The tedium of life, with no more to do in it--why couldn't it end?
A pretty idea, too, is that of a Nightingale within four stone walls, beguiling the tedium of confinement with his "jug-jug.
The pitiless journey from London to Louvain, a journey of many days and nights, prolonged by accident and difficulty, had been spun out to uttermosttedium for those two in the heavily moving old leathern coach.
Our race has not been strained for all these ages through that sieve of dangers that we call Natural Selection, to sit down with patience in the tedium of safety; the voices of its fathers call it forth.
The soldier and the explorer have moments of a worthier excitement, but they are purchased by cruel hardships and periods of tedium that beggar language.
Nowadays people are always saying the same thing; entertainments resemble each other like peas; wherever the world gathers it takes its own monotony and tedium with it, and repeats itself with the dull perseverance of a cuckoo-clock.
Others, whose briefer span forbade their devoting themselves to studies so abstruse, beguiled the littletedium of the way with penny-papers.
His face was ardent, his pantaloons were of white flannel, his expression of countenance was that of habitual discontent, but with a twinkle of geniality in the eye which redeemed the Grumbler from the usual tedium of his tribe.
He knew what precautions to take to preserve the health of his crews, to keep himself well, and what occupations and amusements would best relieve the tedium of a three months' night.
Conversation, it may readily be imagined, was not well maintained under these trying circumstances, and had it not been for some excellent watermelons which were handed to us, the tedium of the interview would have been insupportable.
The people were patient and good-humoured, but to beguile the tedium of waiting they sang songs.
Meantime the quick-eyed facile crowd around him beguiled the tedium of waiting with good-humoured chaff.
The retrospect would enrich, and the prospect stimulate, and banish tedium and the sense of drudgery from their life and work at smoky Mergatroyd.
The presence of the magnificent theatre and the existence of a commodious stadium testify that life at Epidaurus was not without its diversions to relieve the tedium of the medical treatment.
The frequent walking that we had done served to break up the tedium of long riding, which otherwise would have been productive of numb limbs and stiff joints.
The tedium of the hours of riding was easily broken by descending to walk, the better thus to enjoy the view which slowly opened out to the westward.
I was charged with the duty of relieving the tedium of the court," continued the prince gravely.
Of course, the incognito of a Count of Falkenstein, who travelled with such a suite, was not of much value to him; so that he had endured all the tedium of an official journey.
A deep affection may exist side by side with a mental disparity that creates an unwilling but irresistible sense oftedium and discordance.
Had he but been there, she knew very well that the pageantry of the past three days would not have been the mere empty formalities, the mere gilded tedium that they had appeared to be to her.
It is not so often that we have any relief to the tedium with which you are pleased to surround yourself that we should be required to shut ourselves from any chance break in it.
It was close enough to the truth without the tedium of details for one who was a stranger to him and needed no more than a stranger's cordial trifle.
In that admirable dialogue, wherein Prometheus appears as a vision before the Wandering Jew, the tedium of existence is compressed into a few brief pages.
He was haunted, it seems, by the symbol of a Prometheus wearied of his immortality of anguish,--by the tedium vitae.
No flashes of humour relieved the tedium of his long and closely-reasoned demonstrations.
Consequently, what with the anguish of knowing that her profession is neglected, and what with the unenlivened tedium of her days, sickness will be a formidable thing to women of the androgynous type--and to the men belonging to them.
But the desoeuvres know nothing of the pleasures of energy; consequently none of the luxuries of idleness--only its tedium and monotony.
I suppose I began talking about my affairs, like a fool, to relieve the tedium of his illness.
A payday now and then didn't make up for the tediumof labor.
On Walden nobody wanted anything, unless it was relief from the tedium of ultra-civilized life.
Now things like this really do relieve the tedium of church, but no missal that I have ever seen will do anything except increase it.
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