to beguile the tediousness and diversify the tenor of my life. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z How the genius of Parry equalled the occasion; how there was established a theatre and a North Georgian Gazette, to cheer the tediousness of a night which continued for two thousand hours. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z De Rubira described the tediousness and attention to detail required of this process. Training Young People to Design, Market Apps 2011-05-09T15:09:00Z But its limitations in anvil work lie in the tediousness of the operation, when the part to be reduced is very much less in diameter, and very much longer, than the original piece of bar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Their first wares had consisted of romances which were consulted as authentic histories; “dictes, or sayings,” of ancient sages which no one cared to contradict; and homilies and allegories whose voluminousness had no tediousness. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Of this he never thought once; but he often reflected on the tardiness of waiters, and the lingering tediousness of the moments of parting. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Myself.—Of course, if grief and tediousness exist anywhere, you will find them in the prison. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Jack happened to be out, and Slummers whiled away the tediousness of waiting by opening a drawer in Leonard’s table and reading some unimportant letters. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z I told Rubinstein about my ancient authority, adding that we should be spared the tediousness of a discussion as to the manner of playing. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z The tediousness of Dan Lydgate remains as languid, his verse as halting, and “Thebes” and “Troy” as desolate, as we found them! Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The observances of the table had one merit in the Fumbally household; they were conducted with no unnecessary tediousness. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Such tediousness reigns in a University lecture rooms and in the drawing-rooms, that strong spices are needed to make life in any degree palatable. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z "To read the book is like making a trip to Oregon without the tediousness and expense of the journey." Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z The length and tediousness of the episodes may have prevented him from recognizing the unity of the whole. Torrent of Portyngale 2011-02-11T03:00:28.940Z They loved, I will not say tediousness, but length and a train of circumstances in a narration. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The killing and capturing of these, with the gathering of nuts and fruits to supply their simple larder, afforded them frequent opportunities of amusement, that did much to beguile the tediousness of their trackless straying. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z There is no tediousness of solitude to him who has within himself resources of thought and dream, the pleasures and pains of memory, the bliss and the torture of imagination. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z The cacique made a speech: to avoid tediousness, I will only tell in a few words the substance of the matter. A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 2011-01-20T03:00:07.377Z So, we should not be bound to enforced service, and we could make up for the tediousness of the winter by devouring all the books in the town library. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Men yawned while his tediousness spun itself into a tawdry flow of slow words, but the Honorable Mr. Chew talked on. The Law of Hemlock Mountain I call it a remarkable case; but it must not be revealed in its details, for other reasons besides its tediousness. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician We recognize this tediousness even in the case of the theorems of Euclid, though mathematical proof is comparatively simple. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Well, I must not allow myself to be overpowered by the loneliness and tediousness about me; I sit at my desk and will try to narrate the late events here, in regular order. A Sister's Love A Novel It is really against my principles to allow card-playing in my house, but my wife's game is by no means an invention of Satan, unless tediousness is considered one of the torments of hell. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History He had, it is true, picked up a deal of out-of-the-way knowledge, which he is willing enough to set before us to the verge of tediousness. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim Gower has positively raised tediousness to the precision of science; he has made dullness an heirloom for the students of our literary history. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The tediousness of the weary day had been so much lessened by the making of this pleasant acquaintance, that for some time after her departure the young mother remained light-hearted and cheerful. Campmates A Story of the Plains For this reason the tediousness of the German novels is abhorred as much by the French bourgeois as the "immorality" of the French novels by the German philistine. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State I have been obliged to dwell even to tediousness on these traits of the Grinder; for if they be not borne in mind, his actions and motives will seem destitute of any satisfactory explanation. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience His descriptions often deteriorate into tediousness, and the narrative is broken by far-fetched digressions. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The sameness, the humdrum tediousness of the everyday life drives them to the city. The American Country Girl The subject was the barren figtree, a striking subject treated with all the tediousness of commonplace. The Religious Life of London Or it may be the result of a chance aggregation of "railway literature," bought to relieve the tediousness of travel. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. He was a good scholar; and his discussions with the doctor served to beguile the tediousness of their master's solitary meal. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 To this its sufferings, and the too frequent tediousness of its labor, are to be mostly attributed. The Dog Nothing was more insupportable to Clara than tediousness; in her looks and in her words a mental drowsiness, not to be conquered, was expressed. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Instead, it wandered indifferently away, mumbling a soliloquy of guilt and misery. he sight of the Fool's specimen of humanity repaid Tresqu for the tediousness of the waiting. The Reluctant Weapon He was intelligent and well posted on every subject, and my conversation with him during the march, seemed to lessen the tediousness of the journey. In and Out of Rebel Prisons Yet there is one point, in a Turner drawing presently to be examined, which I cannot explain without inflicting the tediousness even of these seven upon him. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Let us omit some portion of his tediousness, and allow him to go on with his tale. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 But where the genius is so vital and inspiring as that which shines in every line of the D-minor quartette, the amplitude never degenerates into tediousness. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso After which explanatory stuff I will proceed to what will interest you more,—the excitements and tediousness of flights over enemy country. Cavalry of the Clouds The reliability of this whole procedure more than compensates for its tediousness—a defect Spinoza expressly recognizes. The Philosophy of Spinoza Added to the tediousness of it all were Matthews' interpretations. The Plow-Woman The first is a mad mystic, the second a very literary Dogberry, endeavoring to comprehend all vagrom men, and bestowing his tediousness upon the world with a generosity that surpasses that of his prototype. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 It was no longer possible to lighten the tediousness of travel by conversation, and for this reason the remainder of the journey seemed long and exceedingly wearisome. Peggy Owen and Liberty I warn some of my readers to escape from the tediousness, if they cannot value the curiosity. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Unfortunately, however, there are other defects in the geometrical method when it is applied to philosophy, far more serious than its tediousness,—defects, moreover, Spinoza apparently did not recognize. The Philosophy of Spinoza But as Archie felt about it, the place was worse really than the more celebrated slums of older cities in its pretentious cheapness, its dreary monotony and colorlessness, its very respectability and smug tediousness. Clark's Field These artistic requirements, besides the extreme tediousness of the work, make it the most expensive of all luxurious decorations—even more costly than embroideries by the hand, covering the same spaces. Needlework As Art There are fervent admirers of Goethe at his best who acknowledge most fully the presence in Wilhelm of the two worst characteristics of German life and literature, bad taste and tediousness. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Their prayers are passages from Cicero and Seneca, and they chant long poems instead of psalms; so that in their zeal they endured a little tediousness. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Do what you please with my tediousness, as I have done as I pleased in regard to your complaints. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts I could not guess why they should cut off my light, unless as a mere addition to the tediousness of my restraint. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire We must not, of course, encourage them in vicious and hurtful enjoyment, and there are, of course, bores whose tediousness is not only not harmless, but a positively noxious and injurious quality. The Thread of Gold School was out; and the seats looked as if the pupils had just left the tediousness of it all lying there. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland I can scarcely, without repeating myself to tediousness, enter at present into proper consideration of the mountain drawing of other modern painters. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Interest in the study of ethics determined by the aim of instruction Nowhere does academic tediousness work a more dire mischief than in the teaching of ethics. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College This tediousness soon raised an apprehension in the mind of Columbus that the voyage might prove too long for the constancy of his men. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers Wrapt up in the admiration of his own discourse, he did not observe that from its tediousness his audience one by one had slipped away, until there only remained a natural. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. And then, after two or three hours of weary waiting, for they did everything with exceeding tediousness and much ceremony, they called upon Pharaoh Nanjulian and myself, and we stood up together to receive sentence. In the Days of Drake I had been successful beyond my dreaming and could afford to rest, but I dreaded the tediousness and loneliness of winter. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska Nothing is more tiresome than listening to a twice-told tale, though the height of good breeding is to smile over its tediousness. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society There were other days, when the sea was calm and yellowish, of insupportable heat, of infinite tediousness; interminable and wretched hours, during which the enervated passengers, stretched motionless on the planks, seemed all dead. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal There was nothing to be apprehended of the fever but tediousness, and the further and prolonged loss of strength; but that was quite enough to have to avoid. Say and Seal, Volume II I determined, therefore, that the tediousness of study should be overcome by industry; my poverty—failing a better method—by patience; and that instead of a master I would use astronomical books. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Reference to his watch at short intervals intensified their duration, added gall to their tediousness. Somehow Good They presented an address, which was long and heavy to extreme tediousness. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 Who Florence Kearney was, and what his motive for becoming a “filibuster,” the reader shall be told without much tediousness of detail. