How To Use Bore In A Sentence

Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
The result of such rack-rent can only be evil, abuse and neglect of the soil, deterioration in the character of the laborers, and a widespread sense of injustice. VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece.
A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls

Having a smooth bore . Use of a gun barrel.
Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
They men weren't bored, as they'd expected, and were usually the heartiest laughers.
I'’m bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say "I’m bored.". Louis C.K.
About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
Of course the appendix has always been subject to inflammation, just as it is now, but in former years the disease we call appendicitis bore various names, depending upon the diagnostic skill of the attending physician. Appendicitis
For the viewer or the reader, this can be a pleasant experience, a feeling of ease, without boredom or dullness.
No, it's like "And she knew it arbored great things. Glimpse Inside A Writer's Brain
I left figurative art because I was bored of it. Times, Sunday Times
Every so often a rabbit would make a desperate, lung-bursting bid for freedom, only to provide an easy target for the twelve-bores.
Sakazawa was tossed and shaken as the ship bore the brunt of the attack.
He himself bore them submissively for thirteen years; for six he suffered from lithiasis, and for seven years from stomatitis (or, as some say, six years from the former and seven from the latter). Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
He had taken a hard line about any country that harbored terrorists, and by his definition Saddam was a terrorist. Plan of Attack
All went down alike before their charge, my lord and my lady, the Prince of the Blood, and the humblest page who bore his pouncet box. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV
My hair was matted and wild -- my limbs soiled with salt ooze; while at sea, I had thrown off those of my garments that encumbered me, and the rain drenched the thin summer-clothing I had retained -- my feet were bare, and the stunted reeds and broken shells made them bleed -- the while, I hurried to and fro, now looking earnestly on some distant rock which, islanded in the sands, bore for a moment a deceptive appearance -- now with flashing eyes reproaching the murderous ocean for its unutterable cruelty. III.9
Bruno had also bought calamine lotion and after our shower we patterned ourselves all over our bites like Aborigines painted for a corroboree.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For a long time, corporate executives felt that the Internet was only an academic toy for bored graduate students.
his eyes were glazed over with boredom
The litter on the boreen in Tullyvarraga, black bags of household rubbish thrown in over the wall, is a shame, a black spot in the quest for Tidy Towns glory.
Another dream tells of an encounter with a being who held four keys, and bore the wings of a kingfisher.
Further subdivision of the second category is based on the width of the primary branches, which decreases distally only slightly in C. arboreus, but markedly in C. concentricus.
Unemployment rates for railroad conductors, logging workers and metalworkers fell sharply — seven percentage points or more — in 2010 while jobless rates among construction laborers and roofers rose, according to new data from the Labor Department. Manufacturing, Logistics See Job Gains
Iste tamen tyro superveniens finaliter illaesus exivit; et dehinc multo tempore Boreas quievit, nec ibidem fuit, ut supra, cateranorum excursus. The Fair Maid of Perth
If the ventral curvature of tail is real, then that, in concert with its extremely narrow scaupulae, suggests that a more appropriate functional analog would be found in arboreal chameleons.
Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
What is news is that from the very beginning, biggety ivory-tower academics have labored to recruit into their ranks the sons and daughters of the powerful, famous, and rich. [Help] Most Recent Posts
At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
We were all bored silly by the play.
From the river cruise the docklands look like docklands everywhere; tourists finally at rest, not quite bored, get brief glimpses into other lives, other spaces.
The technique uses two bore holes drilled into a coal seam. Times, Sunday Times
I bet you have your own sheaf of pathetic poesy you want to bore us with.
Traditionally the life of a soldier involves long stretches of boredom punctuated by brief and seemingly unending moments of stark terror.
Despite everything, she bore her former boss no animosity.
There are so many ways to beat boredom without going near a slots game of any sort. The Sun
When it arrived, I discovered that every other chamber was bored wrong and would not accept a round.
His sleep patterns differ on a nightly basis and he will often be awake all night if he is bored in the day. The Sun
It is entirely possible to drink any wine with any dish, and anyone who says otherwise is talking bunkum; a respected gastro-bore friend of mine likes to drink white burgundy with stewed lamb, as he finds it brings out the texture of the meat.
If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress.
They started quarrelling out of sheer boredom.
The play bored me stiff.
Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encircling the sheening, glowing Red One that seemed ever imminent to iridesce from colour and light into sweet singing and thunder. THE RED ONE
It is a remarkable reminder of the culture of the Getes, a Thracian people who were in contact with the Hellenistic and Hyperborean worlds, according to ancient geographers.
