How To Use Weary In A Sentence

Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
I love the way Sarajevans express themselves; it's a kind of world-weary, mordant wit overlying an amazing ability to absorb and survive great suffering. A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England. In the Wrong Paradise

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Activists who have fought land rights battles inspired by the Constitution are a weary, dispirited lot.
As the terse replies pile up, I am on the point of suggesting that he looks weary, as though his dog has died, only for it to emerge that his dog has died.
Willoughby in outwearying: she asked herself how much she had gained by struggling: -- every effort seemed to expend her spirit's force, and rendered her less able to get the clear vision of her prospects, as though it had sunk her deeper: the contrary of her intention to make each further step confirm her liberty. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
A simple drive through the countryside, past sheep ranch after sheep ranch, is balm for a weary soul.
At that time, I being but eight years of age, was left in town for the convenience of education, boarded with an aunt, who was a rigid presbyterian, and confined me so closely to what she called the duties of religion, that in time I grew weary of her doctrines, and by degrees received an aversion for the good books, she daily recommended to my perusal. The Adventures of Roderick Random
At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot. Spinifex and Sand
I am aweary of awaiting thine arrival; for indeed long hath been thine absence from the lover which longeth for thee. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world
So, much as I’m weary of western politicians who couldn’t tell the Ka’ba from a peach cobbler going on about how extremists are “perverting” Islam — how the hell do they know? — this article, which got its author suspended from his radio talk show hosting job for its claim that “Islam is a terror organization,” is truly, profoundly stupid. Excommunicated from the Ummah?
Mr. Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured with unwearying civility that they were perfectly needless. Pride and Prejudice
They made fireless camps above timber line, thawing their meat rations with the heat of their bodies before they could eat .... weary ghosts in a dead world. “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
But it may prove the last bargaining chip of a desperate, war-weary people. Times, Sunday Times
While I enjoyed the news-less interlude, too many strikes will weary public patience and risk handing viewers and listeners to the opposition.
Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all. Times, Sunday Times
I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
Kippletringan was distant at first a gey bit; then the gey bit was more accurately described, as ablins three mile; then the three mile diminished into like a mile and a bittock; then extended themselves into four mile or there-awa; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
(_And with a weary gesture he points to the orchids, as though they were things of which, not impossibly, "posies" might be made_.) Angels & Ministers
He was not thinking of the girl beside him; only something seemed to swell and grow and swell within his heart; it was all the torture of his days, weary hopes and weary disappointment, scorn rankling and throbbing, and the thought "I had rather call the devils my brothers and live with them in hell. The Hill of Dreams
The first foot-weary shoppers began to emerge with one female shopper expertly manoeuvring a giant trolley containing a four-seater sofa to the check-out.
He was watchful, weary, worried, and altogether untrusting of anything she and her companions said or did.
You'd find the sly looks to camera wearying. Times, Sunday Times
I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
Latimer, despite having opportunity to preach often in London, soon grew weary of court and the king offered him a benefice at West Kington, in Wiltshire.
It was a victory to bring a smile to the face of even the most cynical and world-weary sport-watcher.
The low guttural syllables meant nothing to her, but the weary tone did.
I use words to describe them here, because words are what I have, but my weary brain soaks them in as pure experience. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Post Book Crash
Phoebus > (Who each day drives his chariot across the sky) 9 In western waves his weary wagon did recure. recure > restore, refresh The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
He's the opposite of the sophisticated, cultured, world-weary foreign correspondent.
This is a tough, cynical world with plenty of murders and world-weary cops trying their best to solve them.
All of us were weak and weary as we journeyed home.
Tom is soon so weary and exhausted that he cannot even read his Bible, and he draws it out of his pocket one night and attempts to read it as his meager corn cake is cooking.
My feet were beginning to blister, and my joints ached, but finally, tired and weary, I reached the final step.
Lengthy bonding scenes follow in which, inevitably, the hardened, world-weary, cynical bodyguard learns to love the winsome little blonde.
`Upon his return from the wars the weary warrior is greeted by the indifference not to say hostility of an ingrate citizenry. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
She pitched her voice here to sound slightly exasperated, slightly weary - not angry.
With a distressed eyeroll at Seanglenn Beckhannity, and a weary headshake at Keithrachel Olbermaddowman, not to mention clenched fists of despair at TalkRadio VonHateScream, let me remind the rest of us -- aka. most people -- that just because the makers of so called News think Balanced and Thoughtful is some long-ago folk duo, it doesn't mean we should join in the sneerfest, and passively watch as standards continue to plummet. Roderick Spencer: Fake News Is the Real News
An ecolodge only accessible by plane and boat (they'll pick you up from Cairns airport), with just 17 rooms, it's tucked in the rainforest, overlooking the dreary-sounding but wonderful - looking Weary Bay.
Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
He reverts to the world-weary pundit voice known to viewers.
He turned to a life of petty thievery when his friend managed to steal a gold coin from a weary traveler.
how he had grown weary for his native countryside, for the smithy: weary of living always so far away from them all, and of the disciplinemuch harsher of lateas well as of his comrades, who called him Prussian because of his Alsatian accent. The Bad Zouave
Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all. Times, Sunday Times
A small, weary, rueful smile. Times, Sunday Times
She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the _mal de raquette_, the shrivelling bite of the frost, the pain of snow blindness, the hunger that yet could not stomach the frozen fish nor the hairy, black caribou meat. The Call of the North
Oracle smiled a weary smile with sadness in it. A Plague of Angels
Thus we were stumbling on, very weary, very hungry, the man with the want in a constant wail, and Sonachan lamenting for suppers he had been saucy over in days of rowth and plenty, when a light oozed out of the grey-dark ahead of us, in the last place in the world one would look for any such sign of humanity. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
They had wrested the lead from Melrose by a one-point margin, and were facing an opposition that looked rattled, weary and vulnerable, with just five minutes to go.
It is a building where the homeless, bedless, penniless man, if he be lucky, may CASUALLY rest his weary bones, and then work like a navvy next day to pay for it. A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
It had been something more than "wearying," -- that dull pain that had ached at Lilias 'heart since they parted. The Orphans of Glen Elder
The writer realised they were weary and had lost heart, so he administers the sovereign remedy for that condition.
Some people never seem to weary of eating the same type of food every day.
A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
‘Good luck trying to find your trends,’ he said with a world-weary head shake.
He sounds weary but implacable. Times, Sunday Times
In his many years as a councillor he has witnessed many intrigues, backstabbings and bunfights at Hull's Guildhall - and his reaction to the latest particularly vicious spat is a weary shrug.
The vanities of sovereignty had never any particular charm for Charles V.; he was not a man who cared "to monarchise and kill with looks," or who could feel a pang at parting with the bauble of a crown; and when the wise world cried out in their surprise, and strained their fancies for the cause of conduct which seemed so strange to them, they forgot that princes who reign to labour, grow weary like the peasant of the burden of daily toil. The Reign of Mary Tudor
I was weary of the people and what they called their conservatism, which is only a phase of stupidity. Half a Rogue
It had been a long and arduous journey from her home in Scotland and she was weary to her bones.
I join the shadows on the wall / To watch with weary silver eyes / Poets who soliloquize … The Night Of the Solstice
Our greatest hope is that humanity has grown weary of violence and is ready to listen.
The girl was so worn and weary that she curled up beneath the blanket and closed her eyes at once.
His rueful recollections shed light on an often-perplexing artistic career, one that has left him looking distinctly battle-weary.
Warren was too weary to waste words with the youngster.
He swam for a few strokes, then turned on his back to float, too weary or too hurt to keep swimming. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
There's little doubt but it was him that dwalled se lang in Janet's body; but he was awa 'at last; and sinsyne the deil has never fashed us in Ba'weary. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories
He understood our innate need for rest and decompression, which is why He offered to provide His followers with a place of spiritual refuge when He said, Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. TEXAS FAITH: What do your spiritual paths say about the role of play? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
III. i.112 (465,2) So weary with disasters, tug'd with fortune] _Tug'd with fortune_ may be, _tug'd_ or _worried_ by fortune. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Queen Aziza released a weary sigh and brought two hand-painted platters with food to the table, then set them down. Surrender the Dark
Infection; Misfortunes may be catching as well as Sickness; leave me alone to my Sighs and Tears; stay not at all, lest my unweary Tongue pronounce your Ruin; leave me, I say, that I may gently expire without the Agony of seeing you undone. Exilius
Does a 'his weary kiaugh and care beguile, Does all his weary cark (fret) and care beguile. Selections from Five English Poets
A society that has grown weary of God and politics has few talismans against disaster.
Remember, I don't write all my inane prattle here for personal or financial benefit, but merely to try and lighten the dark corners of your souls, and edify your weary minds.
Yvon's Paris" offers dozens of glorious photographs, many filling two pages -- flat paper magically alive with moments stolen from time: flower sellers, bargemen, weary blinkered horses, a boating party in the Bois de Boulogne. Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit
The front desk was old-school, too - a weary homunculus behind a desk, reading a newspaper, fetching your key and your messages from the slots behind him.
