At all events, as far as the humdrum of matrimony is concerned, the fairy tales are truer than real life.
But you see--he switches off at once to Liosha and the trivial records of the humdrum day.
The rules of war and the dictates of humdrum prudence certainly prescribed this course for a beaten army, especially as Bülow's corps was known to be on the Liège road.
But nations are sometimes ruined by lofty genius, while at times they may be saved by humdrum prudence; and Barclay's common sense had no small share in saving Russia.
Webster went back to his cases; the politicians turned again to their immediate concerns; the humdrum of congressional business was resumed; and popular interest drifted to other things.
Life becomes a burden to the man who lives the humdrum existence of ranch life.
She had one of those keen, active brains which refuses to become dull and torpid in an atmosphere of humdrum monotony.
Neither do I think that the ordinary humdrum details of Indian life in cantonment would repay perusal.
There is no such charm for me in this humdrum house, that I should wish to exchange life with the man I adore, for its droning, spiritless existence!
His mood was similar to that of a man on the verge of a trip to foreign lands, who, with all the humdrum existence that had earned it behind him, and all the delights of adventure before, waits only the turn of wind or tide to be away.
She was what humdrum people call “a character,” as if all of us were not that when you shift the lights.
We see but little of the world in this place," said he, "and we hail this break in the humdrum monotony of our life with extreme pleasure.
But you expect us women to stay at home and be as humdrum as hens in a chicken-house.
The humdrum church- people, whom we used to laugh at for their long faces and childish faith, have the best of the game of life in the long run.
He seemed to himself a homely, humdrum fellow beside this other who had stepped so lightly into Esther Northmore's life.
He had led a humdrum existence enough apart from his cricket; but here was one who could lift the veil of romance as no story-book had done.
Her father would send Maryska away, and they must return to the old humdrum life.
The Warren had been a few months ago a pattern of humdrum peacefulness.
Might a humdrummortal remind you that David is just about sliding into the train shed at this moment?
It is maintained by some, and we think justly, that the lack of idealism in the Japanese mind renders the life of even the most cultivated a mechanical, humdrum affair when compared with that of Westerners.
They plod along in a humdrum manner; there is no poetry in their soul,--none of those ambitious stirrings which lead the man who has in him the true spark of genius to try for grand things and incur severe and ignominious tumbles.
She led a humdrum life and she was ready to welcome romance.
That humdrum old bookseller evoked by some miraculous art the most delicate and lovely of creations out of the midst of revolting and disgusting circumstances.
He will make a humdrum duty shine like the wayside bush that burned with fire and was not consumed.
If I am obedient, He will appear unto me, and thehumdrum road will shine with miracles of grace.
The melodrama passes side by side with all that is ordinary and humdrum in the monotony of everyday existence.
