And as the secretary ambled monotonously on, Ryder watched and watched until he saw the spider seize its helpless prey and devour it.
If lovers could be summoned as opportunely in real life as they are in stories, hearts would not ache so often and life would be quite monotonously serene.
At first he did not mind it so much, but after ten minutes of riding so, the thing grew monotonously painful and disquieting to the nerves.
To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon.
Months after this occurrence, months that passed swiftly because monotonously to me, for by events alone we are told we measure time, I was roused one night from my early slumber by the sound of bitter weeping in Evelyn's chamber.
Barth and his companions saw the monotonously gloomy forest giving way to scattered clusters of large and graceful trees, such as generally indicate the neighbourhood of human labour.
These regional suggestions then smooth the way for the curative suggestion, namely, the constant and monotonously repeated assurance that recovery is advancing.
July 26, the patient was observed in profound stupor, non-reactive, constantly and monotonously repeating the phrase, Mama mia!
The bare freight car clattered and rumbled monotonouslyover the rails.
The pendulum of the clock flashed beneath the glass door of the case like some broad, grinning face, and monotonously told the seconds.
He opened his eyes and saw that his father was seated in a chair near his bed, monotonously repeating in a dull voice: "Get up, get up.
And the raindrops plashed monotonously in the miry pools, the calf bleated piteously, and the bell of the neighbouring convent tolled on, with even and melancholy strokes.
The tramontana blew steadily from the north, whistling monotonously in the ears.
The horse was jogging along at a weary trot, beating the uneven, dusty road monotonously with its hoofs, the isvostchik kept falling into a doze, Nekhludoff sat without thinking of anything.
The old man's voice went on monotonously in a low-pitched impassive tone; but the boys hung intent on every word to the end.
From behind the thick lenses of his spectacles the Herr Professor examined the rifle while his monotonously dreary voice continued an entomological monologue for Brown’s edification.
The uniformity of the climatic conditions over the far southern oceans is monotonously unattractive.
The monotonously enervating heat of the humid tropics makes man sensitive to slight temperature changes.
This week passedmonotonously enough for me, cooped up in my little apartment.
Thereafter the messages came thicker, about one every four days, but monotonously unwelcome.
The result was a tedious exhibition of fencing for position, each sword monotonously caught on the other shield.
The music seemed to hypnotize the people, who kept shuffling with their feet monotonously on the ground.
Some fellow in the corner, with a chin like a sea-urchin, strums a tune monotonously on an old guitar.
A paucity of intelligence and initiative made all intercourse monotonously the same.
The city is populous, chiefly with shoeless inhabitants, monotonously flat, few buildings for dread of earthquake being over one story, even the national palace and cathedral sitting low and squat.
The long day crept monotonously away, and she welcomed the night which shut out the dreary prospect.
A silence followed, broken only by the rain monotonously falling on the roof, and occasionally through the broad adobe chimney, where it provoked a retaliating hiss and splutter from the dying embers of the hearth.
Monotonously the solemn reeds Waved to our passing; Ahead the canal shimmered, blotched green by the water-weeds.
Cymbals, at the hands of a tired girl, Slim wisp amid the swirl Of crowded streets, take up the tune, Monotonously importune.
The wall continued of the same quality, monotonously familiar; then occurred an impassable jungle that it would have taken a herd of buffalo to make any impression upon.
Flying ants and gnats of every description were flinging themselves at the electric lights, and a bat circled monotonously round the ceiling.
I want nothing," she repeated monotonously to all demands, until at last Kykie, from sheer weariness, obeyed.
Now, piquant and romantic sensations are very valuable in South Africa, and should always be followed up in case of life becoming too monotonouslysaltless and savourless.
The sky directly above had been monotonously blue for several days when clouds seemed suddenly to form in all directions.
Often, however, the monotonously melancholy notes of a wooden flute on which he played would reach them.
But, despite these interesting things, there was something tiring in the long journey over the monotonously level plains, and Jonitza grew more and more restless.
All that mortal day the buckskin pounded monotonously ahead.
Even the few passengers on the monotonously droning cars but added to the impression of tacit conformity to the inevitable.
