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"You're trying to be eloquent," was her observation, "and you've only succeeded in being very silly and tiresome. Go away, beautiful. You make me awfully tired, and I don't care for you in the least. Go and talk to Kathleen. I shall be here on this very spot," Margaret added, with commendable precision and an unaccountable increase of colour, "if if any one should happen to ask."
It was rather tiresome, though at the same time interesting work, to see the yacht lifted gradually up step by step, while the water rushed down from the lock above to raise that on which we floated to its own level. Whoever first thought of such a contrivance deserves great credit. As the wind was perfectly fair, we sailed along the canal for about eight miles without any impediment.
"Gracious, Maurice, how tiresome you are! Must one always say why? I only wanted to know. I missed people I used to see about, that's all." "Yes, a number have not come back." He was so occupied with what they were saying that he, in his turn, stepped into a puddle, splashing the water up over her shoe. Ephie was extremely annoyed.
Often when Echochee was tiresome, or I was tired, I used to slip away and go there." "I wish you'd take me won't you?" "Oh, I can't," she quickly answered, stooping for a flower in our path, holding it in both hands and leaning her face above it.
Having finished with litters, the series proceeds to peculiar marks found on single specimens; lambs that have a head and tail shaped like a lion or that have a lion's head and a mane like that of an ass, or a head like a bird's, or like a swine, and so through a long and rather tiresome list.
Some of us have a whole sideboard full of such, and vary our pursuits according to inclination and task. Some of us have only one such, but they are all empty, and the lip is parched after the cup has been lifted to it as it was before. II. And so, consider now, secondly, the foolish ignorance that makes the toil tiresome.
That was quite a different matter; every one knows what a marked vocation you had even in your childhood, and how willingly you devoted your fortune, and resigned all worldly hopes whereas this little one has always been the most tiresome child in the class, and, moreover, will have to live at the expense of the convent."
But of course he doesn't suspect, for I haven't given you away. Well, this is a joke!" "I'm in a hurry, so I'll hustle along." "Wait a jiffy. I've just got here. Sort of went to pieces after landing in this town, and they stowed me in bed, with a pill-slinger looking at my tongue, taking my pulse and asking a lot of tiresome questions. He even sounded my lungs, though I protested against it.
Therefore in May, 1870, I started west by the Union-Pacific railroad, and on arriving at Corinne' Station, the next beyond Ogden, took passage by stage-coach for Helena, the capital of Montana Territory. Helena is nearly five hundred miles north of Corinne, and under ordinary conditions the journey was, in those days, a most tiresome one.
Jack was quite taken with the girl whom he considered very natural and a good deal better company than her father who was forever trying to impress everybody with the renown of the Van der Donks, past and present, and after the company had gone Dick said to him: "Very pretty girl, Miss Margaret, and has lots of sense, but what a tiresome old bore that father of hers is."
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