Two minutes into extra time, our weary legs found new energy and our optimism was confirmed. Times, Sunday Times
Once the preserve of the white Bible belt, today's country speaks to rap-weary black audiences.
The first of these seems to have caused a sense of gloom, despondency and weary hopelessness to descend on the author as he sat down to put his book together.
Mrs. Trebond looked weary, but Angel could tell that she was exhilarated by the tell-tale flush on her cheeks.
He often combined his talents, whether it were to soothe the weary souls at the local pub or fell an ice dragon in the depths of the abyssal caverns.
Three-and-twenty years form a large portion of the short life of man, -- one-third, as nearly as can be expressed in unbroken numbers, of the entire term fixed by the psalmist, and full one-half, if we strike off the twilight periods of childhood and immature youth, and of senectitude weary of its toils. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Butter-sautéed beef on a vinaigrette-laced green salad was tough and tasted of weary oil; so-called ginger snow peas with tofu tasted mainly of carbonized singe and incinerated red onion.
Fifteen years in the teaching profession had left him world-weary and cynical.
For miles and miles, above and around, great billowy masses, tossed and twisted into an infinity of fantastic shapes, arrest and weary the eye, lava in all its forms, from a compact phonolite, to the lightest pumice stone, the mere froth of the volcano, exceeding in wildness and confusion the most extravagant nightmare ever inflicted on man. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Although you are speaking before the National Football League's 2011 season kick off between the Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints, the pressure and intensity is more akin to the fútbol moment weary fans are only too familiar with: the nail biting end when the hard-fought soccer championship between teams tied in skill and public support hinges on a postgame penalty shoot-out. Viviana Hurtado: Open Letter to Barack Obama: Mr. President, Three Plays to Score a Jobs Golazo
Imagination, -- all from which, when it was all his own, he had turned half weary and impatient, and termed the exaggerations of a visionary romance, now that the world had lost them evermore, he interpreted aright as truths. My Novel — Volume 12
Yet he knows such things are fickle and there's a weary guardedness about him.
While such toe-curling confessionals may grate with some, they nonetheless fill its forty-five minutes with a world-weary warmth and idealism to match the boundary-breaking beats.
In the little trading towns, the traders sat in their shops, far too weary to cry their wares.
They recommend that weary drivers should have two cups of coffee followed by a quick kip before driving off. Times, Sunday Times
He rubbed a weary hand over his face and turned towards the small kitchen where he riffled through the fridge, searching for something, anything, that was edible.
Luckily the performers had enough energy to rouse even this heat-weary crowd, with one dance after another full of high-powered jumps, stomps, shimmies, and kicks.
It was really an admirable little dinner; the claret was a famous one from the Anglemere cellars, and warmed to a nicety; the coffee was perfection; Sparling's ministrations left nothing to be desired; and yet Drake sank into his easy-chair after the meal with a sigh that was weary and wistful. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden
Mushing together some of Yoko Ono's classic toothy chitter, some lethargic piano, and haphazard sound tweaking, it's topped off by weary chants and hand drums.
Plus, any band who produce We Care A Lot, a brutally fun hymn for the apathy generation is bound to grab any world-weary fifteen year old by the scruff of the neck.
Slowly, they emerge out of a cloud of dust, like a weary ragtag army retreating from battle, a column of guests hauling enormous suitcases and mewling children.
She is restless, seriously jaded and weary of the word processor.
Erratic Typhoon Lupit hovers near Philippines, keeps residents on edge Erratic typhoon keeps Philippines on edgeMANILA, Philippines - Living up to its name, Typhoon Lupit - meaning cruel in Filipino - zigzagged around the rain-soaked northern Philippines on Friday, keeping weary residents on edge and forecasters guessing about its next move. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Weary and footsore, they trundled slowly out of the forest, the horses stumbling slightly despite the bright sunlight filtering in overhead.
Weary of the general air of malaise in the Observer office, she had written round.
I think he's a little weary after his long journey.
It is not weary, as soon as under us stands forever.
A weary sigh escaped him.
It's fun, it's ironic - for world-weary toymakers seeking the next big thrill. Times, Sunday Times
You'd find the sly looks to camera wearying. Times, Sunday Times
Occasionally he sounded like a war-weary veteran. Times, Sunday Times
Weary, famished and despairing at the end of 1846, the peasants of one of the most famine-ravaged counties in the country hoped for better things in the coming year.
My comment draws a weary smile. Times, Sunday Times
He suggests only that in time, we will become so weary of our punitive politics that the system will, out of necessity, "outgrow" or "outlive" its current fractiousness. Fight Club
They weary themselves with worrying and exhaust us about things that have little chance of happening. Christianity Today
She laments repeatedly, ‘My life is dreary, He cometh not… I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead’.
