Adjective : tedious tasks; a tedious journey. From Dictionary.com.
The trial lasted a whole hour, the intention being, I suppose, to reproduce that tediousness which is so characteristic of real trials. From Wordnik.com. [Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions] Reference
Then again, what Atheist calls the "tediousness" of the journey has undoubtedly a great hand in making some half-in-earnest men sceptics, if not scoffers. From Wordnik.com. [Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)] Reference
"tediousness" upon Leonato and by his own impatience. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies] Reference
The only drawback to the trick is the tediousness of unwinding. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
Rollin, whose tediousness seems to ooze out through their bindings. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Fatigued by the long séance, the excitement, and the tediousness of. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
She would take a book and strive to beguile the tediousness of suspense. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832] Reference
Wis. 8: 16, "her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Through the tediousness, I discovered that I received a B on my epi methods 2 midterm. From Wordnik.com. [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference
One unpardonable fault, the fault of tediousness, pervades the whole of the Fairy Queen. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832] Reference
It has been charged with tediousness, and tedious it may become if not sedulously varied. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
And her mind begins to wander further now as she senses tediousness about to come her way. From Wordnik.com. [Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler] Reference
The hours dragged by, and Roy began to growl again at the tediousness of life beneath the ocean wave. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
During the ensuing days she felt to the utmost the tediousness of waiting merely that time might pass. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Young men complain of the length and tediousness of the years consumed in preparation for the Ministry. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
If thou hast borne with our tediousness, and hast not fainted -- fear not, we will inflict upon thee yet more. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment] Reference
‘Be it so,’ said the Count; ‘but how will you beguile the tediousness of the night, if you do not sleep?’. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference
Nothing in fact like a pit or a shaft exists, nor is there any thing to repay one for the tediousness of the march from. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Sadly passed the hours that succeeded their departure, and few were the occupations that could beguile the tediousness of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
They are willing to work for less, less likely to organize, and more willing to withstand the tediousness of assembly-line jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Death Of The Male] Reference
The clock in the valley struck one, as if marking the end of a time that had been interminable in its tediousness and bleakness. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Ryan Secreast's tediousness aside, Sunday was a good night for strong, funny, talented character actresses at the 59th Emmy Awards. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer L. Pozner: Fox Censors Sally Field's Anti-War-Moms Speech, and Other Emmy Musings] Reference
They take this diligence for ungrateful tediousness, and will not believe but a man may be a faithful minister without all this ado!. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
But it is divided into little cliques, each mortally afraid of the rest, and producing, in their division, a paradise of tediousness. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Such burthens have been imposed upon them that their journey to the land of the dead has been made one of extreme labour and tediousness. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
One makes an excuse for tediousness; a second makes an apology for delay; a third makes his endeavours plead for favourable reception, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Most people who tell jokes do so in the hope that they will bring their recipients pleasure, a brief escape from the tediousness of the day. From Wordnik.com. [It's Only a Joke. Or Is It?] Reference
Plato apologizes for his tediousness, and acknowledges that the improvement of his audience has been his only aim in some of his digressions. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesman] Reference
The following pages were written to beguile the tediousness of a long voyage from Hong Kong to England, during the spring and summer of 1844. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Regardless of topic, tempo or potential for tediousness, every song delivers its mandatory, Top Forty hook within a little below the minute mark. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Review: Daughtry - Leave This Town] Reference
The funniest story I ever heard was about a man, who consistently cheating on his wife, took up sky diving to relieve the tediousness of his existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Thrill of Sky Diving] Reference
When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but joy and gladness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision] Reference
For my own part, I were no way able to undergo the tediousness of the review of such things as these, but that “eundum est quo trahunt fata ecclesiæ.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
There was, besides, only the work of Abbé Manesse, and the tediousness of the means which he pointed out frightened all those who desired to learn taxidermy. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
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