The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
The lararium was deserted; the gynoecium was still, as in the Roman time, the favoured apartment of the female portion of the household, and indeed bore the same name [8], and with the group there assembled we have now to do. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
The obvious is belabored with depressing frequency; the following passage illustrates this and other problems.
Inside, the guards were no longer lounging about with a bored air but stood at attention next to the body.
It's likely that the Emerald ash borer, which is a beetle from Asia, could create an infestation. Kare11.com - Top Stories News
He seemed to regard it as a stigma which he bore with what grace he could. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Of course, in some sense, this is a regressive tax as poorer laborers are probably the least likely to have flexibility in setting their work schedules for the sake of avoiding the higher taxes.
What do you bring to the jamboree,darling,huh? Aside from those baby blues and a knife?
Not just resistant to the pitter patter of bored kiddie feet but immune to assaults from the outside as well.
Has arbores seu arbusta Balsami fecit quondam quidam de Caliphis Aegypti de loco Engaddi inter mare mortuum, et Ierico, vbi Domino volente excreuerat, eradicari, et in argo pr鎑icto plantari: est tamen hoc mirandum, quod vbicuncque alibi siue prope, siue remote plantantur, quamuis fort� virent, et exurgant, non tamen fructificant. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation. Archive 2006-11-01
The largest component of this is the arboreal Rio Negro caatinga. Jaú National Park, Brazil
He was staring at a tree that the rock had bored a hole through.
About 125 vehicles, ranging in their degree of damage, and a firebombed parts building bore the brunt of the attack. Maytha Alhassen: From 9/11 To 8/22: My Arab-American Muslim Father Was A Victim Of American Terrorism
The house that he occupied, of Venetian design, and four stories in height, bore many architectural marks of distinction, such as the floriated window, the door with the semipointed arch, and medallions of colored marble set in the walls. The Financier
It bore that air of uncostly refinement which is one of the most pleasing outward features of the aloof civilization to which it, though not the Callenders, belonged. Kincaid's Battery
You had to rebush the rod if the slack was excessive, or rebore the big end if it was split - all of which you hoped could be deferred until the entire affair had to be dismantled for white-lead testing.
Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod. Can't Stop The Bleeding
Over the door of a handsome brick building dated 1937, beneath a clustered family group whose adult held a caduceus, the lintel bore this inscription.
A sallow teenager in a cheap cocktail dress wearing too much makeup appears, looking terminally bored.
It was exactly what he had imagined; they were both coked up and would need a rebore before too long. Tears Of The Giraffe
Well - they are out there somewhere, as they have always been, and the competitive route exampled by the well-established Donatella Flick jamboree may be one way of finding them.
Bored pet owners released them and the birds bred.
One evening we labored, stung by nettles and mosquitoes, to set up Sewell's camera blind on Otter Pond in the great marsh.
Placement of large bore plastic biliary stents was a good initial treatment for cholangitis or jaundice when present.
His black cloak had seen service; the waistcoat of grey plaid bore yet stronger marks of having encountered more than one campaign; his third piece of dress was an absolute veteran compared to the others; his shoes were so loaded with mud as showed his journey must have been pedestrian; and a grey maud, which fluttered around his wasted limbs, completed such an equipment as, since Count Robert of Paris
His job bored him, but left ample time for the writing he wanted to do. Times, Sunday Times
In another document this schoolhouse is described as "schola, anglice _schoolhouse_, ad borealem finem Aulæ prædictæ. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
That is not because there will be a coup against him but just through sheer boredom. Times, Sunday Times
The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers
If the wood is thicker than three-fourths of an inch, you can either substitute longer screws or counterbore the interior surface of the door or drawer so that the screw head is recessed into the wood.
MTB" and Mr. Borel handled the track with yeoman qualities, it made me cry. Boston.com Most Popular
There are other, smaller points of similarity; Emma's boredom with village life is parallelled in Cher's boredom with high school boys. Way Existential
These societies are south of Hallowell's focus of study, the northern Boreal area of North America.
With rather thin lips and colorless cheeks, he bore the distinguished face of an ailing man.
This was the site of the Foucher Plantation, owned by Paul Foucher, son of a New Orleans mayor and son-in-law of Etienne de Bore, famed as the granulator of sugar from cane syrup. Undefined
The resort also has an hotel and apartments to cater for families and couples and there are plenty of activities for those who get bored lying on the beach.
But, even when staffed by people with little or no experience in the Communist Party apparat or Soviet state, the new executive institutions bore the unmistakable stamp of the Soviet epoch, and even of the tsarist period.
