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To the average European, Peking's history begins in 1900; you cannot get away from that time, and after a while you tire of it, and you tire, too, of all the bustle and blaze of colour. And you climb again to the top of the wall that seems to belong to another world, and you look off toward the great break in the hills, to Nankow, the Gate of the South.
I dipped into the pages and 'No, I shouted, 'this I have never read. His equanimity was restored. He was up the ladder and down again, showing me further treasures with all pride and ardour. At length, Watts-Dunton, afraid that his old friend would tire himself, arose from his corner, and presently he and I went downstairs to the dining-room.
Ching thinkee muchee so. Now go sleepee. Velly much tire." He curled himself up, drawing his tail round out of the way, and seemed to go off directly; while I rejoined the officer of the watch, who happened to be Mr Brooke, and we walked right forward to the bows, and saw that the men were keeping a bright look-out. "Well, Herrick," he said, "got your dirk sharp?" "No," I said.
Only the night before, when his cousins had made him get out of bed, he had wondered if he should live to be an old man, and never have anybody to love all that long time; but now his heart felt quite warm to the little thing that lay on his lap. "She'll tire you, Tom," said her mother, "you'd better let me put her down in the cot." "Oh, no!" said he, "please don't!
Matthews described the watch he was obliged always to keep as most harassing; night and day he was surrounded by the natives, who tried to tire him out by making an incessant noise close to his head.
Chalk began to tire of his pleasantries, and, after listening to a surprising account of a Scotch vessel which always sailed backwards when the men whistled on Sundays, signified his displeasure by staying away from Dialstone Lane for some time.
'I only want to find out if I have talent enough to go on, and after years of study to be able to act well in any of the good plays people never tire of seeing. I don't expect to be a Mrs Siddons or a Miss Cameron, much as I long to be; but it does seem as if I had something in me which can't come out in any way but this. When I act I'm perfectly happy.
Well, then, when you take a horse, no man who loves art wants to see him smooth and even from stem to stern. What you want is a varied surface a little bit of hill and a little bit of valley; and you get it in a horse like mine. Most horses are monotonous. They tire on you.
"Oh, how terrible!" murmured Sybil, from her shelter on her husband's breast. "Yes, madam, but not so terrible as we feared. Not to tire you with too long an account of this bad business, I will tell you at once the result of the physician's examination.
Hebbers was already married to a woman in a distant part of the kingdom. "I will not tire you with all that past at our next interview.
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