They wanted for their country the honor of the first transatlantic flight, whether non-stop or otherwise; and, being unable to continue the wearisome wait for good weather in face of the news that the American flying boat N.
This limitation would necessitate time-losing and wearisome journeys between London and Ireland, Newfoundland and New York, to and from the nearest points on either side of the ocean.
You, Maltravers, I never forgot in absence; and your image made yet more wearisome and trite the things around me.
It would be wearisome to enter into many details; one fact alone will suffice: the score of the "Elizabeth" is to be sent back to be engraved, and I promised the editor not to let it go anywhere else before its publication.
A wearisome piece of work will keep me here till my return to Pest in January '75.
What sage would not have exchanged his wearisome knowledge for my lusty revels with Nature?
It is so wearisome to count the changes which pass within us, that we take interest in the changes that pass without.
The twenty-four hours spent at Saigon broke the monotonous pleasantness of our voyage very agreeably to me, but most of the passengers complain of the wearisome detention in the heat.
That official strode forward, stepping into the vertical pew which is placed for the apparent in-convenience of witnesses, by adding to their natural nervousness and trepidation the discomfort of a cramped wearisome posture.
It was a slow, wearisome tramp, as a part of the way lay through the bottoms covered with cottonwood and willows, and over rough hills and rocky prairies.
He knew, he said, that such conversation must be wearisome to her ladyship, but he was writing a monograph on the subject, and out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaks.
How often at my garret-window have I stood gazing over my wearisome books at the blue sky, where our neighbor's white pigeons were wheeling in ethereal circles.
He never wearies, even when dealing with subjects that would be most wearisome under clumsier handling.
So with a longing glance up the great Lhasa trail I turned my face eastwards; but it is always wearisome to retrace one's steps, and a chance remark of Captain Bailey set me on the scent of an alternative route to Ya-chou.
You will scarcely undertake a wearisome lawsuit for the sake of the property.
Such a life would be rather wearisometo most city-bred ladies.
Because I was weary of myself, I told you that your company would be wearisometo me.
About eighteen months after the visit to Oxford, another event diversified the wearisome life which Frances led at Court.
This part of the daily programme was intensely distasteful to the little Dolmans, and certainly the Delaneys did not appreciate it a bit better, but at long last the wearisome lessons were over, and the little people were free.
Wearisome days of sickness came, and he who was nurtured in luxury, was dependent upon the charity of grudging strangers.
No reprieve from that wearisome ledger, for the throbbing brow and dimmed eye.
A closed carriage comes to the door, and for two long, wearisome hours I drive with Sir Arthur and Lady Vaughan.
The rapidly shortening days seemed longer instead, so uneventful and wearisome were they.
I fear I have been wearisome at times; but you seem to understand why this was no common bereavement to me.
It is an affecting sight--one so young and fair, deserting the society she would adorn, for the wearisome offices of a sick-room.
Her difficulty lay in the thought that it might require a long time, a wearisome struggle, to gain the universal recognition which alone would satisfy her.
If I had been condemned to a wearisome occupation and a very small income, I'm sure I should never have asked anyone to marry me; I don't think it fair.
As it must be quite a small house, the remoter suburbs could alone supply what was wanted; Morphew spent every Saturday and Sunday in wearisome exploration.
Vibert again sprang into the chaise; he was very impatient to get at last to the end of his wearisome journey, and urged the pony to as quick a pace as its lameness permitted over the smoother road.
To Emmie, cold and damp as she was, and longing for shelter and rest, it seemed as if that wearisomelane would never come to an end.
She had to keep up thewearisome routine of fitting her feelings to her behavior, her behavior to her feelings.
Then she glanced, with the air of being recalled to a wearisome routine, at the table in the middle of the floor; it meant ham and eggs.
The enemy could not be attacked here by any form of mounted action; so far from this being possible, ground could be gained only by wearisome fighting on foot, to which the cavalrymen were unaccustomed.
It was therefore decided with deep regret to resort to the long and wearisome task of sapping in order to hold the enemy.
