It was very wearisome work, as the road generally ran across a glaring hot sandy plain, not far from the coast. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Adjective : a difficult and wearisome march. ,a wearisome person; a wearisome book. From Dictionary.com.
Roll aside the panorama of the three-hours 'Sunday service of two centuries ago, lest that which was not called wearisome in the passing prove wearisome in the delineation now. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
After a wearisome march they approached the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
As she waited and watched through the wearisome night. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Amusements they offered were either wearisome or repugnant. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Sinking into a chair, he recommenced his wearisome reiteration. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
"And now you see there isn't a less wearisome, a nicer, brighter ----". From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
But this conversation will be wearisome, so I will say no more than that. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
But with Purvis gone the whole wearisome business would have to begin again. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is necessary to go over the hill now, and the walk is a very wearisome one. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Many events occurred, wearisome to the reader, though interesting to ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Our daily work was very wearisome, having to walk from four to six miles each day. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
My work could never be wearisome then when I should feel that I was working for you. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
"Don't you think that a wearisome thing must grow more wearisome merely by going on?". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
It was growing more and more wearisome, and Tom was getting sleepy, in spite of himself. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference
To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not wearisome, but to you is necessary. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 57: Philippians The Challoner Revision] Reference
"And now I'll rest me on this sandy beach, for this ambitious life is wearisome indeed.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
He endeavoured, on their long and wearisome march, to keep him near himself; and when they reached. From Wordnik.com. [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference
But only to mention the names and the times of the border forays and quarrels, would be wearisome. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
The private family histories of the aristocracy are saturated with bitter and wearisome land disputes. From Wordnik.com. [In the Realm of Peers] Reference
It seemed a very long, wearisome task, to commit it all to memory, but she did not grudge the trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
Yet it never occurred to her the work was wearisome, because it was monotonous and often disappointing. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
The encampment which preceded the commencement of academic studies was very wearisome and uninteresting. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
A change of scenery, or the busy bustle of a march, wearisome though it be, makes the hours pass lightly. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
Love-making, dear reader, although you may not know it, is a wearisome business, even if ever so agreeable. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
It would be wearisome to enter into details of the successive happenings so great is their family resemblance. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
For the contestants, the event allows for rare release of energy, pent-up from restless days of wearisome work. From Wordnik.com. [Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Two Idols, a Song and Some Money Transfers] Reference
Poor Ben, with small knowledge of what to do, began a long and wearisome investigation of unfamiliar machinery. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
It was dreadfully wearisome to his unaccustomed muscles, but anything, he said, was better than getting in debt. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Bridget was not a first-class cook, and her limited repertory rendered the bill of fare wearisome and monotonous. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
These are the stirring sports of the mind, which finds in fiction a relief from the wearisome dullness of the actual. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For surely between Coblentz and Bingen there is an iteration as regards castles and ruins which is downright wearisome. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
It was as if, although she found the waiting long and wearisome, she were yet quite sure she would not have to wait in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
The first pioneers, after a long and wearisome journey to Delagoa Bay, fell sick and retraced their steps to Natal only to die. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
He tried to imagine what a party was like, but having no knowledge to go on, he found the effort wearisome and so dropped asleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Their bows and slings and ladders were weak instruments against strong stone walls, and the siege was a long and wearisome labor. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
I saw during the last day or two, for I felt that the constant teasing must have become as wearisome to the others as it had to me. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
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