| 单词 | monotonously |
| 例句 | At evening he would walk monotonously around the room, unable to work off a new feeling of energy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He played and then he talked on and on, as drowsily and monotonously as he could; some of the hundred eyes would go to sleep, but some were always awake. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Over on the rocks near Hopkins Marine Station the sea lions barked monotonously. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All one hears is the drummers practising; they have installed themselves somewhere and practise brokenly, dully, monotonously. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind cried and whisked in the brush, and the family went on monotonously, hour after hour. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The same families married the same families until relationships were hopelessly entangled and the members of the community looked monotonously alike. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He started whispering rapidly and monotonously in Latin with his eyes closed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Monotonously the lorries sway, monotonously come the calls, monotonously falls the rain. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The engines droned on monotonously like a fat, lazy fly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Little rats,” hissed the old woman as she rocked monotonously. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z After church I go with the Smeaths through the vacant Sunday streets to watch the trains shunting monotonously back and forth along their tracks, on the gray plain beside the flat lake. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I could hear their blurred voices droning monotonously through the window. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He shouted at them and when they did not move he came down on the beach and his dog barked monotonously. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The piece looms feet from an animated LCD portrait of a monotonously blinking woman by British luminary Julian Opie. Art Shines in a François Catroux–Designed Residence 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z His stories stay trained, sometimes monotonously, on the elite, slaves flitting through in silence. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The bombastic and empty violence, the undeveloped ambiguities, the scattershot complexities of “Suicide Squad” are inseparable from its monotonously professional and impersonal, churning but bland surfaces. The Styleless Fakery of “Suicide Squad” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z He performs in his familiar mode, like a boiler aglow with fires monotonously raging within. Aaron Sorkin Hates Screens 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z It's a wildly uneven film, ranging from the monotonously ceremonial to the absurd, with the acrobatic star proving giddy to the point of clownish. How Robin Hood became a socialist 2010-05-11T21:01:00Z The movie’s decorative elements are vast in quantity but monotonously distant, with little tactile sense or intimate urgency. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z In a festival filled with monotonously overheated comedy — so many improv scenes move from violent anger to sexed-up desire back to anger again — Bassprov refreshingly has the feel of a quiet character study. Critic’s Notebook: Tightrope Comedy, on the Fly 2012-07-05T21:08:32Z But the hang is soporific — there is not a single internal wall; old and new art is strung monotonously along the perimeter like so many PowerPoint slides — and the juxtapositions are frequently forced. A Festival of New Asian Art, Seeking a Direction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The eerie whirr of the hall's film projector leads us into the action, but the music begins monotonously. The Passion of Joan of Arc/Utley/Gregory 2010-05-11T21:35:00Z The joined-up movements blur into overwrought soundtrack territory, and it is hard not to be irritated by the vacant and monotonously frenetic visuals. London Sinfonietta/Ad?s ? review 2011-02-17T17:08:05Z “Liberal Party” moves into “funny” territory, however, a relatively groovy tune that features Stewart monotonously voicing “you were your worst.” REVIEW: Total Control's Post-Punk Typical System Anything but Typical 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z This monotonously bleak outlook made the real-human characters of “Westworld” its most dull, from the boorish park visitors to the corporate villains. Review: ‘Westworld’ Gets a Partial Upgrade for Season 2 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z On stage, a fan whirred monotonously round, doing little to dispel the thick soup of the Mississippi delta air, or the sense of frustration at the forefront of everything. Murk of the Mississippi envelops theatre-goers in Leeds 2012-11-07T21:03:00Z As actors, they monotonously rush through their lines as if at a table read. 'Raw Cut' leaves little to fear 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z His movement is rooted, yet light; casual and emphatic; rhythmic but never monotonously so. Dance Review: An Intimate Setting For a Range of Intensity 2011-04-14T21:35:48Z But a moment that has a skin-crawly transparency in the movie — Eva’s fragile self-esteem seems to be withering before us, as Ms. Ullmann’s wholesome beauty turns eerily porcine — registers monotonously even in magnified form here. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z Listening closely is necessary: The monotonously dark visuals barely function to carry the story on their own. ‘The Standoff at Sparrow Creek’ Review: Finding the Killer in a Warehouse Full of Guns 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Please note: because this isn't an action scene, there's a good chance Diesel is whispering monotonously about blueprints into this poor young lady's ear. Fast & Furious 6 – Vin Diesel, vehicular violence and a whole lot of roadkill 2013-02-13T12:39:27Z “Until I met up with my virus,” he wrote in one essay, “I was a monotonously average 11-year-old boy.” Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z A comeback that was simultaneously surprising and monotonously predictable. Chelsea v Real Madrid: Champions League quarter-final, first leg – live! 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z She was the monotonously dressed female leader in a male-dominated field who didn’t have time for the distractions that the culture defines as frivolous. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes used every trope in the book 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z "They came out and monotonously were moving the ball," Fickell said. No. 7 Cincinnati starts slow, then routs Murray State 42-7 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Arguing that emotion and intellect aren’t mutually exclusive, he traces the way passion fuels the political and philosophical convictions of characters in symphonically structured comedies that are far too witty to be monotonously didactic. In memoriam: How critic Eric Bentley rescued American theater from provincialism 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “Joker” is, finally, so monotonously grandiose and full of its own pretensions that it winds up feeling puny and predictable. Review | Joaquin Phoenix is a vivid, operatic Joker, but the movie is way too full of itself 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z They’re portentous, heavy on jargon and short on style, with one simple sentence following another monotonously. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Anyhoo, I hope the space car is more representative of humankind than just monotonously drifting around for a billion years. SpaceX’s Big Rocket, the Falcon Heavy, Finally Reaches the Launchpad 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z For all its good intentions, “Communion” proceeded monotonously toward its conclusion. With MLK-themed dance, Lula Washington delivers leaps that are well-timed in so many ways – Los Angeles Times 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z For viewers used to monotonously pro-Putin fare, it is a breath... Putin’s New Election Ploy: Putting Challengers on TV 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z That could also be said of the viewers, who, as “Free Fire” becomes more monotonously depraved, may find themselves caring less and less about who lives and who dies. Review | ‘Free Fire’ is a one-room chamber piece of depravity and violence 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z After hours of standing by, the choppers finally lifted off around midday, flying for monotonously long stretches over lands cleared for cattle ranching. Special Ops With a Studious Bent Fight Destruction of Brazil’s Amazon 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Immigrants form an essential part of the local economy, and truth be told, they also offer relief from a monotonously white population that tends toward tolerance and leans toward smugness. My undocumented friend: Carlos does the work few in Vermont want to do 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z These are false and forced frameworks, providing illusory freedom, as time provides illusory leniency when we, in anguish, let it pass monotonously. To Speak Is to Blunder 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Eventually, even perpetual pursuit gets dull, and Jason Bourne finds that point early, then just keeps charging monotonously forward. In the latest Jason Bourne movie, the former CIA assassin is just Batman on a bender 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z As the philosopher Martha Nussbaum notes, “throughout history, certain disgust properties – sliminess, bad smell, stickiness, decay, foulness – have been repeatedly and monotonously been associated with ... Jews, women, homosexuals, untouchables, lower-class people”. Disgust – how Donald Trump and Brexit campaigners win votes 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The ideas are built into the impersonal filmmaking, too; the characters are intentionally detached and speak monotonously - automatons in a rigid system of courtship. Review: Deadpan satire ‘The Lobster’ skewers marriage 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Every house is being torn down and replaced by apartment buildings that are monotonously the same. Old Houses From Canada Find a Home in Washington State 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z His one constant companion was a soccer ball; he would dribble around the empty house or kick monotonously against a wall, perfecting his two-footed technique. Miguel Aguilar: the most politically significant player in MLS 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z When I asked Alexa earlier this week who was playing in the Super Bowl, she responded, somewhat monotonously, “Super Bowl 49’s winner is New England Patriots.” Siri, Alexa and Other Virtual Assistants Put to the Test 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Will began lobbing my backhand intelligently, monotonously; he took the next game at 7 and the third at 9. Squash for the Midlife Slump 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Initially solemn, typically wonkish and monotonously polite to the moderators and one another, the three Democratic presidential candidates still managed to provide a few surprising moments during their second debate Saturday night. Congeniality Campaign 2016: Democrats continue to agree more than debate 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Mrs. Clinton is monotonously carrying forward a business model built on global political celebrity, and on leveraging political celebrity in return for dollars, as the Clinton family foundation exists to do. A Better Way to Bring ‘Elites’ Into Line 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z "Fire and ambulance. Fire and ambulance. Fire and ambulance," a dispatcher says monotonously in one recording, waiting to hear from someone on the other end. 911 calls show chaos after Delaware tour bus crash 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z This is a literally color-blind society, its black-and-white contours reflecting not only the Elders’ monotonously authoritarian sensibility, but Lowry’s own conveniently Manichean imagination, in which emotions and empiricism are at constant zero-sum odds. ‘The Giver’ movie review: Lois Lowry’s award-winning novel comes to life O'Sullivan took the next with a comparatively paltry 67 but a monotonously game Hawkins refused to hoist the white flag and pulled yet another one back. O'Sullivan wins fifth world title 2013-05-06T20:05:17Z That’s why so many of us started running, putting one foot monotonously in front of the other, moving forward. Boston Marathon: Tragedy strikes a sport’s crown jewel 2013-04-16T01:21:31Z Most will have had the usual suspects inflicted on them so monotonously that even the best of them have lost all meaning. Can the music at sporting events and ditch the entertainment 'experience' 2013-03-01T13:57:29Z Eric is studiously and monotonously devoid of almost any kind of human passion, malevolent or otherwise. Why Cosmopolis's natural born banker does not add up 2012-06-18T10:04:42Z In September, towards the end of the monsoon, the weather was more monotonously malicious and the snowfall tended to be heavier; I find two heavy falls noted particularly in my diary. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z The oars creaked and dipped monotonously; the river sang louder and louder every boat’s length. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z In Inspector Campbell's office at the Chicago avenue station Sergeant Finn monotonously repeated the descriptions, as the scores of frantic seekers filled and refilled the little office. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z And the old man muttered and mumbled in my ears, monotonously and without emotion, the history of crime connected with the place. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z One of them was rolling his sightless face monotonously to and fro, pouring out an unceasing stream of delirious talk. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z But we went on, on and up the long valley winding across a broad stony bay; and all the stony hillsides under the midday sun were alike monotonously dreary. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z In each city, the scene is monotonously similar: Reporters and fans wait outside team headquarters. Peyton Manning: Four teams still are waitin? on a decision 2012-03-15T19:26:17Z Had the telephone rung again at that moment it is quite probable that the day would have come to a close as the day before had, monotonously. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z I entered the tap-room where a good many men were drinking, while two sleepy gipsies, one with a lute and one with a zither, were playing monotonously in a corner. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z Daintry had finished, and was sitting back in her chair kicking the leg of the table monotonously; not in the best of tempers apparently. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z The sentry's footsteps echoed monotonously as he tramped up and down the wooden platform before them. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The wood-cutters plied their axes, sturdily, monotonously, never speaking, their faces expressing nothing but a sullen despair. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Another thought was at work behind this mechanical speech, a continual throb of remembrance, going on monotonously. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z As their long-suffering ancestors had monotonously done, they groaned in unison, crying to God for death, as the only release from misery. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The prairie was flooded with sunlight, and it was no longer monotonously level. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z This week passed monotonously enough for me, cooped up in my little apartment. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z All that gives you the impression of struggling with a formidable machine, that functions monotonously, with no imagination, no soul. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z We left port on the 13th of February, and for many days our time passed pleasantly, but rather monotonously, with nothing greatly to exhilarate or to depress our spirits. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z The waves breaking monotonously against the rocks near by occasionally shimmered in the darkness. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z She had guessed the peril of continuing monotonously clement. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z It became monotonously frequent, in and out of season, in all conversations and on the slightest assertion or the simplest excitement. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z I am rather easily sated, in the direct way, with the mainly "broad" and monotonously massive characters of that type, uncouth of sound, and with their tendency to be almost stupidly sane. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z My life since I saw you last has passed away as monotonously and unvaryingly as ever—nothing but teach, teach, teach, from morning till night. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z Previously television preachers fitted the stereotype of white-haired, bearded sheikhs in white robes, monotonously exhorting the faithful, in classical Arabic, to follow the strictures of Islam more exactly. Islamic televangelists: Holy smoke 2011-10-26T20:03:03Z One morning she was aroused from the lethargy into which she had fallen by a change in the scene with which she had become so monotonously familiar. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z The winter months dragged sadly and monotonously past, with their continual rains and no frost: even such snow as fell melted at once in the raw, damp atmosphere. The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z The season here is monotonously magnificent—and we look inconceivably off across the blue channel, the lovely rim, toward the nearness of the horrors that are in perpetration just beyond.... The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Tennyson tells somewhere of the immense sense of illumination that came to him once from simply repeating monotonously his own name—"Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson." Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z One of them squatted on the floor and began beating monotonously on a small kind of a drum or tom-tom. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z Firmin read to me sometimes, very slowly and monotonously, of course, but I was very thankful to her. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z Far in the distance village-dogs were barking monotonously after their wont, and he idly tried to calculate how distant they might be. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z It rained, in drops big like eggs, falling so swiftly that they welded sky to earth as with iron bars; it rained, heavily, monotonously, mournfully. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Their big jaws move like millstones, their long tufted tails switch monotonously like pendulums. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z The yelling had ceased in the vicinity of the house, and the lantern light had disappeared from view, leaving naught but blank darkness and the pouring rain, which came down monotonously but heavily. No title 2011-08-23T02:00:29.833Z But sometimes we forgot, and spoke too loudly... and in the night we heard the voice of the Sister on duty in the Boulevard of the Cells, saying slowly, monotonously: "Silence... silence... silence...." My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z A sheep-dog yelped monotonously at the end of his chain from a farmhouse beyond the wood; and at the bottom of the field short grunts and incessant bleating told that the sheep were feeding. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z But as he smoked a last cigar,—for he said that their talk had driven sleep from him—Mr. Collingwood uttered but one phrase as he monotonously paced back and forth across his veranda. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z The wind whistled; the oars plashed monotonously and sadly. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Day by day passed monotonously; we only occasionally saw writhing curves of land to the west of us; about us was the illimitable sea. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The old man’s voice went on monotonously in a low-pitched impassive tone; but the boys hung intent on every word to the end. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Sports journalism is riddled with monotonously similar questions and boringly predictable answers. Lofa Tatupu's departure is tough for one reporter 2011-08-01T04:40:33Z We boys spent our time monotonously and quietly, our life was now made beautiful by the love of our little friend Carpel. Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague 2011-07-27T02:00:26.233Z A shrill dog, who barks rapidly; a melancholy dog, who howls monotonously; and a hoarse dog, who emits barks at intervals, like minute guns. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z In this barren heap of sand and clay, we were at last free of the danger, the desolation, the sterility of that soul-withering environment of a monotonously moving world of ice and eternal frost. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z From distant fields and forests the caw of the crows winging their slow way across the blue sky came monotonously. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z Human existence is rarely a great prairie stretching monotonously onward to the great river. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Slowly, monotonously, hour after hour, day after day passed by. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z He replies monotonously, inexorably—“My accounts; I must settle my accounts!” The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Rain had begun in the early morning, at first very heavy, then fine and cutting, from low clouds which extended monotonously. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z "An expedition from the upper Presidio has found traces of a party of Americans in the Sierra," said the secretary monotonously. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Hence its monotonously average character, its failure to become part of ourselves, its lack of personal and local charm. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z Had you looked out to the front, you would have seen the bright green flares lobbing monotonously up into the night, all along the line. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z May I say that it is a little sing-songy—the lines monotonously alike in their caesural pauses and some of their other features? The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The centurion in charge pronounced, or rather sang out monotonously, words of command, in virtue of which a soldier began to nail the feet. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z And here, for a number of days, Rotha's school life went on monotonously. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z Now, piquant and romantic sensations are very valuable in South Africa, and should always be followed up in case of life becoming too monotonously saltless and savourless. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The following winter was long and cold, with flurries of snow, and rattling of sleet, and it proved monotonously dull to the two women shut in the small house. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Carriages were rolling through the fashionable quarters of the town, and the footman's rat-tat-tat sounded monotonously like a gigantic tam-tam, sacred to the worship of society. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z In the yard it was always quiet save that drops of rain pattered evenly and monotonously in the gutters. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z But strive how he might he could hear nothing but the great bracket-clock on the wall ticking monotonously. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Flying ants and gnats of every description were flinging themselves at the electric lights, and a bat circled monotonously round the ceiling. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z She was in Christian London, where the bells in the church spires chimed monotonously, chastening the savage din in her ears. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z Appleby proceeded quietly, and while his low voice broke monotonously through the silence of the room Harding’s face lost its grimness, and became intent and eager, while a sparkle crept into his eyes. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z The remainder of the winter passed by monotonously; and in consequence swiftly enough. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z But, as I have already pointed out, this work is monotonously regular. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The wall continued of the same quality, monotonously familiar; then occurred an impassable jungle that it would have taken a herd of buffalo to make any impression upon. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z More or less monotonously he crooned them over her like a lullaby. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z “That paper is the only thing that will save you,” she explained monotonously. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z The yacht slipped on through the mist, monotonously, steadily. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z His attention was suddenly distracted however, by the noise of the blows of an axe resounding slowly and monotonously through the heavy summer air. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z She sat down near the door, and resumed her occupation of monotonously peeling June apples for 'sass.' The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z And picking up Minie’s rubber ball he began to bounce and catch it monotonously. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z Papa Harfink, leaning somewhat forward, his heels under his chair, rests in a low arm-chair, and monotonously strokes his leg from the knee upwards and back again. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z He spoke as one reciting a lesson, monotonously, with effort. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z The small fountain murmured monotonously, its slender jet of water sparkling in the light from the drawing-room windows. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The trees overhung her, she knew, in the invisible heights above; she heard the moisture dripping monotonously from their leaves. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Night and day two sounding men with long rods, sitting at the steamer's bow, "stubbed" the water monotonously. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z In a metal cage between the windows swings a gray parrot with a red head, screaming monotonously, "Rascal! rascal!" Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z The wind increased and roared monotonously, changing from time to time into a solemn largo. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z The bees buzz over them monotonously, the leaves scarcely rustle, not a bird is singing. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z The drops from the eaves dripped monotonously into the puddles below. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z But the distant drum monotonously repeated the outrageous news. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z Very distinctly and monotonously she repeated the dying man's message and request as she handed the locket to her mother. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z Stasia's bed was all in disorder; the window-frames rattled monotonously; the leaves of her plants were being caught by the frost, and drooped. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z Dreamy afternoon stillness brooded over Montalme, the doves cooed monotonously on the roof. Blanche 2011-02-27T03:00:34.170Z A long pause ensued; the stars were faint and few; the iterative note of the katydid vibrated monotonously in the dark woods; dew was falling; the wind stirred. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z More and more difficultly the poor music dragged along amidst a succession of glaring spectacular effects, which monotonously made place for each other without ever forming an interesting contrast. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z The Englishmen saw the bare head and richly caparisoned shoulders of a tall priest, who swayed monotonously from side to side, and muttered Latin in a deep voice. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z "It was all a mistake, then,--the saddest mistake of my life," he said, slowly and monotonously. The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z Events flowed on so regularly and monotonously in that quarter of the world, that the advent of a tall, well-dressed stranger, was a thing to be remarked, and, Ann Packet hoped, to be explained. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z The keen-eyed dealer was monotonously calling the cards. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z The gusle wails monotonously, with an occasional trill on one or two minor notes. Serbia: A Sketch 2011-02-11T03:00:25.893Z Close to her ear a cicale chirped, monotonously bright; far off, from every hill, the frogs began their evening singing. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z Children cried fretfully, monotonously; women reproved them with high, heat-maddened voices; Jan, the giant, fainted while Gus was ballyhooing him, and it took six “white hopes” to carry him to his tent. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z She spoke monotonously, with pauses between the words, leaning back along the deep chair. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z ‘Make your game, gentlemen,’ said the croupier monotonously. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Then he fell asleep, and when he awakened in the morning, with rain drip-dripping monotonously upon tapering fronds, his back ached and he was a furnace. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Often while her speech flowed on monotonously Lilly would be astonished to look up and find her eyes resting on her intently, almost apprehensively. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The plain is monotonously flat and the hills are abruptly steep, while higher than all their heights towers the round-topped mountain of Puy-de-Dôme, which gives its name to this department of France. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z The three years' course passed away monotonously enough, but not unpleasantly. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z It was still dark; the great trees, which seemed to surround the whole house, rustled monotonously, like the rippling of the waves upon a level shore. The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. I. 2010-12-20T17:12:22.067Z You see such a monotonously genteel life had suddenly been too much for him. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z Of course another unpleasant fact is that many of the jobs that once were done, proudly if monotonously, by so-called un-skilled laborers, are now done by machines. If You Thought 12th Grade Was Tough, Wait Till 16th 2010-09-28T17:05:00Z The latter is monotonously flat, relieved only by occasional chalk ridges. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z Your father," he said monotonously, "was my only son. A Blot on the Scutcheon "Mademoiselle might have spared me that!" he said monotonously—and, picking up the rapiers, walked on through the salon and out into the hall. The Belovéd Traitor His creative power is intense and searching, but narrow and personal; his heroes and heroines are little more than one same type monotonously facing a different problem at a different phase of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The carriage-lamps splashed the hedgerows monotonously, and the horses' breath curled round the rigid form of the coachman. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The artist devoted more care to the faces of the boys than to those of their sisters, for although the latter are monotonously alike in drawing and posture, the former differ markedly. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z From the hall sounded, monotonously, the soft exercises of Princess Elizabeth, the crown-princess' eldest daughter, who was practising. Majesty A Novel Finally DeLancy spoke, slowly and monotonously: "I have made up my mind to a serious decision!" Making Money He appreciated all her virtues, recognised her exceptional womanhood: by the side of Lady Betty she was insipid, bourgeoise, monotonously amiable. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel "Some of the cowboys are looking for amusement," said P. Walton monotonously. The Night Operator The voyage was not eventful in any way; the weather was fine, the sea not rough, and the days went by as monotonously as need be. Tony Butler His listener made no attempt to arrive at the sense of the string of words which flowed so monotonously from his lips. The Missioner Roswell was alone, and as he wrote the scratching of his pen on the paper blended monotonously with the pattering raindrops. With Edge Tools At first he scarcely noticed a sound that came to his ears regularly, almost as regularly and monotonously as the ticking of a watch. Under Fire For Servia The Kid's eyes were still on the black, rock shadow through the station window, and the words came monotonously. The Night Operator "So you are found at last," she says, somewhat monotonously. Faith and Unfaith The exceptions are Lady and Miss Annaly, some of her monotonously similar pattern women, and Dr. Cambray, one of her dull and wooden immaculate men. Maria Edgeworth The threads of her own life were like that, she thought—dark strands strung from one bare pole of fact to another, endlessly, monotonously. Shadows of Flames A Novel He chatted indifferently with one and another while the routine of the council unrolled itself monotonously. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The first part of my watch passed monotonously enough. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure The January rain dripped monotonously on the window-sills while Guy dragged book after book from the shelves that for only fifteen months had known their company. Plashers Mead A Novel The methods of these men are monotonously similar. American World Policies "There was never a horse like Rustir," said the old man monotonously. The Garden of Eden Ever since Racine the one aim of the dramatist had been to make the Alexandrine run as monotonously as possible. A Short History of French Literature We made our way slowly along the grimy road, with its rows of monotonously uninteresting warehouses, and its endless drays filled with the city's merchandise. Windyridge Many voices which can sing, when they choose, one song, again and again and—monotonously—again! Bye-Ways Again we traveled monotonously most of the night, seeing only the stars above us and the weird shadows and forms of silent things about. The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion The mail plane droned monotonously on through perfect flying weather. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 Consciousness, however, might reveal what delirium hid, so, as the nights slipped monotonously by, the girl found herself waiting with a growing eagerness for the man to come back to himself. Leerie The girl who had wished for adventure journeyed back to her native village two days after the New Year’s party, and spent the following eighteen months in tramping monotonously along a well-worn rut. What a Man Wills In a corner some Hawadji were leaping monotonously to the thunder of a Moorish drum made of baked earth and of parchment. Bye-Ways It was hours since the native boat had put off from the launch, and the paddles of the two occupants had dipped regularly and monotonously all the while, with an occasional spell of rest. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War The deserts of Tartary are in general so monotonously bare, that you cannot fail to experience a pleasurable sensation when you come upon some occasional trees on your way. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] They speak without much emphasis, yet not monotonously, but with gentle modulation. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Molly sank into the depths of the nearest chair while the Professor's pen scratched up and down monotonously. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days Her face remained impassive, and her voice droned on monotonously, but two tears stole down her wrinkled cheeks. The Mountain Girl The general surface of the country was the same as that which had already grown so monotonously familiar, except that there was rather more outcrop of bedrock. Northern Diamonds At the north end of the building two towering Indian elephants swayed on picket, munching hay and shuffling monotonously on padded, ponderous feet. Clean Break The patents had already retired to rest; the old clock ticked monotonously from the wall; the windows rattled with the whistling wind, and the chamber was dimly lighted by the flickering glimmer of the moon. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. The monotonously enervating heat of the humid tropics makes man sensitive to slight temperature changes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Sister Peronelle, a toothless old woman, began to speak in a cracked, high voice, quickly and monotonously, as though she spoke in a dream. Devil Stories An Anthology A funeral procession, with professional mourners chanting monotonously a hymn to Allah, followed a casket borne on the shoulders of men. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise The agent took the message, read it, and then monotonously began to drum on the keys of his instrument. The Coming of the Law His wife had turned him out—it always sounded so funny when he had words with his wife, he mumbled on loudly and monotonously as a preacher—it made one feel quite sleepy. Ditte: Girl Alive! The uniformity of the climatic conditions over the far southern oceans is monotonously unattractive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" And so he was allowed to go off himself, and work his little saw monotonously right along. The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol And continually, monotonously, there were roarings which climaxed and died in the distance. The Invaders Still it went on, monotonously, and then suddenly rose with ever-increasing volume to a yell of utmost agony. The House by the Lock In this most monotonously muted of tone-poems the composer forgot to mute one instrument—his pen.” The So-called Human Race He did not mean to seek his opportunities among the rich, nor among the monotonously dreary poor of the city, but in a fresher field. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 The rain dripped monotonously from the trees, and now and then a breath of wind moaned drearily through their branches. In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House The man paused for a moment or two; the balls clicked about the tables; the clouds of tobacco smoke drifted among the bright white lights overhead; the players talked monotonously among themselves. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist In no period has the burden of the past weighed so heavily upon the present, or the interpretation of its speculative import troubled the heart so profoundly, so intimately, so monotonously. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Some condemned Mexican, though a monotonously familiar spectacle, would yet have been more entertaining. The Missourian Mist swathed the hill-tops and rolled along the slopes, the rain fell monotonously, and the river, invisible in the darkness, mingled its melancholy music with the fitful soughing of the wind. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 This phrase occurs monotonously often, a fact of which I am not unaware, but I don’t know how to obviate it. Confessions of a Neurasthenic Thus, if Plato could have had his way, his great common chord, his harmony of producers, soldiers and philosophers, would still have been droning monotonously down the ages, wherever men were assembled to dwell together. A Modern Symposium Do not monotonously close all letters with a sentence beginning with a participle: Hoping to hear from you ..., The Century Handbook of Writing She read the farewell lines almost monotonously, without effect, without inflection, almost coldly. A Prairie Infanta The days roll on uniformly and monotonously; here I sit, and feel no touch of the restless longings of the spring, and shut myself up in the snail-shell of my studies. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I At last he lifted his head and looked back at the big man and spoke monotonously. The Eye of Dread Unquestionably, our American life is, in European eyes at least, monotonously uniform. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures The familiar path had become monotonously dreary; she had a kind of pity for the people who had not her hope of a speedy escape from it. A Singer from the Sea Exactly the same process, of course, is used for radio directional signals, one of which still buzzed monotonously in Bell's ears until he impatiently turned it off. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Here my time passed monotonously enough, and I wished myself back to Mount de Sales a hundred times. The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware There was a thump, a slimy slapping of wet fish, and a voice counting monotonously as its owner forked his forenoon’s catch into the pen amidships. The Harbor of Doubt The plane roared on monotonously, while Bell began to wrestle with another and more serious problem. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 The gurgling still continued down the water pipe; the old sign before the front door moaned monotonously. The Strollers The speaker suddenly began to whine softly and monotonously. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The low tones of the lovers sounded monotonously through the room. The Hound From The North There was only the thick, steamy mist, the tropic jungle crowding down to the shore, and the waves rolling in monotonously from the waste of gray ocean beyond the curtain of fog. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 “He come up from Thief River last night,” answered Sassoon monotonously. Nan of Music Mountain It is the happening that meant for him the greatest setback in his otherwise almost monotonously successful career. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work This thought came to Officer Bobbie Burke as he watched the horrible drama drag monotonously through its brief succession of sordid scenes. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure The huge ships of the main fleet waited while they reported monotonously that they saw no sign of the stolen fleet. Pariah Planet A drunken man thumps monotonously at his door in the depths of night. A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy We moved at our own pace, resting our horses where we wanted to and giving them a good drink and feed en route, instead of jogging on monotonously with the Column. War Letters of a Public-School Boy The slanting sunlight met him full in the face, and the black pendant swung monotonously, 56 from side to side, as before. A Breath of Prairie and other stories For half an hour we continued monotonously on our way with nothing to divert us. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 Many a spry wight thinks it his duty to be continuously funny and monotonously merry. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland And she replied slowly, monotonously, for now she seemed to have lost even the power of suffering pain. A Bride of the Plains Mrs. Gerhardt persistently and monotonously turned one hand over in the other and stared at the floor. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel In the chronology of the little town, day followed day, as monotonously as ticks the tall clock on the wall. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Soon they fell asleep to their mother's monotonously chanted lullaby of "Nenn� ko." Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories And ever the splash of his sheaves broke swifter, beating up to hers, and ever the splash of her sheaves recurred monotonously, unchanging, and ever the splash of his sheaves beat nearer. The Rainbow The strong wind blows endlessly and the great grey waves are always rolling on monotonously one after another, one after another, in huge hillocks. Round the Wonderful World My tree-loving friends can well study these, and, I hope, plant them, instead of repeating continually the monotonously familiar shrubs and trees of ordinary commerce. Getting Acquainted with the Trees Their patience seemed equal to ours, and the second week of the siege dragged monotonously along. Tales of the Fish Patrol On every side the landscape stretched monotonously away from him in low rolling dunes like the frozen ground swell of a crimson sea—dunes covered with vegetation of a kind never seen upon Earth. Devil Crystals of Arret He went on working monotonously at the garden, blindly, like a mole. The Rainbow The character of it had changed somewhat, the rain driving fiercely now and then, with an occasional quick flaw of wind, instead of falling monotonously. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill They passed monotonously, like all the springs and winters he had known. The Combined Maze I got up and pushed my way through the bushes towards the beach on which the high tide rumbled monotonously. Hurricane Island He turned and surveyed the dim bivouac, the two silent tents, the 183 monstrous, shadowy bulk of the elephant, rocking monotonously against the sky. The Maids of Paradise Indian embroiderers depart sometimes so far from mechanical precision as to shock the admirers of monotonously even work. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Except for occasional snipers' shots at the sight of anything moving on the enemy's parapet, the day wore monotonously on—when to expose the head for half a minute meant death. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Then as the dreary hours passed slowly and monotonously, his strength gave way, and he soon was fast asleep. Three Young Pioneers A Story of the Early Settlement of Our Country But life on the frontier, though crammed with physical activity and routine work, was in every other respect monotonously empty, and breaks in the shape of furlough were few and far between. A Modern Mercenary A tree brushed monotonously against the panes—then through the sounds of winter storm came an unmistakable whimper and a howl. Jimsy The Christmas Kid The sick horse was tied to the stable-door, and stood, hanging his head with a very woebegone expression, and groaning monotonously. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Again the timekeeper's voice was heard monotonously counting. Malcolm Sage, Detective "Must I remind you that I am at liberty to do as I like in my own house?" she said monotonously. Juggernaut Now and then squads marched up and down, monotonously clad in khaki and dun-coloured helmets. The Rough Road Lafayette was to be made to go with him on an expedition where he knew he would be monotonously employed, with no prospect of exercising his energies in any congenial project. Lafayette Little waves lapped up monotonously against the beach. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army Things now went on quietly and, in fact, rather monotonously for several days; and then we met with another rather startling experience. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story A detachment of forty sabres followed in their wake; and the rhythmical clatter rang monotonously in their ears. Captain Desmond, V.C. The rain dripped monotonously off his helmet on to his sodden shoulders, but Doggie did not mind. The Rough Road The boys sang monotonously “for wind,” quite convinced that the next breeze would be due to their efforts. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific From the window—and from the love in the room—the boy looked out upon an alien world, heard the distant murmur, monotonously proceeding, night and day: uncomprehending, but unperturbed.... The Mother My life passed as monotonously as that of a clock in an old maid’s sitting-room. A Sailor of King George My proposition was eagerly accepted, and I took the command, as he expresses it, whilst he did his best to cheer up the General, and the winter has passed less monotonously than I anticipated. Major Frank The river murmured monotonously, the wind whistled, and the clouds sailed along hurriedly. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The day passed monotonously, and the day after he was seized by the peculiar discomfort of the lonely sojourner in great cities. The Hero Burdened with her inability to furnish the clothes the family needed, she complained monotonously over every evidence of the young girl’s desire to beautify herself. The Wind Before the Dawn They are bigger, and, as far as the male sex is concerned, apparently more awkward and uglier; and their ideas in religion, morals, taste, etc., are a monotonously direct reversal of our orthodoxies. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The children fidgeted uneasily in their seats and even the teacher became nervous and impatient, glancing often at the big clock which ticked so monotonously and slowly. An Anarchist Woman A string of uncontested elections would have passed off monotonously unimaginatively. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 The days passed slowly, monotonously; and as each night came he shuddered at the thought that time was flying. The Hero There was little sound to be heard but the clang of weapons, an occasional screech or splash, and Slightly monotonously counting—five—six—seven—eight—nine—ten—eleven. Peter and Wendy The days passed monotonously, with perpetual grooming and exercising, and the noonday hours spent beneath the palms, alleged to be shady. The Tale of a Trooper “They ain’t been a roof between my head and the sky sence I left this house,” the old man’s big voice rumbled on monotonously, hollowly. Judith of the Cumberlands So their life went on, somewhat monotonously after the first few weeks. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 As he stared at the house a great hound crept around the corner of it, baying monotonously, but as he saw Margarita he left off and ran to her, arching his brindled head. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty She was a dainty little widow, with a manner which she supposed to be pleasant and ingratiating but which the girls termed monotonously servile. Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall In the dark silence they could hear the rhythmic thunder of the waves pounding monotonously against the cliff below. The Mistress of Shenstone There was the legal type, monotonously emphatic, with extended forefinger, which pointed, threatened and delineated. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West The survey showed a tangled mass of forest and low hills, which seemed to be monotonously alike in every direction. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" In the silence that followed the word they could hear the little clock on the mantel ticking monotonously. A Beautiful Alien Nature surely does not repeat herself, yet neither does she maintain the eternal variety of her laughing beauty by constantly contradicting herself, and quite as little by monotonously repeating herself. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 He saw Baird make a slight forward movement, and he went on monotonously. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim The session wore along monotonously—at least to those who like Bradley took no interest in the bitter partisan wrangling—and suddenly it came upon him that spring was near. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West The navigation was monotonously continued from the 31st of May to the 10th of June. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century His days passed monotonously, but he was not bored, although he saw no one; he occupied himself diligently and attentively with the farming operations, he rode about the neighbourhood on horseback, he read. A Nobleman's Nest Outside the rain continued to drizzle and the water dripped monotonously down the drainpipes. The Comedienne In the sick man's room the time passed monotonously. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 He had began to grow restless in his hiding-place, and fiercely disgusted with the sleeper's monotonously musical whistle, when his waiting was rewarded. The Diamond Coterie The country was no longer monotonously flat, as it had been whilst the river swept along through the llanos. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea From behind the thick lenses of his spectacles the Herr Professor examined the rifle while his monotonously dreary voice continued an entomological monologue for Brown's edification. Barbarians Four powerful warriors, naked except for the breech clout, were beating incessantly and monotonously upon the Indian drums. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The woman was yet crying, monotonously, but with such a note of woe that Harley was shaken. The Candidate A Political Romance Some fellow in the corner, with a chin like a sea-urchin, strums a tune monotonously on an old guitar. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia And so for some two hours the vessel crept on, wearily as it seemed and monotonously. A Prisoner of Morro In the Hands of the Enemy The long, rough journeys which we frequently took over ice and ridges of snow in quest of animal food, I found monotonously destitute of everything I had experienced in former traveling, except fatigue. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Their cry is repeated, I admit, but the reason remains most monotonously the same. The Cycle of Spring The low and continuous murmur of Piccadilly, like the murmur of a flowing tide on a smooth beach, stole to his ears monotonously, and inclined him insensibly to a certain thoughtfulness. The Green Carnation The music seemed to hypnotize the people, who kept shuffling with their feet monotonously on the ground. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia Jim's mind dwelt monotonously on the worn spot in the library hearth rug where he and Uncle Denny had spent so many, many hours. Still Jim It was all in vain, and the soldiers remained in their camp, monotonously drilling day after day through all the summer and half the autumn. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America Slowly and monotonously he spelled out their contents. The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger Over and over he said these things monotonously to himself until they became a refrain to every other thought. The Man from the Bitter Roots If it had been intended that women should dress themselves as plainly and monotonously as we do, they would not have had the love of decorating themselves implanted almost universally among them. A Girl of the Commune Overhead in the brilliant sky aeroplanes snored monotonously. One Man's Initiation—1917 Faced with the nasty fact that if one wrote well enough, there was a public to support one, they could only accuse Pope monotonously of venality and avarice. Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast A long man, with legs stiffened out to the fire, lifted a cigar between two fingers, sent a soft jet of smoke into the air, and began monotonously: “‘Chains on a Southern woman? Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana There was a clock somewhere in the dwelling that ticked pompously and monotonously, and no other sound. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories The moon-faced clock on the opposite wall ticked monotonously and Chicken Little’s small fingers thumped stiffly at the five-finger exercises while she painfully counted aloud, partly to get the time and partly for company. Chicken Little Jane Outside, an elevator was buzzing, and a typewriter clicked monotonously somewhere in the building. Gold in the Sky Broadcasting stations stayed on the air only to report monotonously that the tragic event had not yet happened. Talents, Incorporated I heard the clock ticking monotonously on the cupboard and the wood crackling in the stove. David Malcolm At a distance a dog had treed some little wood creature, and bayed monotonously. The Thing from the Lake Divided between my studies, a few visits paid and received, and my weekly trip to Moroznoië, my life flowed peacefully, monotonously enough—on the surface. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly All night in the flash and roar and the strange uncanny smell of blood and black powder smoke, he had stood among the dead and dying calling stubbornly, monotonously: “Ready!” The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills "One, two, three; one, two, three," he counted monotonously. The Music Master Novelized from the Play “A silly love affair as likely as not,” he continued monotonously, his thin lips writhing between the ill-omened sunk corners. Chance A Tale in Two Parts In one of these an elderly, pinched little man who looked almost half-witted, was monotonously scraping a battered fiddle, for two solemn couples to dance round and round, always on the same axis. Lady Betty Across the Water From that day he monotonously accentuated his absurdities. The Folly Of Eustace 1896 For two weeks or more, I loitered around Washington, and although the time passed monotonously, I saw many persons and events which have much to do with the history of the Rebellion. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War As he made it low and monotonously, in brief, harsh words, holding no sparing for himself, Rebecca stood with her hand upon the mantle looking at him with simple directness. Lodusky “It isn’t you I hate,” he went on monotonously breathing at her. Chance A Tale in Two Parts She thought this over and over, and over and over again monotonously, while somehow the interminable hours of dumb misery passed. The Fighting Shepherdess Our matrimonial adventures have been monotonously prosperous, hitherto. Janet's Love and Service But nations are organisations of power, and therefore their inner aspects and outward expressions are everywhere monotonously the same. Creative Unity The road was heavy with dust and the horse plodded monotonously through it. Marcia Schuyler The time here passes monotonously, but not unpleasantly. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy How on earth can I find an incident to pad up this journal; what is there to write about in a route so monotonously first class! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah And the march continued, monotonously, almost like a bad sleep. The Prussian Officer And he began to chant, without rhyming, without raising his voice above the pitch of talk, what time the lute monotonously sobbed beneath his fingers. Chivalry Of only one sentence, repeated monotonously in Miss Merriman's clear voice, was she really conscious. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands The day wore monotonously along and was succeeded by another and another. A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day The place was monotonously like other bath rooms in which I had been. The Paternoster Ruby Emerging on the great plain, we had to wade monotonously through an ocean of wheat. Byeways in Palestine A younger man, his hand clenched over a wound in the breast, said monotonously, over and over again, "I am from Trenton, New Jersey, I am from Trenton, New Jersey." The Long Roll The same p. 324sounds continued, but they were caused by the grasshoppers and tree-toads, who pipe monotonously all night long in America.” Memoirs Meantime, the remaining weeks of camp life proved to be monotonously dreary. The Genius The rain droned monotonously on the roof, but there was no other sound. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Born in Rabat, where the Jew Benamor was engaged in the exportation of Moroccan cloths, her life had flowed on monotonously, without any emotion other than that of fear. Luna Benamor The rest of the day passed uneventfully and monotonously, for, with the exception of burly Tom Evert, who gave the lad a cheery word whenever he passed him, nobody spoke to him. Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines After the departure of the fleet, many months passed monotonously. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) To the adult mind, they would have seemed to pass monotonously. The Brentons Moreover, the laying of the Indian cable was eminently, we might almost say monotonously, successful, and, consequently, devoid of stirring incident. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables As the game went on and the croupier monotonously raked in the winnings of the bank, Paul suddenly divined the motive which had induced the lady to come there. High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn The frogs croak monotonously in all the marshes, as if in mockery of her grief. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 This is not so much monotonously regular as intolerably rough and unsteady. The Principles of English Versification He listened to him muttering to himself for a little, watched him as he went monotonously round and round. The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas The uniform old beat of eight and six is apt to fall monotonously on the ear, and some of the most startling effects are lost in it. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry The other passengers having in their turn been duly examined, the train at last moved on, to drag itself monotonously for hour after hour through countless cornfields and stretches of forest. High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn Jim pounded along monotonously, but steadily, with a square front, preserving all along the same regular stroke, the same pace, and the same dogged expression of countenance with which he had entered the water. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Reflections of a bright young man being smeared all over the island were things of the past now, as on the right, 10 as far as we could see, the Bronx stretched away, monotonously, endlessly. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year Something was wrong with it evidently, for the sky was as monotonously blue as it had been all day, and not a leaf stirred in the trees. Roger Ingleton, Minor There was Dicky Brown in the next bed, flat on his back, open-mouthed, snoring monotonously, like a muffled police rattle. Tom, Dick and Harry Time passed monotonously after they had examined a few stars. Islands of Space While the prophets and historians of Germany monotonously glorify their nation, the Jewish writers as monotonously rebuke theirs. Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 Silence reigned in the room; only the clock, that unavoidable dweller in all houses, that comrade of all people, ticked monotonously on the shelf, beneath the mirror, among the porcelain figures. The Argonauts For it was not the ceramella that he heard in this still hour, but a piano played softly, monotonously, with a dreamy tenderness that made it surely one with the tenderness of the deep night. The Call of the Blood Theatrical Liszt was to a virtue, and his continual worship of God in his music is for me monotonously blasphemous. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Political discussion, whether reactionary or radical, is monotonously confined to very few issues. A Preface to Politics Round and round and round again, while the ring-master's whip cracked monotonously. The Hippodrome These forests, instead of extending monotonously on large plains, plunge into deep valleys, or creep up the sides of high mountains. Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads But Jean Merle was living, and might continue to live another twenty years or more, thus solitarily and monotonously. Cobwebs and Cables Frequently a citizen became overbold and visited his old haunts instead of remaining safely, even if monotonously, at home. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail There was something monotonously trivial and irrelevant about our reformist enthusiasm, and an appalling justice in that half-conscious criticism which refuses to place politics among the genuine, creative activities of men. A Preface to Politics The fire crackled in the stove, the pendulum of the clock swung backward and forward monotonously. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag "That will make it harder," she murmured monotonously. Phantom Wires A Novel Besides, he wearies us by keeping us too monotonously on a high dead level. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric It was that of a man, who stood with his back towards them, and he chanted monotonously in a tongue unfamiliar to Sime. Brood of the Witch-Queen To Jack Bragdon and Milly, with the vivid memory of their personal wreck on that rocky coast, it was monotonously painful. One Woman's Life They are not amused by seeing money monotonously swept off the tables, even in immense sums. The Guests Of Hercules Children reciting for the first time something learned by heart speak not always indistinctly, but, on account of the incomplete practicability of the motor-paths, slowly, monotonously, without modulation. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. The general labor in the way of finishing touches on the undertaking still went on under the care of the foremen, monotonously regular. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West It runs monotonously to ready explanations, a somewhat infantile smugness and hopefulness, a habit of reducing the unknowable to terms of the not worth knowing. A Book of Prefaces After the departure of the Captain, life seemed to pass more slowly and monotonously than ever at Hayslope Grange. Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War Also she measured spaces between the figures the girl had touched, and counted monotonously. The Golden Silence The feeble-minded also repeat monotonously the words and sentences said by a person in their neighborhood without showing an awakened attention, and in general without connecting any idea with what they say. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. Mesa and flat and wash succeeded each other monotonously. Steve Yeager The reports of sittings cover weary pages of murky statement; the descriptions of the discarnate life are monotonously uniform and governed almost without exception by old, old conceptions of planes and spheres. Modern Religious Cults and Movements The princess thought that she would not mind it; it would at any rate be a change from listening monotonously to the snores of the baroness. The Terrible Twins For the music and what it said, monotonously yet fiercely, was old as the beginnings of the world, old and changeless as the patterns of the stars embroidered on the astrological scroll of the sky. The Golden Silence There was nothing else they could do in the half darkness and the slow hours dragged themselves away monotonously. Tom Slade with the Boys Over There Days and nights went by monotonously, routine merely varying to give place to pipe-in-mouth idleness. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure Beside it, patiently cracking his whip and shouting monotonously, walked a young man in a slouched hat and a red shirt, with his trousers thrust into his dusty boots. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. As my uncle spoke, we reached the sandy shore, and saw and heard the waves breaking monotonously on the beach. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth The birds of the forest went on with their song; the deer gazed at him astonished; the brooks babbled on monotonously and sought the way to the ocean. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World The march forward proceeded monotonously in the increasing heat, the men becoming more and more taciturn as the sun's power gathered. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 He was monotonously certain that only Whigs were right; but it was necessary that Tories should at least be great, that his heroes might have foemen worthy of their steel. The Victorian Age in Literature A voice from a bunk had commenced to sing monotonously. The Golden Scorpion He greeted his sister with something between a sigh and a grunt, whistled monotonously for a moment or two, then burst into confidence. A Popular Schoolgirl If he had had any journal advocating his cause, any organ monotonously and wearisomely playing the same old tune and then passing around the hat, it would have been fatal to his efficiency. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches He paused—and pressed Reay's hand again—then glanced up at the quaint sheep-faced clock that ticked monotonously against the kitchen wall. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Thousands of cannon, limbers, and convoys had been passing along all the roads and all practicable by-ways monotonously and ceaselessly. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry The huge ships of the main fleet waited while the scouts reported monotonously that they saw no sign of the stolen fleet. This World Is Taboo It continued monotonously for the space of two minutes; then the motions became gradually slower, finally coming to a full stop. An Alabaster Box By now they had safely landed at Antwerp, and had pursued a career that must have bored them as monotonously victorious. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" "You will live to be old," she said, monotonously. Judy An imprisoned house-fly buzzed monotonously and sullenly against a pane of glass, his drone fitting into the heavy silence on the face of the hot desert so that it became a part of it. Under Handicap A Novel But the towns occupied by our Army are monotonously lacking in distinction. Leaves from a Field Note-Book The summer slipped by, monotonously hot, languidly humid. Contrary Mary Again, droning monotonously, the car appeared and disappeared. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman The autumn and the early winter passed monotonously enough. Milly Darrell and Other Tales “I don't think I ever can,” repeated Charlotte, monotonously, looking at the wall past Thomas. Pembroke A Novel To satisfy capitalist interests, men are compelled to work much harder and more monotonously than they ought to work, and their education is scamped. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism No connected group of words should be delivered in a monotonously level pitch. Public Speaking "I fancy," he continued monotonously, "I see you now, a long needle-pointed spear in your hands, jabbing back the poor sinners who tried to crawl out." Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman But the far-off sound repeated itself again, again, again and again, monotonously. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" But it does not move monotonously, for the curve constantly varies. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil William scowled at her and once more muttered monotonously his opening lines: "A wolf am I—a wolf on mischief bent, To eat this little maid is my intent." More William No speaker should fall into the habit of monotonously letting his pauses mark the limit of his breath capacity, nor should he take any regular phrase, clause, or sentence length to be indicated by pauses. Public Speaking Even the few passengers on the monotonously droning cars but added to the impression of tacit conformity to the inevitable. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman But only a monotonously dull sound answered to the blows. Beatrix of Clare She had taken lodgings in the Rue Traversière-Saint-Honoré, at the Hôtel des Treize-Cantons, and Réal had immediately set two spies upon her, but their reports were monotonously melancholy. The House of the Combrays The birds stirred in the trees, and the low, long surge of the sea sounded monotonously. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 Down on the shingles I could hear the sea come thundering in with a loud increasing roar, dying monotonously away at regular intervals. The Betrayal The engine bell was ringing monotonously and the whistle sounded three short blasts, while the passengers clambered up the steps of the coaches or backed away from the track. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country From down in the street you could see her bent over the machine, her fingers pounding the keys—human hammers monotonously striving to beat out a pattern upon metal, a pattern that would never come. Sally Bishop A Romance His self-pitying whine droned on monotonously, but he nevertheless got into his clothes and pottered around the plane by the light of the lantern and the flaring fire Johnny started. Skyrider I do not say that we were always monotonously cheerful. Adventures of a Despatch Rider "Raise your head and see, raise your head and see," reiterated his heart monotonously. A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories It was so tight that it vibrated like thin wire, and it was humming musically, monotonously. Dan Merrithew "I have only two eyes, two ears," he crooned monotonously. Montlivet It mattered little that she repeated herself monotonously in regard to the state of health of herself and Tootles. The Husbands of Edith I am sorry to be so monotonously approving.... Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 The sounders were clicking monotonously when the trick man turned to the relief operator who was checking Darby's transfer sheet. Empire Builders "And paid them, too!" cried the captain, monotonously; "ten, thirty-six, six!" All Around the Moon He crooned long tales of famine, of tribal bickerings, of ambuscade and defeat; his voice rustled monotonously like wind in dried grass. Montlivet "Don't you see," she said monotonously, "it's just because of that—because he hasn't failed me while I've failed him so utterly—that I can't go back?" The Splendid Folly Without, the wind was blowing and snow was descending; inside, the housework dragged monotonously. What Necessity Knows Bertie yielded to it by a sort of magnetism, and flung himself into the boat where she and Mrs. Rolleston were already seated, but remained silent and thoughtful as they floated monotonously along. Bluebell A Novel What the beginning student will think are big changes of pitch will be monotonously alike. The Art of Public Speaking But the next time you come we shall try to be less monotonously bucolic. Prince Fortunatus Her voice was soft and resonant,—a contralto,—she pronounced her words distinctly and forcibly, and sang monotonously, without shading but with strong expression. A Reckless Character And Other Stories A year passed away thus monotonously, then another, and no tidings ever came of Archer Trevlyn. The Fatal Glove In the mild climate of Devon the days dragged along monotonously, and Jimmie's letters spoke only of failure. In Friendship's Guise Between the trials of the accused and the struggle with the small minority of extremists led by Richard Cameron and the aged Mr Cargill, the history of the country is monotonously wretched. A Short History of Scotland "Cow Run!" intoned the brakeman monotonously, passing through the coaches, "Cow Run next stop!" The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police When the ball settled again to rest, the announcement was monotonously recited: "Nine, red, odd, first dozen." The Day of Days An Extravaganza Moreover, her voice!—it was my cruciation—monotonously, regularly, desperately voluble. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches The paddles of a receding steamer churned and splashed monotonously. In Friendship's Guise The sacrifice . . ." she chanted monotonously, "with voice, hearing, mind, I make oblation. Leonie of the Jungle It continued monotonously for a long time, with little breaks at rare intervals; it was rather like a parson reading a sermon in an empty church. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes The grasshoppers chirped monotonously, the locusts screeched shrilly, both being products of the long hot summer, and survivors of the heat, inclined to voice their exultation far into the fall season. The Day of the Beast "But—" "Now, speaking of Miss Edgarton," resumed the Older Man monotonously. Little Eve Edgarton The semi-tropics and the tropics are almost monotonously green except where cultivated gardens exist. The Firing Line Day had followed night, and night had followed day monotonously, without a change in the heartbreaking dreariness of their round. Leonie of the Jungle There was a sound far below them of the striking of oars in the water, and another sound of one or two men monotonously chanting a rude sort of chorus. Macleod of Dare "It begins and ends with the Patriarch," said Madison monotonously. The Miracle Man "In—all—my—life," she resumed monotonously, "I've never spent a single night—in a real house." Little Eve Edgarton Under the soft tumult of voices the cool tones of the house attachés sounded monotonously, the ball rattled, the wheels spun. The Firing Line Again he rose; he moistened his mouth and lips, shut his teeth hard together as he took the first step upon swollen feet; again he wandered monotonously through a monotonous land. The Desert Valley "Find out—find out—" droned the voice, monotonously. The Primrose Ring And over the transom came again and again monotonously the refrain: I—love you o—own—ly, I love—but—you. Love Stories For five minutes by the little traveling-clock, she heard him pacing monotonously up and down—up and down. Little Eve Edgarton "Kruitzner" is conceived with some power, but monotonously and ponderously written. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century From that time until you attained your majority your life passed in public schools and universities, harmlessly and monotonously enough. The Baronet's Bride A female voice was heard beneath, chanting monotonously a low and melancholy psalm. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 He had sounded its joys and its sorrows, he had exhausted its thrills; it was like a scenic railway over which he was compelled to ride after every detail had become monotonously familiar. The Honorable Percival The chairman hammered monotonously for order; Mr. Daniel Harwood might have been seen to thrust his memorandum into his trousers pocket; he bent forward in his seat with his eye upon the chairman. A Hoosier Chronicle The conversation died: only the flies buzzed monotonously over us, as though we were offal or carrion; and the wind blew the dust in hail-storms against the canvas walls of the tent. Tell England A Study in a Generation The water had begun to boil, and despite the throbbing in her temples she hummed monotonously: "You Made Me Love You." Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Steadily, monotonously they kept on their way, walking in single file and in the same way which had been observed the preceding day. The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine The discontented cat, tired of her monotonously comfortable place on the hearthrug, goes out into the world, and gets nothing more than experience for her pains. The Life of Froude The rain began to fall monotonously, and he raised his umbrella. A Hoosier Chronicle The valleys seem to sprawl, and the universal olives are monotonously grey upon their thick clay soil. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The note of her hoe, a high note not quite true pitched, clamoured monotonously upon her brain. Living Alone "Made, made—made as you make marbles," Mr. Czenki repeated monotonously. The Diamond Master A dozen bonzes, or priests, were sitting round in a circle, chanting monotonously from ponderous volumes, with an occasional accompaniment from a gong or drum. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Then he raised his hand, and for a while his voice rose and fell monotonously, until Courthorne nodded. Winston of the Prairie But to make Galatea consistently inhuman, persistently frigid, and monotonously spiritual, is, if not absolutely incorrect, at least glaringly ineffective. Mary Anderson At last, however, after a tedious tramp along a monotonously level road, upon which we had plunged suddenly, we came into an old town, all grey, with the soft grey of storks' wings. The Princess Passes Across the aisle the little Jew of the plush skull-cap with ear-laps snored monotonously in alternate keys, one a guttural bass, the other a rasping treble. Vandover and the Brute There life flows monotonously, perhaps sometimes even a little moodily, but it is built upon a basis of honest materialism—that materialism without which the world cannot live. Muslin A fine mist was slanting down and had fretted the window-pane until there was nothing visible but dull gray shadows of a world that flew monotonously by. The Mystery of Mary A few hours later its engine was thumping merrily and the cable rising and falling monotonously in the casing. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West If lovers could be summoned as opportunely in real life as they are in stories, hearts would not ache so often and life would be quite monotonously serene. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories She had seen all the large towns in that part of the country, and thought them "very ugly and monotonously commonplace, but prosperous-looking,—like the inhabitants." Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Altogether monotonously in terms of pain and dirt and drug and disease the city wafted itself in and out of the White Linen Nurse's well-grooved consciousness. The White Linen Nurse Level lines of mimic waves rippled monotonously upon it, as if it was stirred by some soft wind which we could not feel. The Doctor's Dilemma All Dave knew was that a string of tools far underground was jerking up and down monotonously. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West At first he did not mind it so much, but after ten minutes of riding so, the thing grew monotonously painful and disquieting to the nerves. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories This glided monotonously by until I grew tired of looking at it and got up. African Camp Fires The penultimate week in August went on—wearily, tamely, and monotonously. Sketches in the House (1893) It is in these the type monotonously appears. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians In this prosaic travel, the days passed monotonously; but at length I found myself upon that frontier which then marked the western edge of our accepted domain, and the eastern extremity of the Oregon Trail. 54-40 or Fight Then the voices grew less distinct, and that of the man dictating broke monotonously through them until a steward approached her father with an envelope in his hand. Alton of Somasco Mab heaved herself over until she rested more completely upon her side, and allowed an enormous sigh to rumble through her monotonously. Flames Then, to a low, monotonously modulated melody, she sings a song of utter misery and passion, and, as she sings, her eyes and face light up. Frank Reynolds, R.I. An electric fan hummed monotonously and buzzing flies hovered about Agatha's head. The Lure of the North The things of day were turning to slumber; but still there persisted a clinking sound, uttered monotonously from time to time, which the sportsman supposed to be a bird. The Red Redmaynes For a space Horton's voice rose and fell monotonously as he read in haste. Alton of Somasco Inside the house the temperature was little cooler despite the punkah which droned monotonously overhead. The Jungle Girl They were mere machines that ground through life as monotonously as the wheels in their factories, turning out riches, riches, riches. Gordon Keith The singing-girls, monotonously chanting the same dolorous and drowsy tunes, with imitation guitar accompaniment on the s��b were also wont to wound the drowsy ear of night for the diversion of the guests. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 |
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