It is obvious that boys thus trained will not look upon an occasional period of militia service with the bashfulness of raw recruits, nor yet with the ennui of veteran soldiers.
Come, now, if you will trust in me, I will undertake to cure your ennui before a week is over.
The gossipings of Manette, the hunting stories of Claudet had no interest for young de Buxieres, and the acquaintances he endeavored to make outside left only a depressing feeling of ennui and disenchantment.
He had cudgelled his brains to comprehend whence came these fits of terrible melancholy, and, judging Julien by himself, came to the conclusion that his ennui proceeded from an excess of strictness and good behavior.
He could not disguise his feeling of ennui sufficiently to prevent the provincial circles from being greatly offended; they declared unanimously that young de Buxieres was a bear, and decided to leave him alone.
Across Eve Edgarton's thin little face the flash of temper faded instantly into mere sulky ennui again.
Othmar had brought that dramatic element into her life without which, despite her really very high intelligence, ennui was apt to descend upon her.
There were moments when she thought that if she had met him before, as he said, there would have been less ennui and more warmth in her life.
You would want nothing to your felicity, if in these moments of ennui you would but smoke a cigar.
In the country, my dear boy, you are always face to face with your wife, and, owing to the ennui which impels you, you rush headforemost into the enjoyment of your bliss.
According to our view, a husband who gives way to ennui is a heretic, and more than that, he is a man who lives quite out of sympathy with the marriage state, of whose importance he has no conception.
Underneath always an undertone of repulsion and incurable ennui .
The bare idea of that old game of prowling sex fills me withennui and disgust.
Child of sand's reflected shine, And of sun-rays fiercely bent, Is there ennui like to thine, Spleen of luminous Orient?
And of a midnight, sparing him The ennui of a lonely cup, Bjorn, harbouring a gloomy whim, Invites his ancestors to sup.
There was a track of Capri's vice, Of lupanars and gaming-scores, Fretted with wine and blood and dice, Like ennui of old emperors.
Her ennui is a weary queen's, An adulating court amid.
In the first place, mass is an excursion, a distraction, time gained from the daily ennui of the household.
I dread the ennui of being alone, at meals, with Marianne.
It is always time gained from the ennui of the household.
At last a considerable number of Parisian beauties, touched by the sad fate of so many brave and handsome officers, came to Boulogne to charm away the ennui of so long a peace.
They were living thus, ameliorating for each other the ennui of captivity, when M.
He felt that three is company, two none, and he determined to leave them to their desperate ennui à deux.
Ulick had been on the jagged edge ofennui ever since the visit of Mona.
Ennui is like being forced to drink tepid water or to eat soup without salt.
Ennui is like a long-winded, amiable, but watery-idea'd friend who drops in to see us and dribbles platitudes until every nerve is tapped.
To all the objections we raised against the strange exile to which he condemned himself, he replied that ennuihad not yet invaded his humble dwelling.
The major, who welcomed us to Koumskaia, had a slow fever, which he owed still less perhaps to the insalubrity of the climate than to the hardships and mortalennui he had endured for eighteen months.
You would die of ennui at the end of two hours and of cold at the end of eight days.
He was devoured by ennui and his only consolation was the thought that by to-morrow he would not be there.
What insupportable ennuiis that which inhabits the inn of a little remote town, where come few travellers, and no news!
It is true that I sit in the rumble of the carriage, while monseigneur, or my lord, reclines within; but would I exchange his ennui and depression for my own light-heartedness and jollity?
If you look out on those who are singing it, you'd see they are resting from their labours; that they are fighting the ennui which most of us feel when we rest from our labours.
When she was taken to the general's house she was in great dejection, and her face had a look of ennui and despair.
She began to have seasons of ennui and depression, increasing in frequency.
He forgot the delicate and uncertain state of his marital affairs, forgot the censorious world, his ennui and doubt and regret.
Hers were those swift changes of mood so disconcerting to the devils of ennuiand depression; but her husband's period of reaction lasted, with but little mitigation, all the way across the continent.
Yet Bossuet has spoken of "the inexorable ennui which forms the basis of life.
Even with wealth comes ennui or disease, and no matter how brilliant we may live, we must all die alone.
That great charmless woman, George Eliot, smiles a smile of sombre ennui before the Spencer tomb, and the invisible voice of Ernest Haeckel is heard whispering: Where is your Positivism?
The ennui is artistically suggested, though not experienced by the reader.
She had had frightful hours of ennui and almost of despair, but she had got through them somehow.
It was a foolish philosophy, which believed in ennui as an evidence and a means of human perfectibility.
Ennui could never have produced Macedonia's madman, but it may well put in its claim to the Swede.
We have described ennui as a power for evil rather than for good; and we infer, that it was an absurd philosophy which classed it among the causes of human superiority, and the means of human improvement.
Such was the power of ennui over Napoleon, at a time, when, in his own language, nothing but a thunderbolt could save him.
In this anecdote of the Abyssinian traveller, we have an example of the rapidity with which ennui treads on the heels of triumph, and banishes the feelings of exulting joy.
Ennui was the necromancer which conjured up the ghost of Cæsar on the eve of the battle of Philippi.
To be sure, it is not from a Frenchman, that the best account of ennui should be expected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ennui" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