I even broke out the sail for a few minutes until I got bored and switched back to paddling.
After a few hours of sleepless boredom, he took out a handgun from his leg holster.
He was careful to keep his legs casually thrown out in front of him, his expression bored. Bloodstream
On borehole televiewer logs. An unusual effect produced on the cathode-ray tube display by erratic movement of the tool as it drags along the borehole.
You medicalise trivial ailments and, worse, bore others with them. Times, Sunday Times
He made friends, had adventures, found ways to fight the boredom with his cluster of rat-eyed Latin Bowery Boys.
The tip extension would be split into sections lined with clay but Yorkshire Water is concerned contamination may leak out into nearby public water supply boreholes.
Making camp in the Mulga we drew water from the Bore for showers & washing, settling in for a well deserved day off.
They say the system is broken and it is creating hardship for day laborers and their families.
I am bored by Monkey Wood's blantant over-use of charientism and cacophemism for my darkie brethren - it is an abomination to the Lord - who is ironically my next door neighbour ". TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
While being interviewed by a start-up, 'you could say, 'My weakness is I get bored by routine,'' says Ben Dattner, a New York industrial psychologist.
The band's workmanlike performance frequently looked like bored autopilot, while each number sounded more generic than the last. Times, Sunday Times
You could have the ‘generally lazy but remarkably unhelpful’ instead of the ‘bored but capable’ as one of the essential non police staff whose main aim is to reinforce all the urgent and important things from the world where messages ‘really’ matter and the foundations of empire building are well on the way to approval by the forces that do stuff. Cross and Rude. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Gastric lavage should be performed with a large bore orogastric tube.
I followed his advice - and now, ten years later that hellebore is a fine, strong plant that is blooming as I type this.
Many species of the salamander genus Bolitoglossa are arboreal (tree living), rather than typically terrestrial, and their feet are modified for climbing on smooth surfaces.
In addition the barrel bore is hardchrome plated for resistance to corrosion.
Borates are the most effective treatment for many crawling insects including, roaches, silverfish, larder beetles, carpenter ants, and other woodborers, as well as wood decay organisms.
At every halting place the natives capered before them and tabored a welcome, while at Kama, where Gelele was staying, they not only played, but burst out with an extemporaneous couplet in Burton's honour: The Life of Sir Richard Burton
The Watchdog says the word "ash borer" reminds him of his flea problem. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Even without flowers, she says, variegated lamiums are a spectacular foil for hellebores, especially with the white flecks of the ground cover playing off the darker-flowering hellebores.
He used a drill to bore a hole in the door.
The area was the closest to the epicentre of the earthquake, bore the full brunt of the subsequent tsunami and was clearly one of the worst affected areas.
Becoming bored and saturated by their activity, the three unescorted boys ran into the Disney shop.
Its Sunday so I have no qualms about posting a slow boring post, if you're reading this today then you're probably bored too.
In one published familial case, the mother of a 46, XY boy with anorchia who also harbored a p. Val355Met mutation in NR5A1 underwent left ovariectomy and homolateral fallopian tube ablation for ovarian cysts at the age of 22 years and subsequently had two spontaneous miscarriages, an outcome that suggests impaired ovarian function. New England Journal of Medicine
Evidence that Woodrow Call harbored no light feeling for Maggie was right before him: Call looked blank and sad, not unlike the way survivors looked after an Indian raid or a shoot-out of some kind. Comanche Moon
The Siberian northern boreal forests, called Taiga, where the fires were burning are mainly spruce and fir trees.
Not only was I tired, but listening to the same pedantic metaphysical reasoning for the second time from my friend, normally a lively conversationist, bored me out of my skull. An East Wind Coming
Keane's mastery of the holding role in midfield gave the Reds the chance to go out and attack Olympiakos, contradicting the notion that they will have to bore in order to succeed.
I turned up a slightly cynical, badly-dressed student and left three days later, after a short spell in Southampton nick, as the blazing-eyed, still badly-dressed eco-bore I am today.
He seemed faintly bored by the whole process.
It has been my experience that hellebores do not make good long term pot plants; it's best to get them in the ground as quickly as you can once they are of a size to handle the rough and tumble world of the garden.
The refuge helps prevent the development of resistance to European corn borer and corn rootworm.
So-and-so was always a name important enough for her to recognize, and he always said it in a sort of fake bored way that irritated her. Something Unpredictable
I figured people might be getting bored of reading about me all the time
Experts with Gymboree said not only adults need sociality, children from newborns to five-year-olds also need an interest in social events.
In our own solar system, the solar wind is responsible for shaping comets' tails and producing the Aurorae Borealis on Earth.
