Adjective : a dull knife. ,a dull sermon. ,a dull day; a dull sound. ,a dull day in the stock market. ,a dull pain.    From Dictionary.com. 

You are sometimes wearisome and wearied; you call your dulness melancholy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lily of the Valley] Reference

Perhaps one ought not to use the word dulness, because it may be misunderstood.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a College Window] Reference

Now I know that the idea of dulness or discomfort at Christmas is a very improper one, particularly in a story.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World] Reference

His book is lively without being flippant, and full of information without that dulness which is apt to be the evil demon of statistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference

What you call dulness I call repose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

Page 240: 'dulness' is correct -- from Oxford Online Dictionary: dull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 20, 1893] Reference

The kind of dulness of which I speak is not inconsistent with a high degree, not only of practical, but even of mental, ability.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a College Window] Reference

And what is this dulness that hangs o'er thee now?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference

One day his master, vexed by his dulness, cried out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

"Is there naught to stir him from these hours of dulness?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Is it dulness itself that the most ably listens to dulness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

They must aspire to be dull, and be proud of their dulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

He ought not, however, to be too severely handled for his dulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

November is a month of very great dulness in Gardening matters, from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

No, it is these things which constitute the dulness and the stupidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral] Reference

These are general dulness, stiffness, prostration and loss of appetite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

They must emulate one another's dulness, or they are unfaithful votaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

More likely, it was because of the inborn dulness and lethargy of his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference

But I cannot vindicate Kingston society against the charge of surpassing dulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Page 113: Spelling of pourtrayed and dulness left as taken from original quotation.    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

The result, as might have been expected, was an entertainment of conventional dulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

Her skin was sallow and unwholesome; yellow-gray rings added dulness to her black eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

I shall say I have suggested it in order to vary the terrible dulness of your existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference

He is a chap who will do anything to vary the dulness of his life and earn a little money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference

Hostler to change horses; but dulness, uniformity, and most tiresome and unromantic safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

If it is the dulness of the place that is driving you abroad, I am sorry we ever came here. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

Britain appears last -- the dulness which has blessed, which blesses, and which shall bless her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

It was not any congenital dulness or want of sense that made the Sagas generally averse to elegy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

Loss of appetite, dulness, restlessness, abdominal pain and haemorrhage are the symptoms commonly noted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

"I was dying of dulness," she said, telling him about the place she came from, "and so I came to see you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

And now this mindless, fox-hunting squire was to carry her off, and life at Rudham would sink into one dead level of dulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

When enlightened, she wondered with reason at her dulness in not having before discovered a matter of such surpassing interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Usually the first symptoms noticed are sneezing, dulness, diminished appetite and a watery discharge from the nostrils and eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Here he awaited the arrival of the Mouse, who presently returned, full of pretended sympathy for the dulness of the Sentry's life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference

The positive habit of mind in the Icelanders is enough to secure them against a good deal of the conventional dulness of the Middle Ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

But not to multiply instances, let any youth, oppressed with heaviness of brain or dulness of intellect, judiciously try the experiment of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference