"Tiresome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stairs to the inspector's dwelling, Nekhludoff heard the sounds of an intricate bravura played on the piano. And when the servant, with a handkerchief tied around one eye, opened the door, a flood of music dazed his senses. It was a tiresome rhapsody by Lizst, well played, but only to a certain place. When that place was reached, the melody repeated itself. Nekhludoff asked the servant if the inspector ...
— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
... a long and tiresome wait before the raiders appeared. The men had been told that they might sleep, and many of them had availed ...
— Captured by the Navajos • Charles A. Curtis
... likely I'd kill any man on purpose? I fell over him in the dark; and I'm a pretty tidy weight. He never spoke nor moved until I shook him; and then he would have dropped dead on the floor. Isn't it tiresome? ...
— Heartbreak House • George Bernard Shaw
... mentally formulating a way of speedy escape; he thought, everywhere he turned Lettice Hollidew stood with her tiresome smile. "I come out here every summer," she volunteered, sinking upon a step, "and spend two weeks. I was born here you see, and," she added in a stiller voice, "my mother died here. Father Merlier ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... plingers' quarters, after they had left the business section, John handed his crutches to Jim to carry, and told the astounded lad, who supposed John had actually been crippled, that limping with crutches was a "most tiresome job." ...
— The Trail of the Tramp • A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston)
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