Thither all the Amorous Youth repair, To see the Objects of their Vows; No Jealousies approach 'em there; They Banish Dulness and Despair; And only Gayety and Mirth allow.
He felt power tingling to his finger-tips--power and the dulness of an immense despair.
She had so resented thedulness of folk who were content with action and never considered its springs.
Yet these two, husband and wife after a fashion--for they had entered into that terminable contract now recognised explicitly by the State--these two were very far from sharing in the usual heavy dulness of mere materialists.
It is paradise to me, but no doubt to you, used as you have been to the stir of the world, there, must be some tedium, some dulness in this mountain isolation.
She shrank now with horror from the fear which came to her that this passion might, like so many others, alter and fade under the dulness of habit.
When an exciting story stops, even when it is only a story in a book, and there are no more accidents and adventures to anticipate, it leaves a dulness behind.
The pulse was rather slow and small; the heart's action languid, and there was an evident increase of dulness upon percussion over cardiac region.
Having loved his own, he loved them unto the uttermost, through all dulness and all unfaithfulness.
So in his dulness he said, "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus was wondrously patient with the dulness of his disciples; but this word pained him, for it showed how little Philip had learned after all his three years of discipleship.
True genuine dulness moved his pity, Unless it offered to be witty.
The boy supposed it was understood to be accidental, and perhaps secretly laughed at the dulness of his master.
He is vexed with them for not attending to what he says, attributing it to their dulness or regardlessness of all that is useful or good, instead of perceiving that the great difficulty is his own want of skill.
These principles show how teaching may, in some cases, be a delightful employment, while in others, its tasteless dulness is interrupted by nothing but its perplexities and cares.
But above all things, remember that dulness and stupidity, and you will certainly find them in every school, are the very last things to get out of patience with.
They seem to think a little, before they go into their school, what sort of beings boys and girls are, and any ordinary case of youthful delinquency or dulness does not surprise them.
Weariness and dulness must reign in both master and scholars, when things, as he imagines, are going right; and mutual anger and crimination, when they go wrong.
Slowness, coldness, dulness or hesitancy in others depressed him just as dull weather depressed him.
She saw no future, and rebellion was impossible; there was nothing to rebel against--except the dulness and greyness of life.
Dulness and blindness so improbable are unfitting in a drama, nor does the passion of his overwhelming pride excuse him.
I show them the banality of many popular and obvious evils, the dulness of paying the price for something off form and of questionable taste.
When peace brings a worship of materials and a dulness that cannot look beyond existing institutions--the end is war, and after that a sitting in black upon the ground.
Is Beauty then a dream, because the glooms Of dulness hang too heavy on thy sense, To let her shine upon thee?
Dulness has few redundancies to retrench, few luxuriancies to prune, and few irregularities to smooth.
The excesses of Genius may easily be retrenched, but the deficiencies of Dulness can never be supplied.
And did she not drop some involuntary remark concerning the dulness of Brittany after he and Maurice left?
Lucy was obliging, ready, and useful, and looked very pretty, the only blot was the heavy dulness of poor Sophy, who seemed resolved to take pleasure in nothing.
No one has ever pretended to rescue from the charge of dulness and insipidity the epic poem of the father of blank verse, Trissino, on the liberation of Italy from the Goths by Belisarius.
But great poets have often the taste to discern, and the candour to acknowledge, those beauties which are latent amidst the tedious dulness of their humbler brethren.
Incorrectness in a leading article may be tolerated, but dulness amounts to a literary crime.
Except in the dulness and monotony of the life there was little to complain of, and Godfrey was surprised to find how far it differed from his own preconceived notions of the life of a political prisoner in Siberia.
However, I daresay you had your reasons, and I don't know that you are not right, for most of us prefer hard work here to the dulness of the prisons in the west.
Of all this servile herd, the worst is he That in proud dulness joins with Quality.
Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve: As things seem large which we through mists descry; Dulness is ever apt to magnify.
But the dulnessof {2} morality testifies only to its homeliness and antiquity.
Do what I wish, and you shall never have another hour's dulnessor weariness while you live.
You shall go to the opera to hear the world's greatest singers; you shall never complain ofdulness or weariness again.
Lord Rochford shared his daughter's dulness of perception; and to complete the unpleasantness of the proposition, he spoke to Amy, hoping that she and Miss Cunningham would learn a few duets together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dulness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
