But sometimes the horse was too lame or tired to return home, and the farmer went his way on foot; that always coincided with activity among the officers of the revenue.
He was one of the most restless beings conceivable, and no sooner had he established a monastic centre in one place than he tired of it, and started off to found another somewhere else.
Now there was at table a lay brother, and when the bacon was set before him he thrust his platter contemptuously from him, for he was tired of bacon, and when out visiting, by dad!
Just as the sun cleared the rim of the earth the wagon halted, and at once the yokes fell from the necks of the tired oxen.
Then, with a contented heart I welcomed the touch of the wing of sleep upon my eyelids, and turned over to compose my tired thews for recuperative repose against the fatigues of the morrow.
If she held her head high as she returned to the horrible monotony of that prison so often left with hope, so often re-entered in sadness, it must soon have dropped upon her tired bosom.
II Up a disconsolate straggling village street I saw the tiredtroops trudge: I heard their feet.
You did not feel her arms about your knees, Her blind caress, her lips upon your head: Too tired for thoughts of home and love and ease, The road would serve you well enough for bed.
Old soldiers with three winters in their bones Puff their damp Woodbines, whistle, stretch their toes They can still grin at me, for each of 'em knows That I'm as tired as they are.
Something broke In the tired voice that quavered to a choke.
Young Gibson with his grin; and Morgan, tired and white; Jordan, who's out to win a D.
The stranger dismounted from his horse and slipped his left hand through the rein, allowing the tired beast to graze, while with his right hand he began searching in his pockets for something.
The afflicted children were present, and when the unfortunate prisoner, tired and sick, bent her head, they began to scream and bent their heads also.
Night is the time for rest, How sweet when labors close, To gather round an aching breast The curtain of repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Upon our own delightful bed.
When Belle and Betty arrived at East Fifty-second Street--a little tired after their walk--they found Graham in the hall.
I shall be a tired business man soon and shall want a home to go to, with a little wife waiting for me.
By this time he was tired and a little dazed at the amazing stir and bustle of Broadway, with its never-ceasing lines of cable-cars and its whir and rush of human traffic.
Peter, I think you'll find that this caviare gives many points to the tired stuff that used to be palmed off on us at Buol's and other undergraduate places of puerile riotousness.
But Peter knew intuitively that it was absolutely necessary for Graham to rid his system of this Strabosck poison and empty out his heart and soul before he could be put to sleep, like a tired child.
I'm frightfully tired to-night," he said, yawning.
Left to himself, Peter sat down, almost in the dark, with his arms folded, his legs stuck out and his chin buried in his chest, and thrashed the tired machinery of his brain into action.
I try to be contented, but I get tired o' bein' a girl.
He at last tired of always appearing in the guise of a corsair, or of a mysterious criminal, or of a hero of melodrama.
Nevertheless, through the veil of his customary jests and assurances to Moore that he was quite satisfied, it is easy to see how tired he was, and how little the life at Seaham was suited to him.
I suggested that we substitute a greyhound chasing a jack rabbit for Achilles and the tortoise, who must be tired of running so long.
When tiredwith philosophizing, he turns to painting.
He say 'e tired see colored mans wuk hard an' git nuttin'.
Elmore told pa to go and bring her back, for he said he was tired of having his rations carried to the woods; so ma came home.
Yes, and after all I am very tired of this dreadful life.
And now I am tired of that life; I am almost a woman, Antonia, am I not?
My very thoughts weretired with their sorrowful journeys up and down my mind, trying to find out hope and only meeting despair.
My happiness is so great, Roberto, I am even tired of being happy.
Then remembering that her guests must be tired and hungry, she placed upon the table oat-cake, milk, and whisky in abundance, heartily inviting them to partake of them.
At last, we got tired of listening to him; we were eager for vengeance, and yet we felt a pleasure in witnessing his agony.
We began at last to become very tired of our guard, and to wish that our friends would return and relieve us.
They collected around thetired little squaw, and scanned her closely, for the purpose of identification.
Bogus and Boston are impatient; saying that "Captain Jack, him get tired waiting.
Look behind you; the sun is slowly sinking behind Mount Shasta, tired of the scene.
The older men, whose folly had led them to display contempt for age, went boldly home to lodge where the tired squaws had long since yielded to exhausted nature, and were oblivious to the frolics of their liege lords.
It was a very different girl who had borne his caresses, when for a few moments she had leant her tired body against his strength.
Marjorie rested against him, letting her tired young limbs collapse against his strength.
Do take my bag; I'm sotired I don't know what to do with myself.
Mr. Goodman, tired with his long journey, sat himself down on a log.
She was never tired of imagining the joyful surprise Ida would be sure to show, and the merry days they would have together, arranging the new house.
It was after they had tired themselves with digging that the four had sought Marjorie and a fairy story.
In the evening, she sat, tired but very contented, considering where she ought to go for her holidays.
I'm tired of sticking around in the baker's shop and catching his mice for him.
They were tired of staying in the woods, and he wanted to see his dear mother and his Aunt Tabby again.
We're tired of the woods, too, but we don't know where else to go.
On Saturday events are likely to succeed each other too swiftly to give one time for reflection or realization, and when bedtime comes sleep arrives quickly to a tired body.
Then Captain Proctor, leaning heavily on Rowlandson’s big shoulder, lifted a tired voice.
All about him were warning voices as he forced his tired legs and tuckered lungs to new exertion.
Yes, let us have it as soon as you can, for we're tired and hungry.
Curly' let go of that 'six' like he was plumb tired of it, and the kid welted him over the ear just oncet.
The breath of dawn blows the stars out like lamps, There is a rim of silver on the sea, As one grown tired who hopes to sleep, I go.
The grasshopper's horn, and far off, high in the maples The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence, Under a moon waning and worn and broken, Tired with summer.
I go not bitterly, not dumb with pain, Not broken by the ache of love--I go As one grown tired lies down and hopes to sleep.
Just as the other three were being sent to bed, he came in, so tired he could hardly stand.
He preferred to go straight to bed, for he was too tired to eat.
The tapers were little spiral coils of wax, which the children unrolled as fast as they burned, and when they were tired of holding them, they rested them on the ground and watched the burning.
The sap stirs early in the legs of a country-boy, and shows itself in uneasiness in the toes, which get tired of boots, and want to come out and touch the soil just as soon as the sun has warmed it a little.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tired" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
