So he asked one of the more erudite bores to give him the names of the best books about Japan.
He became the prey of the bores who haunt every seaside place at home and abroad, lurking for lonely and polite people upon whom they may unload their conversation.
Drifting into shallow water the sharp end of the spindly radiclebores into the mud.
With this splendid instrument the creature grips and breaks off or gnaws off, or bores out crumbs of coral which you find, apparently in process of digestion, as you render him an acceptable morsel.
The Cetonia-larva lives in crumbling galleries which it bores in the depths of the soil.
We are not disposed to dispute that statement after reading the first chapter, in which we found: "The hotel bores me to weariness.
We know one or two of these iron athletes who have outlived their generation and they are among the bores of the world.
He can be of great use to me, but he bores me so, I cannot talk to him.
You think as property has its duties as well as its rights, rank has its bores as well as its pleasures.
I never go anywhere," replied the melancholy Cupid, "everything bores me so.
This living in the country in August bores me to extinction.
Naples (I mean the town, of course) bores me more than ever.
People turned up: blighting boresthat I wouldn't have dared to inflict on you.
It" was their marriage, their being together, and away from bores and bothers, in a comradeship of which both of them had long ago guessed the immediate pleasure, but she at least had never imagined the deeper harmony.
But of all my bores the greatest is Damis, guardian of her whom I adore, who dashes every hope she raises, and has brought it to pass that she dares not see me in his presence.
I do not say this to boast of an impromptu, or to pretend to any reputation on that account: but only to prevent certain people, who might object that I have not introduced here all the species of Bores who are to be found.
He bores me dreadfully, almost as much as he bores her.
Accustomed to a whirl of foolish gaieties, she wearies her small brain; thrown back upon herself, she bores herself at once, because she has nothing interesting to tell herself.
They tend to develop into bores of the first water in later life.
I am tired of Schloss Schinkenstein; the Rhine boresme after a while.
It bores into flesh very much after the manner of a circular punch, and when it starts, its habit is to go to the bone.
If this fish is cut open after having bored its way into an animal a solid round mass of flesh will be found inside corresponding to the hole it has made, showing that the fish really bores its way in.
He brought in the bores head, and was wonderous bold; He said there was neuer a cucholds kniffe carue itt that cold.
He pulld forth a wood kniffe, fast thither that he ran; He brought in the bores head, & quitted him like a man.
Craddoccke wan the horne & the bores head; His ladye wan the mantle vnto her meede; Euerye such a louely ladye, God send her well to speede!
Craddoccke had a litle kniue of iron & of steele; He birtled the bores head wonderous weele, That euery knight in the Kings court had a morssell.
In the sides of the deep pit-like entrance to one of these burrows the bird bores a cylindrical hole, from three to six feet long, and terminating in a circular chamber.
There was one feudal custom worth keeping, at least, Roasted bores made a part of each well-ordered feast, And of all quiet pleasures the very ne plus Was in hunting wild bores as the tame ones hunt us.
When this missile is fired against armor plate the jacket splits and the lead lining virtually disappears from the impact, but the pointed steel core keeps on and bores a hole through the plate as it might through soft wood.
The work of machining proceeded favorably until the very last operation--that of polishing the interior of the long bores to a mirrorlike glaze and still retaining the extreme accuracy necessary to prevent the leakage of oil past the pistons.
Morning visits are the greatest boresin the world.
Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing To th' smothering of the sense- how far it is To this same blessed Milford.
On many occasions we have been obliged to fire shot from a rifle, for the purpose of obtaining birds, when the smooth-bores were not at hand.
Merely because I happen to be born a princess I'm supposed to put on a veneer of Court manners, and observe Court etiquette day in and day out, until it all bores me stiff--as you say in English.
You won't be forced to swallow down the entire performance if it bores you.
But my everlasting novel bores me sometimes in an incredible manner!
What bores you, amuses me; I love movement and noise, and even the tiresome things about travelling find favor in my eyes, provided they are a part of travelling.
Do not write if it bores you, say to us only, "I am well, and I love you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
