never-weary

Updated: June 2, 2025

There, where the forest stood, from north to south and from east to west, spreads a wide field of rich fertility. There, on those rivers where the basket-boats once sailed, rise the taut spars of England's navy. Where the rude hamlet rested on its banks in rural solitude, the never-weary din of commerce rolls through the city of the world.

Sir Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon

Now he stumps about in this same library, but manages to take me travelling thousands of never-weary miles; and many and many a time do we walk, and shoot, and swim, and race, and fight over and over again that happy time at the cape. Poor Alfred the best of all of us died before his thirtieth year, nursed by a few devoted Africans, at his missionary station in the southern Atlantic.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors