"Tediousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the inside of his crimson mouth, and a target-like circling of his eyes. Deliberation caused sundry attacks on the moss of adjoining walls with the end of his stick, a change of his hat from the horizontal to the less so; a sense of tediousness announced itself in a lowering of the person by spreading the knees to a lozenge-shaped aperture and contorting the arms. Chicanery, subterfuge, had hardly a place in the streets of this honest borough ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... this, and on approaching the corner of the salt mountain, we had an incident to enliven the tediousness of the hot journey. A party of Arabs came in sight. Our men discovered them first, and running forwards, primed their guns, or lighted the match of the lock, drew their swords and screamed, making bare the right arm, as ...
— Byeways in Palestine • James Finn
... of certain old Books for Sale, by JOHN TUPLING, against the Church of St. Mary in the Strand, with Notes set down to a few of them for the taking away of all tediousness in reading. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 • Various
... the house—a snob and a greedy schoolmaster—never opened, were some of those books that one can buy upon the quays by the running yard; for example, Laharpe's Cours de Litterature, and an endless edition of Rollin, whose tediousness seems to ooze out through their bindings. The cylindrical office-table, one of those masterpieces of veneered mahogany which the Faubourg St. Antoine still keeps the secret of making, was surmounted by a ...
— A Romance of Youth, Complete • Francois Coppee
... By the tediousness of the post, and distance of place, I am still receiving letters from you about the Secret Committee, which seems strange, for it is as much forgotten now, as if it had happened in the last reign. Thus much I must answer you about it, that it is possible to resume the inquiry upon ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
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