The history of the play throughout the latter part of the eighteenth century is monotonously uneventful. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the monotonous flat scenery. From Dictionary.com.
These speeches over, the roll-call monotonously continued, each State voting as before until Wisconsin changed from. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
PAGE BOY (calling monotonously as before). From Wordnik.com. [The Philanderer] Reference
Zara paused an instant, then continued, monotonously. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
I do not say that we were always monotonously cheerful. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The time here passes monotonously, but not unpleasantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
"I have only two eyes, two ears," he crooned monotonously. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
And the rain continued to drip ... drip ... drip, monotonously. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
The moon-faced clock on the opposite wall ticked monotonously and. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
The place was monotonously like other bath rooms in which I had been. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Beside it, patiently cracking his whip and shouting monotonously, walked. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
The day wore monotonously along and was succeeded by another and another. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day] Reference
The road was heavy with dust and the horse plodded monotonously through it. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
This is not so much monotonously regular as intolerably rough and unsteady. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Meantime, the remaining weeks of camp life proved to be monotonously dreary. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Moroznoië, my life flowed peacefully, monotonously enough -- on the surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Emerging on the great plain, we had to wade monotonously through an ocean of wheat. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Round and round and round again, while the ring-master's whip cracked monotonously. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
A string of uncontested elections would have passed off monotonously unimaginatively. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Polly Ann dined rather monotonously on fish boiled with war-bread crusts, on the back of. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
But I had tasted fog and brine, and the "landlubber's" lot was too monotonously tame for me. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Fog] Reference
"Cow Run!" intoned the brakeman monotonously, passing through the coaches, "Cow Run next stop!". From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
"Must I remind you that I am at liberty to do as I like in my own house?" she said monotonously. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Outside, an elevator was buzzing, and a typewriter clicked monotonously somewhere in the building. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
Of only one sentence, repeated monotonously in Miss Merriman's clear voice, was she really conscious. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
He listened to him muttering to himself for a little, watched him as he went monotonously round and round. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Life would soon become so monotonously uniform and so uniformly monotonous as to be scarce worth the living. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
The country was no longer monotonously flat, as it had been whilst the river swept along through the llanos. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Once upon a time, on a moonlight night, three young men were walking monotonously along a solitary country road. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
After the departure of the Captain, life seemed to pass more slowly and monotonously than ever at Hayslope Grange. From Wordnik.com. [Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War] Reference
Everything went on smoothly and monotonously enough till I was within twenty miles, roughly computed, of Ghazeepore. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
A tree brushed monotonously against the panes -- then through the sounds of winter storm came an unmistakable whimper and a howl. From Wordnik.com. [Jimsy The Christmas Kid] Reference
The sick horse was tied to the stable-door, and stood, hanging his head with a very woebegone expression, and groaning monotonously. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
My hearing was affected in a thousand strange ways: I heard a swimming noise which went monotonously on for weeks without cessation. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
These forests, instead of extending monotonously on large plains, plunge into deep valleys, or creep up the sides of high mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads] Reference
"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. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Things now went on quietly and, in fact, rather monotonously for several days; and then we met with another rather startling experience. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
He crooned long tales of famine, of tribal bickerings, of ambuscade and defeat; his voice rustled monotonously like wind in dried grass. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
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