Lilith had grown bored quickly as she had watched the pair shop for clothes on Fifth Avenue, then go to Times Square and catch a new release.
In future articles, we'll talk about plant chewing critters like beetles, caterpillars, borers, and the Leaf Cutter Bee.
In fact, the CIA had long harbored strong doubts concerning Curveball's veracity.
Quite common are northern bur-reed Sparganium hyperboreum, small pondweed Potamogeton pusillus ssp. groenlandicus, dwarf water-crowfoot Ranunculus confervoides and occasionally awlwort Subularia aquatica, which only blooms if the pond is totally desiccated (where the mudworm Limosella aquatica also thrives). Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
What better place to put our unneeded and unwanted laborers?
Strong gales; bore away for the North Channel, carrying away the foretopsail and lost jib; hove the log several times and found the ship going through the water at the rate of 18 to 18 1/2 knots; lee rail under water and rigging slack. The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors
The court heard that, once inside, the defendant shut the front door, barricaded himself in, said he had a 12 bore shotgun and threatened to kill everyone there if they tried to enter.
Others have countered that small land-dwelling dinosaurs learned to fly without ever developing arboreal habits: no trees were needed.
Now, she would gladly exchange unmitigated boredom for the quivering nerves that alerted her to every shadow. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
I think staleness is a consequence of the writer’s boredom with what he/she is writing. Sandra Brown is Interviewed by Jonathan Maberry
I think, when I was a kid, I was always really fascinated with folk music and folk tales and fairytales and have always just kind of harbored this fascination with them. Colin Meloy: '10-Dollar Words' For A Cause
The blogger known as disillusioned and bored expresses my sentiments succinctly enough. B I A G W M T R
There are five boreholes and water reservoirs with 30,000 litre-capacity.
Boreal Owls, known in Eurasia as Tengmalm's Owls, are small owls of the north.
The Arboretum contains four hundred species of tree and shrub including walnut, beech, cedar, giant thuya, cypress and cork oak.
I wonder whet IT you are not getting bored dealing with like the petty cash transaction.
On one shoulder was fixed the painted figure of an owl; and he bore in the right hand his pastoral staff, and in the left a small mirror having a handle to it, thus resembling a celebrated jester, whose adventures, translated into English, were whilom extremely popular, and which may still be procured in black letter, for about one sterling pound per leaf. The Abbot
L infiniment oubliee (Les ditions du Vermillon) - Jean Mohsen Fahmy, Freres ennemis (VLB Editeur) - Daniel Poliquin, Rene Levesque (Les ditions du Boreal) - Daniel Soha, La Maison: une parabole (ditions du GREF) Canada.com Top Stories
You are too bored and lack enthusiasm for mundane tasks today. The Sun
The little ship tried to escape when the big pirate ship bore down.
Bored by the long drive, Willy and Grecs decided to pass the time by redlining an already heated engine with high speed in low gear.
One day, when the boredom hits me like a brick wall, I will be off, hiking to the base of one of the hundreds of incredible rock formations I have seen or heard about, to begin some real adventures.
The respect in which the synedrial president was held rapidly increased; like Christian patriarchs under Mahometan rule, he was also recognised by the imperial government as the municipal head of the Jews of Palestine, and bore the secular title of the old high priests (nasi, ethnarch, patriarch). Prolegomena
His chin bore a thick growth of stubble.
We have become conditioned to expect certain things in a genre film, and anyone who comes at this one expecting big scares could easily miss its philosophical questioning of superstition and religion, and find himself or herself bored.
He stood upon a glamorously designed rug in which bore a peculiar star-shaped symbol sewn in red, the rug itself was black; it appeared he was in a strange cave.
The interpreter turns to an obviously bored senseless Nic and repeats in a sing-song voice, ‘What do you like about Japan?’
The waves of undular bores typically measure 5 miles from peak to peak and race across the sky at 10 to 50 mph. Weird Weather Makes Waves in Iowa | Impact Lab
Give him a gun and a hot little sports car, and he's a bore just the same.
Towards the middle of the plain, there lay the bodies of several men who had fallen in the very act of grappling with the enemy; and there were seen countenances which still bore the stern expression of unextinguishable hate and defiance, hands which clasped the hilt of the broken falchion, or strove in vain to pluck the deadly arrow from the wound. The Monastery
Upon the shield was the traditional animal, a large bore head with the royal house sword of battle behind it.
