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Indeed, I have quite neglected it since I left school; and then I only studied heavy books such as The History of Frederick the Great, that wearisome Jungfrau von Orleans, and others of Schiller's plays." "Ah!" I replied, "that accounts for it, then. The more you read German, the more you will like it.
Still it was again the sad and wearisome story of brave men so badly handled that their gallantry meant only their own slaughter. The President had expressly urged Hooker to be sure to get all his troops at work. Yet he actually let 37,000 of them stand all day idle, not firing a shot, while their comrades were fighting and falling and getting beaten.
It would be wearisome to enumerate the jurists who have subscribed to this theory in one shape or another, and it is the less necessary to attempt it because Blackstone, who is always a faithful index of the average opinions of his day, has summed them up in his 2nd book and 1st chapter.
Nor did she fathom the cause until upon a certain day which fell upon the end of a week's wearisome traverse of the hardest country yet encountered.
Now, when man has not learned the art of living and conversing with himself, he becomes wearisome and sometimes dangerous to himself when alone; because the mind, not knowing how to occupy itself, and not finding in its own resources the thoughts that elevate and nourish it, is obliged, in order to avoid lonesomeness, to dwell upon images which at least distract and weaken it, and not unfrequently disturb the peace of the heart.
Then it came out that there was a feud between them—two years or more it had lasted—and neither ever speaks to the other. Everyone there had had some experience in being out of work or not working. To each of them at such a time life has been a wearisome thing. Each declared she would 'most rather work at any old thing than stay home and do nothing.
But after we had made our southing from Bombay our course lay nearly due east, with a fresh, fair, west wind, within five degrees of the equator, a zone wherein cyclonic disturbance seldom intrudes. One of the complaints made by residents against the climate of Singapore, so pleasant to a stranger, is the wearisome monotony.
Alas! a pawnbroker could not have been more practical and commonplace, for this was what the kneeling woman said to the woman upright this and nothing more: "Eh, what extravagance!" O nineteenth century, wonderful art thou indeed wonderful, but wearisome in thy stale and deadly uniformity. Thy men are more like numerals than men.
And with sore ado for she was feeble the old dame tottered out and brought in four beavers; but she was so much troubled to cut them up that the elder, saying to the younger man Uoh-keen! And they supped on beaver. So they remained for a week, resting themselves, for they were sadly worn with their wearisome journey, and also utterly ragged.
During this last period, when all other activities were practically impossible to him, he fell into a state of letter-writing for the most part long, wearisome complainings and explainings in which he poured out a copious flood of tears and self-pity for the loss of his gold.
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