Adjective : weary eyes; a weary brain. ,a weary journey. ,weary of excuses. ,a weary wait. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : The long hours of work have wearied me. ,The long drive had wearied us of desert scenery. We had quickly wearied at such witless entertainment. From Dictionary.com.
Lembit alone is the kind of wearying bore I would hack my own arm off to escape if the situation demanded it. From Wordnik.com. [I'm a Celebrity: what effect will Nigel Havers' exit have on the show?] Reference
The staging is kind of wearying too, and the arrangement is early-'70s crass, but at least it's entertaining. From Wordnik.com. [What the '70s Called a Hit Musical] Reference
And then she added that she thought his mother was "wearying" to see him, and that he should go home soon. From Wordnik.com. [Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not] Reference
It had been something more than "wearying," -- that dull pain that had ached at Lilias 'heart since they parted. From Wordnik.com. [The Orphans of Glen Elder] Reference
The letters, which told the bairns, in their Canadian home, that their dear friend was ill, and "wearying" for them, told them little of the terrible suffering of that time. From Wordnik.com. [Janet's Love and Service] Reference
And yet the aspect of Versailles is sadly wearying. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
A clear tone is restful, but a loud one is wearying. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
After wearying the readers on this and numerous other. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Succeeded in wearying him by her importunities and tenderness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Study for the first time in his life required wearying effort. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
I found it somewhat wearying but actually a great moment in my life. From Wordnik.com. [Kagan's Wit Helps Her Court Favor] Reference
"It seems right long and wearying waiting, waiting for the meaning.". From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
She had only succeeded in wearying him by her importunities and tenderness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"I fear," continued Thorwald, "that I am wearying you with this long talk.". From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Have ye heaped, through many wearying months, your glittering pile of pelf. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Swiss menus have a wearying sameness, as well as a tendency to clog the aorta. From Wordnik.com. [Banking on the Swiss] Reference
Music itself, his great goddess, became unworshipful, wearying to his very soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
TRYGAEUS May the plague seize you, if you don't stop wearying us with your Bacis!. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
It was now late evening and the endless questions were beginning to grow wearying. From Wordnik.com. [The Deadly Daughters] Reference
To the British public, the pattern unfolding in America has a wearying familiarity. From Wordnik.com. [Wearyingly Familiar] Reference
"Where's my stoup?" were his first words; "my poor lads upbye must be wearying for water.". From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
"Would he be leaving any word?" said I, for I would be wearying to come at the man's business. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
The small events occupy and divert our minds without wearying them with the bewildering whirl of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
Business pressure and professional responsibility are wearying; he, too, feels the strain upon his nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Elaine labour with diligence day and night to heal and comfort him, and to keep the time from wearying him. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
It was probably this same solicitude which finally became so wearying that she returned to school for relief. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The brassworks was hard — one sat, but the foot exercise was wearying and the seat fearfully uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Nothing grows more wearying than continuous amusement, and no one needs amusement so much as he who is always at it. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
When he wasn't pulling his arm-wearying shifts at the local plants, he was at football, basketball or track practice. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Shanahan takes his life's work to D.C. and Washington Redskins] Reference
Europe -- to get away from her sorrow, he said, to get away from her mother's wearying discussion of details, he knew. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The daily life of the village presented a wearying sameness after I had become accustomed to its more novel peculiarities. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
They all start from structural weaknesses that are inherited, and they are the evolutionary results of brain-wearying forces. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
The struggle for the first nickel had been wearing and wearying, but the amassment of the second was beyond description difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
However, if Kara were wearying of this and really preferred the other girls, Tory appreciated that she was probably being a nuisance. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
In the early afternoon our progress became slow and excessively wearying from the shallowing of the river and its wonderful crookedness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
"See, Hamish, my little brown horse is wearying for the air o 'the hills and the spring water," and she would smile with her brows raised. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
Nature's laws are immutable, so we have been told with wearying insistence, but suppose you and I have wills as strong as Nature herself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
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