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley It looked all right, nicely bound in green cloth, but within it was full of all manner of tediousness. The Olive Fairy Book It was remarked by Laplace that this invention was the means of doubling the life of an astronomer, besides enabling him to avoid errors and the tediousness associated with long and abstruse calculations. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Sadly passed the hours that succeeded their departure, and few were the occupations that could beguile the tediousness of time. The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale It was much like most rehearsals, and would hardly lose its tediousness in description. The Giant's Robe But it is divided into little cliques, each mortally afraid of the rest, and producing, in their division, a paradise of tediousness. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The talk of tediousness, the talk of sameness, the talk of coterie-cultivation in Spenser shows bad taste no doubt; but it rather shows ignorance. A History of Elizabethan Literature "Or of such tediousness," I seem to hear an impatient reader exclaim. Appearances Being Notes of Travel In general, strict discipline must be exercised to overcome the tediousness of the trip. Operations Upon the Sea A Study He was a man who had solved the difficulty of being sensible without tediousness and pointed without impertinence. The Explorer And yet this is, par excellence, the sort of tediousness in which devotees of culture complacently wallow. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations He would lose everything, and his niece, forgotten and tranquil until then, would give up the tediousness of her home, monotonous and sad, for an infernal life of misery, humiliation, and scorn. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The following pages were written to beguile the tediousness of a long voyage from Hong Kong to England, during the spring and summer of 1844. Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. If all novelists had had this aplomb, we should have been spared a great deal of tediousness, some positive failures, and the spoiling, or at least the blotting and marring, of many excellent situations. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 He suddenly hated the bucking tediousness of the Teal. Free Air The tediousness of the service was relieved now and again by daring expeditions into the rivers and ports, where boats were cut out and taken away from beneath batteries on shore. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 But while the tediousness of the lawyers made us wait for the finishing of settlements, Lord Peyton, who was in the army, was commanded to repair immediately to his regiment, then stationed in Ireland. A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue There was, besides, only the work of Abbé Manesse, and the tediousness of the means which he pointed out frightened all those who desired to learn taxidermy. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. The evidence which he sought to deduce, and upon which he dwelt almost to the point of tediousness, was that there was a long-standing feud between the murdered man and myself. The Day of Judgment The trial lasted a whole hour, the intention being, I suppose, to reproduce that tediousness which is so characteristic of real trials. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Formerly, too, the major had also excelled mightily in miscellaneous conversation, dominating it by sheer weight of tediousness. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights Unappalled by their size and tediousness, he set to work, and was not long before he discovered their extreme importance. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion The reception of letters from Maurice, addressed to his father, alone relieved the tediousness of the hours; but these welcome messengers were infrequent, brief, and somewhat cold. Fairy Fingers A Novel I feel this tediousness much, for I am accustomed after dinner to see dancers, or to hear singing and music. The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults; negligences or errours are single and local, but tediousness pervades the whole; other faults are censured and forgotten, but the power of tediousness propagates itself. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II See then how experienced she is in the domain of the supernatural, how, in spite of her repetitions and tediousness, she explains wisely and clearly the mechanism of the soul unfolding when God touches it. En Route Even the little tediousness connected with it was relieved by the beautifully romantic character of the scenery. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac Only so may its unavoidable tediousness be appreciated. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska The clock in the valley struck one, as if marking the end of a time that had been interminable in its tediousness and bleakness. Sacrifice At the end of this, and on approaching the corner of the salt mountain, we had an incident to enliven the tediousness of the hot journey. Byeways in Palestine I did not choose that he should bestow all his tediousness on me. Gryll Grange It has been charged with tediousness, and tedious it may become if not sedulously varied. The Principles of English Versification But Pullman believed that whatever relieved the tediousness of long trips would meet with speedy approval, and he had faith enough in his idea to risk his all in it. Pushing to the Front The excellent old fellow was prone to be tedious; they would accept his tediousness, but they would not disguise from each other their perception of it. Clayhanger If we did not know the former uses of ‘painfulness’, we might take this for an exclamation wrung out at the recollection of the tediousness which he inflicted on his hearers. English Past and Present Such burthens have been imposed upon them that their journey to the land of the dead has been made one of extreme labour and tediousness. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 The only relief from habit's tediousness is periodical excitement. Memories and Studies The tediousness, and oppressiveness, and vain longing for action, would press down on us closer and closer. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure Not that he was specially disgusted with Clara, for indeed marriage had assuaged a little the tediousness of some of her mannerisms, even if it had taken away from her charm. Clayhanger Many persons were performing on violins, and trumpets, in order to pass the time away, and to relieve the tediousness of expectation. A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 I made them my companions, to relieve the tediousness of my journey. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica I feel nothing like the tediousness of time. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. In his Autobiography he has related in detail, even to tediousness, the events and experiences of his life in Leipzig. The Youth of Goethe The tediousness of the tale is indeed something appalling to the most hardened novel-reader. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters It changes discipline into tediousness and hatred of liberal institution. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry With this jocund companion Swift relieved the tediousness of his lonesome retirement; nor did the easy freedom which he indulged with Roger ever lead his humble friend beyond the bounds of decorum and respect. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Notwithstanding the apparent intensity of the outbreak in the former and its tediousness in the latter case, these emotional upsets almost always lack real depth. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry The tediousness of singing without proper separation of the syllables is not appreciated till it has been learned how to divide the consonants. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] Otherwise we impart to the novel the tediousness of a homily without its accepted authority. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Its brevity saved it from tediousness, and the Virtues, whom the lingering influence of religion upon the drama saved from the wreck of the Morality Plays, were given a more and more subordinate place. The Growth of English Drama Now wisdom regards the vision of Divine things, in which there is no toiling under a load, since according to Wis. 8:16, "her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness." Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province All worth while work involves much tediousness, painstaking exertion. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals But I am aware of my own tediousness and I won't detain you long. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches In no other history known to man does tediousness assume proportions more appalling, do figures seem more juiceless, do the stories of heroic achievement furnish less inspiration than in this of James. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters I spoke just now of the tediousness of my watching when watching the colonies of the Philanthus. Social Life in the Insect World Insinuation seems to be not less necessary when the opponent's action has pre-possest the minds of the judges, or when they have been fatigued by the tediousness of the pleading. The Training of a Public Speaker The "Moral Gower" was his friend, and inherited his tediousness and pedantry without a sparkle of his fancy, passion, humour, wisdom, and good spirits. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country He is to us now rather the interpreter of mysteries, the pleasant companion who shows us the way to science, and beguiles its tediousness. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 From the view we have given of this class of words, we are saved the tediousness of studying the grammatical distinctions made in the books, where no real distinctions exist. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The moment they become tedious they are of interest to me as a study in tediousness.' The Parts Men Play In the evening some of the company made them pastime to divert the tediousness of the way and weather. A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. The whole charm of the thing rests in the idea, and this idea is quite extinguished by the extreme length and tediousness of the whole proceeding. Rome in 1860 Brevity.—Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.—Shakespeare. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age One of the dreariest aspects of such an experience is its tediousness and loneliness. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I As a consequence, the world bestowed its tediousness upon him, to the detriment of his happiness and health. Americans and Others The mariners, in their usual way of sporting, endeavoured to make him some pastime, to divert the tediousness of his stay and of the bad weather. A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. There is not a Sermon that does not furnish evidence of originality without extravagance, of discrimination without tediousness, and of piety without cant or conventionalism.” Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series You deserve that I should bestow all my tediousness upon you, for loving me as well as you do. Records of a Girlhood Whether they all felt the beauties, or languished over the tediousness of "The Faerie Queen," and the "Arcadia" of Sidney, at least her majesty gave a vogue to such sentimental and refined romance. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Young men complain of the length and tediousness of the years consumed in preparation for the Ministry. The Young Priest's Keepsake They are meant for man in the world, and designed to render family worship full, without tediousness. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science If thou hast borne with our tediousness, and hast not fainted—fear not, we will inflict upon thee yet more. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment One, touched by the cares, the tediousness, and the reverses which seem to be inevitably attached to lawsuits, offered, without any reward, to judge and settle all causes submitted to him. The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney His work is described by one word—'preaching'; out of which all modern associations, which have too often made it a synonym for long-winded tediousness and toothless platitudes, must be removed. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII In spite of the awful tediousness of his mannerism of antithetical epigram, he does occasionally write finer epigrams than ever. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 There were hours when it seemed to her that she had never learned the meaning of tediousness until the plain but hopeful Miss Spencer came to live with her. One Man in His Time But even the best circumstances could do little to lighten the insufferable tediousness of his confinement. Bressant But the same cleverness which makes Walpole's correspondence always readable saves his romance from the unpardonable sin—in literature—of tediousness. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century "She shall be here soon," replied Lady Stanley, and she went away to seek the truant sister, leaving her husband to beguile the tediousness of the time by engaging in conversation with his brother. Heiress of Haddon There are lots of books circulated by Mudie's that I strongly object to—books that make me furious—as regards both moral and physical heaviness and tediousness and general tommy-rot. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Our friend and brother in the faith, Erasmus Calman, lightened the tediousness of a long day's journey by repeating to us some Hebrew poetry. The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes— I will be brief. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Show the place in the action of the hurrying on of scene iv, and the tediousness of scene v, and of both on the humor of the Play. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies "I beg your pardon, my bonnie lassie," he said, "I thought to relieve, somewhat, the tediousness of the hour." Elsie's Motherhood But when the situation arrives and has to be dealt with—what a mess, what falseness, what wrenching, what sickly smoothing, what ranting, and what terrific tediousness! Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Consequently, the above humble efforts of wit were not to be despised, and served to beguile the tediousness of the long winter's night. Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs Nor would Italy be raised higher by valor and feats of arms, than by its language, did not the fatigue and tediousness of using the file disgust every one of our poets. The Works of Horace Howbeit then, but it is long to relate, 'tis weariness of mind, 'tis confusion of the senses, 'tis tediousness to hearers, 'tis superfluity of narration to go over the same things twice. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes Imagine the tediousness of a journey in Italy. Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) To chronicle the small events which occurred in that Arcadian parish, would be to overstep the bounds of permissible tediousness. A Tale of a Lonely Parish He was now visited in his dungeon by crafty familiars of the inquisition, who, under pretence of sympathy and kindness, came to beguile the tediousness of his imprisonment with friendly conversation. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists According to this gentleman, the crew never felt more severely the tediousness of confinement to the ship, or were more tired of salt provisions. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 On the contrary it would lose its present monotony and tediousness. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Thus, humbly desiring pardon for my tediousness, I leave your lordship to the tuition of the Almighty. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. The Prince agreed and invited Herrfurth to lunch, but afterwards told Bismarck he could not stand him, "with his bristly beard, his dryness and tediousness." William of Germany The alchymist, supposing him, like himself, absorbed in the study of alchymy, endeavoured to cheer the tediousness of his recovery by long conversations on the art. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists To beguile the tediousness of the voyage it was proposed to give a concert in the saloon of the ship—an entertainment to which all capable of amusing their fellow-voyagers should contribute. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 High omens ask diviner guess; Not to be conned to tediousness And know my higher gifts unbind The zone that girds the incarnate mind. Poems Household Edition And I my story will delay to end Rather than by my tediousness offend. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 I remember how vividly he reproduced a probable scene in the great old banqueting-room, and how graphically he imagined the life of ennui and every-day tediousness that went on in those lazy old times. Yesterdays with Authors To avoid tediousness, the eminent compositions of the English school may be reduced to two classes—lyrical and sacred; or, as some would divide it, into three, adding madrigalists. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 473, January 29, 1831 It will relieve, in some measure, the tediousness of this separation. The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton Lengthy is used chiefly of discourses or writings, and implies tediousness. Practical Exercises in English Whether it may be greater literature is another matter; if it escapes tediousness it may impress by its weight. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 There are others to whom idleness dictates another expedient, by which life may be passed unprofitably away without the tediousness of many vacant hours. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler With regard to the tediousness of the writings referred to above, it is to be observed in general that there are two kinds of tediousness—an objective and a subjective. Essays of Schopenhauer The litigation over these confused titles dragged on with interminable tediousness. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 Even killing--exciting as an incident--becomes monotonous when it is continued ad infinitum, and no other occurrence ever comes to vary its tediousness. The Story of Ireland She would take a book and strive to beguile the tediousness of suspense. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832 Having his mind completely busied between his warehouse and the 'Change, he felt no tediousness of life, nor any want of domestick amusements. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler The objective form of tediousness springs from the deficiency of which we have been speaking—that is to say, where the author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. Essays of Schopenhauer In common parlance, to avoid tediousness, to save time, and to adapt language to circumstances, we usually utter words with great rapidity, and in comparatively short quantity. The Grammar of English Grammars The hours dragged by, and Roy began to growl again at the tediousness of life beneath the ocean wave. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles A man like Cicero was very good company, and somewhat of a lion besides; and country neighbours, wherever he set up his rest, insisted on bestowing their tediousness on him. Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers I am forced upon a thousand shifts to enable me to endure the tediousness of the day. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler Again, subjective tediousness is merely relative: this is because the reader is not interested in the subject of the work, and that what he takes an interest in is of a very limited nature. Essays of Schopenhauer One makes an excuse for tediousness; a second makes an apology for delay; a third makes his endeavours plead for favourable reception, &c. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada But are we likely to feel more kindly towards such people as those of whom we are now complaining, because all their triviality, and smallness, and tediousness are displayed at wearisome length on paper? Famous Reviews Often they were disappointed and talked a great deal about the tediousness of the Mexican War and the delays of Captain Frémont's company. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate The hours dragged by with an excruciating monotony and tediousness. The Aspirations of Jean Servien At the dead of night she beheld a spectre; she recognized her husband: they shared their provisions; and a son was the fruit of these stolen interviews, which alleviated the tediousness of their confinement. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 It has all the vitality of error and all the tediousness of an old friend. Intentions The young ladies beguiled the tediousness of the ride by eulogising Mr. Horatio Sparkins, scolding their mamma for taking them so far to save a shilling, and wondering whether they should ever reach their destination. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. Ponkapog Papers Two incidents broke the tediousness of the march. A Princess of Mars With such conversation, possessing the inestimable charm of blending amusement with instruction, did Mr. Weller beguile the tediousness of the journey, during the greater part of the day. The Pickwick Papers It was tediousness made tangible, a street builded of lassitude and of futility. Main Street We have not space to follow Fred through the tediousness of the following week. The Errand Boy "Art," he continued, with a wave of the hand, "is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life." Of Human Bondage It seemed to me that they must slack out more links of one of the tigers' chains, or let the vile play linger into mere tediousness. The Lost Continent The carriage stopped, the door was opened, and Napoleon, breaking through all the tediousness of ceremony, introduced himself to his bride, and came with her to Soissons. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827) She had no ecstatic indulgence in the sense of guilt which is, to the women of Main Street, the surest escape from blank tediousness. Main Street "One is rather glad to have such a relief against the tediousness of a sea-passage," said Sir George as they went down the ladder. Homeward Bound or, the Chase His very great friendship for the rector had induced him to take this office upon himself, though he well knew the trouble and tediousness attending it, and the ingratitude with which it was always repaid. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor The tediousness of the Ciceroni was to me intolerable. Anna St. Ives I wrote on my slip—still concealing it from Mrs. Vulpes—a series of questions, which, to avoid tediousness, I shall place with the responses in the order in which they occurred. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 The poem is in parts charmingly written, but the oak is certainly "garrulously given," and comes perilously near to tediousness. The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson They were stern in their sanctity, kept a vigilant eye upon my giggling companions and myself, and shook a rebuking finger at any boyish device to relieve the tediousness of compulsory devotion. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Something very entertaining caught her ear every now and then; but, with her eyes fixed in the necessary direction, it was impossible to make it out, through the aid-de-camp's never-ending tediousness. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 The former made the lapse of some hours appear like the tediousness of weeks and months. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker But Hamlet, in his discourse with that wise reasoner, and unfortunate practitioner, who thought that brevity was the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, puts it more briefly still. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded The tediousness and overwrought sentimentality of these works go far towards disqualifying the reader from appreciating their extraordinary skill in invention and in the portraiture of character. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Often, indeed, the tediousness of a learned disquisition is intentional: it is considered one of the polite conventions of the academic guild, and by many is identified with scientific thoroughness and profound learning…. Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history The diction is much less stilted than Seneca's or Persius's; the thoughts mostly correct, though rather tame; and the descriptions accurate even to tediousness. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius To beguile the tediousness of the time they endeavoured to converse, but the minds of Emilia and Julia were too much affected by the late occurrence to wander from the subject. A Sicilian Romance No," said he, yawning, "one can tolerate nothing! one's patience is wholly exhausted by the total tediousness of every thing one sees, and every body one talks with. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 When I saw this thou may'st be sure, I felt quite ready to endure Thy tediousness by night or day, While mother on a sick-bed lay. The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects Why should I bestow all my tediousness upon you, because I have you in my power, and have ink, paper, and time before me? Rob Roy — Volume 01 The tediousness of the delay was considerably relieved by a man sitting beside me avowing himself a thorough Abolitionist, and a hearty friend of the coloured race. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States I hope during the winter, if we have any, to send you many amusing books to shorten the tediousness of time, and charm away your indisposition. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 Company is, I think, considered as a supply of pleasure, and a relief of that tediousness of life which is felt in every place, elegant or rude. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature O butler, we have been in passion at thy tediousness. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 It is a series of empty leaves on which tediousness is hand in hand with lack of moral sense, it is a pale picture full of falsehood—such is "Le Docteur Pascal." So Runs the World He is as rich in humor as Fielding, without his coarseness; as inventive as Swift, without his bitterness; as moral as Richardson, without his tediousness. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women It was tedious, but after all, the tediousness didn't matter much when I came to think of it. The Powers and Maxine I have alluded to the tediousness which marks the works of these writers; and in this connection it is to be observed, generally, that tediousness is of two kinds; objective and subjective. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature But the person whose kind offices and friendly sympathy did far more than those of any other to relieve the tediousness of my confinement, and to keep my heart from sinking, was Mr. Wood. Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton For Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail How could it produce any other impression than that of tediousness? So Runs the World This tediousness of suits keeps the parties in disquiet and perturbation, rouses and perpetuates animosities, exhausts the litigants by expense, retards the progress of their fortune, and discourages strangers from settling. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons The tediousness of these people is certainly provoking. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Let me, at the risk of tediousness, proceed to bring these generalities to a point by a few instances,—not intending to exhaust the topic, but only to exemplify the method of approaching it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 It must, however, be conceded that the kings themselves are fully aware of the tediousness of their dinner parties, and would lighten the boredom if they could; but etiquette forbids. Temporal Power Of course, it is so natural to be popular by means of 'wearisome tediousness,' that Schlosser, above all people, should credit such a tale. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater In this present age of rapid and easy transition from place to place, it is difficult to form a just conception of the tediousness, hardships, and duration of those early emigrations to the West. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" After a while, getting tired of his tediousness, I called another lady to my side, to see if she could not make him talk. History of King Charles the Second of England While a mere boy, he could not stand the tediousness of ordinary life, and so betook himself to the forest where he could hunt and play knight. History of American Literature This is the method of the tediousness, in which it showed itself akin to many a rhyming tale. Playful Poems The only drawback to the trick is the tediousness of unwinding. Healthful Sports for Boys Among the diversions which serve to while away the tediousness of those winter nights are included the narration of personal adventures passed through by the different hunters in their wild life. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" But I am very glad something of this kind has occurred to me; it may while away the tediousness of this unsettled, unoccupied, unpleasant period. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 Bishop Newton, in writing his own life, was at full liberty to declare how much he himself and two eminent brethren were disgusted by Mr. G.'s prolixity, tediousness, and affectation. Memoirs of My Life and Writings One vessel only "in great torment of weather and peril of drowning"* reached home safely, "all the men tired with the tediousness of so unprofitable a voyage to their seeming." English Literature for Boys and Girls Her friends genuinely regretted her, and forgot the tediousness of her sciatica. The Old Wives' Tale After a tiresome journey, partly walked, partly ridden, which was somewhat relieved of its tediousness by the romantic and beautiful scenery through which we passed, we came in view of Mount Vernon. Town and Country; or, life at home and abroad, without and within us Long conversations in Persian and Hindustani abridged the tediousness of the voyage, and when we arrived at Bulak, the polite Khudabakhsh insisted upon my making his house my home. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 Then began a journey the dangers and tediousness of which can hardly be described. Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life There was a tediousness in the examinations incident to such occasions, and, as repeated inquiries were propounded, Beulah rejoiced at the prospect of release. Beulah Mr. Secretary frets at their tediousness, but hopes great things from it, though he owns four or five princes are in the secret; and, for that reason, I fear it is no secret to France. The Journal to Stella But if by reason of the tediousness of so long a journey they thought it not best so to do, then he granted liberty to his subjects to bargain and to traffic with them. Discovery of Muscovy Where both similarities are combined, we may be most happy in the society of our counterpart; but where the link between the hearts is wanting there will always be great tediousness in great similarity. The King's Highway So I thought I would come and bestow my tediousness on you. Sybil, or the Two Nations Nothing can exceed the labor and tediousness of this operation. The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile Criminal courts, either from the tediousness of their process, or from the frequent escape of culprits from their decision, were seldomer convened than formerly. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson How the genius of Parry equalled the occasion; how there was established a theatre and a North Georgian Gazette, to cheer the tediousness of a night which continued for two thousand hours. Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage The want of graphic description of localities in which the events have occurred, is the principal cause of that tediousness which generally accompanies the steady perusal of a sporting work. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon During the ensuing days she felt to the utmost the tediousness of waiting merely that time might pass. Two on a Tower With such contemplations he performed his voyage less anxiously, which much abated the tediousness thereof and was a comfort and refreshment to him in his solitude and danger. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies He was relieved from the tediousness of doing this by hearing voices outside; and in a minute his father entered. The Trumpet-Major My lord broke off in the midst of an account of the morning's bear-baiting which the tediousness of the Indians had caused us to miss. To Have and to Hold Without testifying friendship, esteem, or compassion, he asked, among other things, in an authoritative tone, how I could employ my time to prevent tediousness? The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 I have again begun my life of sterile monotony, unvarying labour, the dull return of dull exercises in dull uniformity of tediousness. Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 Arthur was so much charmed with seeing his wife so happy, that, forgetting all his fears of tediousness, he partook the enjoyment of her anticipations. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife In the first place, there was no knowledge of history; learning was, due to its dullness and tediousness, refused; learned compilations, vast collections of extracts and the slow work of criticism were held in disdain. The Ancient Regime Her quick fingers, keen eyesight, and uncanny memory made the work seem simple, and neither the tediousness of repairing miles of circuitry nor the depressing environment of Olympus Station seemed to bother her. The Lani People Words can not express the tediousness of that return journey. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair Orme, inferior to no English historian in style and power of painting, is minute even to tediousness. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 That very afternoon Harry began Euclid, and soon found quite enough of interest on the road to the quadrant, to prevent him from feeling any tediousness in its length. David Elginbrod Young Sennett, however, could always be relied upon to break the tediousness of the domestic dialogue. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green Probably the London papers would record it next day, a further tediousness on their part. Michael I came to see you, to "bestow some of my tediousness upon you," but you were gone from home. Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion Prose writers are voluminous and unwieldy; their pages crowded with commonplaces, and their thoughts expanded into tediousness. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Then again, what Atheist calls the “tediousness” of the journey has undoubtedly a great hand in making some half-in-earnest men sceptics, if not scoffers. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Their tongues a little loosened by the punch, the old folks would have sung his praises to the verge of tediousness had he not almost sternly interrupted them. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green Plato apologizes for his tediousness, and acknowledges that the improvement of his audience has been his only aim in some of his digressions. Statesman Plato is conscious of the change, and in the Statesman expressly accuses himself of a tediousness in the two dialogues, which he ascribes to his desire of developing the dialectical method. Sophist But I assure you that of all the monsters that wait on what you would call a normal existence the one I dread most is tediousness. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so: Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil, Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness. The Merchant of Venice In a word, the captain was beguiling the tediousness of attendance at court, by an attempt at authorship; and was rewriting and extending his travelling notes, and making maps of the regions he had explored. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Alvarado had frequently visited Hernando Pizarro in his confinement, where, to beguile the tediousness of captivity, he amused himself with gaming, - the passion of the Spaniard. History of the Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas The difference here is not due to temperamental freshness or tediousness; the result depends only upon a correct or incorrect psychological handling of the participants. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The False another portion sought, The True with tediousness were fraught, The Best could not be bought. The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres Only, to alleviate the tediousness of the duty, Athos allowed him to take a loaf, two cutlets, and a bottle of wine. The Three Musketeers Alvarado had frequently visited Hernando Pizarro in his confinement, where, to beguile the tediousness of captivity, he amused himself with gaming,—the passion of the Spaniard. History of the Conquest of Peru Besides, the competitor in a donkey race is not, let it be borne in mind, limited to the practice of his own tediousness. The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard What these were I must now relate, although, I fear, at the risk of some tediousness. Rupert of Hentzau Much of the tediousness of highly civilized life comes from its smoothness and regularity. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things I wish I could, in some measure and without tediousness, convey the effect of his discourses to General Assembly in Big Hall. The New Machiavelli |
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