The battalion seldom or never moved in column of companies, as it was found that this was the most tiring formation of all in a long march, especially when the men were carrying a full kit.
Käte looked at her son with anxious eyes: was the journey tiring him?
It was impossible for the convalescent to be as much in the open air as was desirable, especially as any exercise that would warm him, such as tennis, cycling, riding, was still too tiring for him.
I much preferredtiring myself at the beginning to being hurried at the end.
I much preferred tiring myself at the beginning to being hurried, and was afraid of unforeseen obstacles towards the finish, I seized every hour I could to go ahead with my composition, thus leaving as little as possible to the last moments.
In 1680 Lionel Wafer, tiring of the life of a civil surgeon at Port Royal, left Jamaica to go on a voyage with Captains Linch and Cook to the Spanish Main.
John, tiring of the trade of cooper, to which he was apprenticed, ran away to sea.
Tiring of this, Vane stole a vessel and ranged up and down the coast from Florida to New York, taking ship after ship, until at last the Governor of South Carolina sent out a Colonel Rhet in an armed sloop to try and take him.
Tiring of his quarrelsome French companions he sailed to Jamaica to make terms with the Governor, and anchored in Morant Bay, but his ship was blown ashore by a hurricane.
Soon tiring of this, she deserted, and shipped herself aboard a vessel bound for the West Indies.
Tiring of the monotony and low profits of a fisherman's calling, Jack turned smuggler, carrying cargoes of contraband goods from Guernsey to Ireland.
It had him by the wrists tiring him, weighing on the pit of his stomach, numbing the back of his brain, making his limbs as heavy as ponderous lead.
But Jim was beginning to be worried, for the big horse was tiring rapidly, while the mustangs seemed unflagging in their energy.
We are tiring the animal, whatever it is--a shark, I suspect.
They were tiring him--worrying the strength and fierceness out of him.
And the sun was hot, and the four little legs were very tired; and where was the use of tiring them still more when they might only be wandering farther and farther from their home?
Massival, quickly tiring of a conversation which made no reference to his own art, crossed the room to Mme.
I have been engaged in 3 different tiring occupations and enjoyed them all.
You'll have your husband to nurse next week, and I won't have you tiring yourself out beforehand.
She had a sudden vision of Mrs. West's shrill voice, and decided that she might be tiringto this man with the gaunt, sad face.
Then, tiring of this, and feeling something of the restraint experienced by the stranger who exerts himself abnormally in the rarefied air of the higher Andes, he fell into the easy habits of the pleasure-loving Bogotano.
Then tiring of their progress through an unresponsive city, they had started to find their way back to the Calle de Las Montanas, choosing for this purpose the obscure Calle de Las Flores.
Tiring of this, they dropped back to a more sober gait, letting their horses choose their own way for a time.
Sledge runners are usually supported by this surface, but one's feet break through in a most annoying andtiring manner.
We travelled back along the coast, finding it fearfully rough but not so tiring as walking on the terrace.
It did not seem half as tiring when they were talking as when they apparently covered mile after mile in silence.
He could see that he was getting results from his tiring efforts.
Here, too, our road was rendered very tiring and dangerous by huge scattered masses of rock, as we often had to lead our horses over them, and they might easily have been injured by slipping upon them.
We were constantly supplied with the finest meat which we shot in passing, without stopping any length of time or tiring our horses.
It was a terribly tiring walk, for though it was bright starlight I could not distinguish the boulders and small hollows sufficiently to avoid them.
It was a tiringroad by which we at length reached the bottom, where a small basin filled the entire breadth of the gorge, into which a clear stream noisily poured.
The day was fine and perfectly calm, and as we had no fresh meat, I determined to procure some, without tiring myself excessively.
I had had a tiring day, and was glad to go to the harim that night and turn into my little room.
It was a most tiring day; for not only did people come all through the day, but I was obliged to concentrate all my thought not to make a mistake in etiquette.
We had a long, tiring ride, finally reaching a clump of trees on a height, where we pitched our camp.
And so he continued his round-about and tiring walk until he arrived not at Don Romana's confectioner's shop, which was the usual glorious termination of his morning expeditions, but at the house of Paco Gomez.
Early in the day she had resorted to the wood, but soon tiring of playing the part of modest nymph with her friends, she wandered off to more solitary places.
She added that I had better go to bed, as then she would feel certain that she was not tiring me in any way.
I worked for half an hour, steaming with perspiration, and tiring Semiramis, without being able to come to the point.
I dressed myself in haste, and left the town by the first road that came in my way, and I walked fast for two hours with the intention of tiring myself, and of thus readjusting the balance between mind and body.
It was tiring enough merely to walk out to see them, without having anything else to do.
It was tiring work, and both Murdoch and I were getting very hungry and also very grumpy.
We now suddenly concentrated on Mitchell, who was tiring and had got into range.
Because, at his great age, it must be very tiring to do a lot of extra work; and no doubt to take the Lower Third must be fairly deadly for such a learned man as him.
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