My one real gripe is that, after just a couple of weeks, you might get bored of the activities. The Sun
We discussed Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's concerns that blogging is just 'pub bores' ( see debate on political blogging here on TV), the state of the blog wars, in which both sides have taken a lot of flak, particularly Tim, who has provoked a needed debate about damage done to the image of blogging by lack of basic 'netiquette', and who has been viciously ( anonymously) lambasted for it, which rather proves his original point. Blogger TV again
This normally takes place when the crowd is bored. The Sun
He's using small-bore measures aimed at protecting selected industries.
A few years after college, a freak accident - and one seriously low threshold for boredom - redirected Jaime's life.
It's just like the issue of Aida being one of the greatest of all operas and still being a crashing bore.
Euge, euge, di me salvom et servatum volunt. iam ego illuc praecurram atque inscendam aliquam in arborem indeque observabo, aurum ubi abstrudat senex. quamquam hic manere me erus sese iusserat; 680 certum est, malam rem potius quaeram cum lucro. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
Laura was toying with her food and looking increasingly bored.
Michael started to drum his drumsticks against the table, bored.
The only contact they have had is through three bore holes which have pierced their bunker. Times, Sunday Times
A limerick novelist has just launched her second novel, a tale of a bored housewife with a dark secret.
It would not be pleasant, certainly, to sit for an hour at a big empty table, ordering dishes fit only for epicures, and then, just as the waiters bore down with the Little Neck clams, so nicely iced and so cool and bitter-looking, to have to rise and go out into the street to a _table d'hôte_ around the corner. Van Bibber and Others
The technique uses two bore holes drilled into a coal seam. Times, Sunday Times
He bore a tale of woe from the Old World.
In the front matter of Moby-Dick, William Paley's Natural Theology is quoted: "The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival
Two 0.315 bore country-made pistols and two cartridges each were recovered.
For the millennium the hotel planted 600 trees to create an arboretum.
She sighed and put her hands behind her back and swung back in forth in boredom while she waited for the two to finish up what they were doing.
Knowing you, your demolition plans are probably very belt-and-braces, so we can space the bores a bit wider and put more explosive in each one. ' A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
Thank God for the internet, and thank my dad for the laptop, at least I will not be bored till my aunt is here. Blogging from Hilton KL
High cliffs towered above us, and fragments which must have weighed twenty tons had slipped into the water; one of them bore an adansonia, growing head downwards. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
He became a manual laborer and later a postal worker, a position that he retained until his retirement.
Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
Their vehicles bore the blazon of the Afghan Fifteenth Infantry Division. KARA KUSH
There were the vegetable poisons known on Earth, such as hellebore, setterwort, deadly nightshade, and the yew tree. The Status Civilization
Their houses by the river, to the number of twenty-two (_palagi e case grandi_), were sacked and burnt, and many among the chief of those who bore the Bardi name were driven from the city. Romola
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems. Zig Ziglar
The.32 Mag. cartridge fits the Bisley to a ‘T’, making it the ultimate in small-bore single actions.
Water in all the boreholes that were sunk in the area had turned salty and the commodity could not be used for domestic purposes, not even for irrigation because the crops were drying.
Borek, which is a pastry roll filled with cheese or ground meat, and dolma, made from stuffed grape leaves, green pepper or eggplant are most often served prior to the meal.
The epaulettes on the choker tunic of his black naval uniform bore the four stripes of his rank.
Increasing persistence with a number of short-range goals can help break up periods of boredom.
Now, I'd probably get bored by our lack of common interests and go out with a librarian instead.
‘There were all the signs of it being a spectacular autumn but if you look around the arboretum a lot of trees are still green,’ he said.
In case it be thought that a note of selfpity has crept in to this account of my apparent boredom, I must say that the intention was never to complain about my fate, but merely to explain the form of my protest. An Autobiography
I wouldnt trade it: I can intuit things you can't, enjoy things that would bore you crosseyed, exult in solitary pursuits that might derange another man, convince you of things you'd never believe, teach and explain things to you you think youd never understand. Aspergers
It bore a crown on a purple cushion and a wreath of white flowers with the message: ‘In Loving Memory, Lilibet’.
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you … or else it is nothing, an empty journalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations. A ringing endorsement ...
Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie. Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
And that is how Dave left the world of gee-gees behind him and ended up bored out of his skull in the same office as me at the Ministry of Agriculture.
But how little would what are commonly called the rudiments of education, add to their qualifications as laborers? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
The Cardioceratidae were virtually the only ammonites in the Boreal area, to which they were confined.
The mere laborer has thus no more interest in the general advance of productive power than the Cuban slave had in the advance in the price of sugar.
We made all sail,and bore up for Hawaii.

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