We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics.
I nestled down close to him, relieved in mind and body, and I was just thinking that though scraps of slaty stone and brashy earth were not good things for stuffing a feather-bed, they were, all the same, very comfortable for a weary person to lie upon, when I felt a hand laid upon my shoulder, and opening my eyes found the sun shining brightly and Patience Wins War in the Works
When it takes three hours to prepare something dead simple, and leaves you drooping and weary, then a lifetime of critical standards go out of the window. Times, Sunday Times
Jonathan had looked restrained, almost world-weary, and perhaps a little jaded even.
And while it makes for a fascinating listen, it also makes for a wearying one.
Now and then, a rickshaw wallah or an empty tonga, driver half asleep, weary horse barely moving, strayed across their path. TANK OF SERPENTS
Pastors weary of authoritative pronouncements by liturgiologists will be grateful for his pastoral experience and firsthand knowledge of the knotty problems involved in an awkward request for baptism.
Anest was awakened from the deep, dream-filled, restorative sleep of the travel-weary by an annoying, persistent knocking at the door.
Most parts of the interior are inaccessible due to the continuing fighting, making it difficult for aid agencies to reach war-weary residents in these areas.
The little court-jester had seen the witticisms especially reserved for such wearying weather, received in abstracted silence. The Golden Apple Tree
Pet cafés began in Japan, where weary workers would relax to the purrs of contented cats. Times, Sunday Times
Add to these a little love and counterplotting, and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars -- dollars warmed no more by the torrid sun than by the hot palms of the scouts of Fortune -- and, after all, here seems to be Life, itself, with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses. Cabbages and Kings
They are the source of wealth and the hope of a world weary of poverty and weary of oppression.
She finally stood up, straightening her dress, as her boyfriend propped his weary, languid body up on his elbows.
Each one wore an iron carcanet, and the crowd was never weary of coming to gaze at them. Salammbo
But in the expression of her countenance there was no character of suffering or distress; on the contrary, a wondrous serenity, that made her beauty more beauteous, her very youthfulness younger; and when this spurious or partial kind of syncope passed, she recovered at once without effort, without acknowledging that she had felt faint or unwell, but rather with a sense of recruited vitality, as the weary obtain from a sleep. A Strange Story — Volume 02
In their letters and journals pioneer women mostly complained of being bone weary and about the difficulties of day-to-day existence. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Those of us attached to the place have long grown weary of the place's reputation. The Times Literary Supplement
For years we whined about being the supporting characters on television shows: the wacky neighbor, the snippy coworker, the world-weary yet worldly-wise florist, the dog walker, the minty banker.
She found it a bit strange that they had drawn her up a bath and then placed her in such a nicely furnished room, but was too weary to think on it much.
And owsen frae the furrowed field return sae dowf and weary o, The Lea Rig
His wearying recourse to the one-liner is the literary equivalent of tossing choc drops to the reader.
Harrell's presence was like aversion therapy, shocking Hyde out of his numb, weary self-absorption. THE LAST RAVEN
But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. Nineteen Eighty-four
People weary of Vista's mindless restrictions should not hesitate to upgrade.
Her boss, Keith, is a world-weary figure whose vast experience is matched by his ineffectiveness.
Over month after weary month they tried to deal with its intolerable burden. Times, Sunday Times
His dark hair was greying and his face was careworn and weary.
[- 24 -] And they would have perished utterly, but for the fact that some of the pikes of the barbarians were bent and others were broken, while the bowstrings snapped under the constant shooting, the missiles were all discharged, every sword blunted, and, chief of all, that the men themselves grew weary of the slaughter. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
In summer it stood in the midst of a waving garden of buttercups and whiteweed, a towering mass of verdant leafage, a shelter from the sun and a refuge from the storm; a cool, splendid, hospitable dome, under which the weary farmer might fling himself, and gaze upward as into the heights and depths of an emerald heaven. The Village Watch-Tower
And then he marched from his training pitch, sweat glistening on his many tattoos, looking weary. Times, Sunday Times
But, Charles having got over to Scotland where the men of the Solemn League and Covenant led him a prodigiously dull life and made him very weary with long sermons and grim Sundays, the Parliament called the redoubtable Oliver home to knock the Scottish men on the head for setting up that Prince. A child`s history of England
He might prowl about for a week or two like a dog in springtime, then, all skin and bones and weary of the world, he would return from his wanderings and never recall what happened to him, what women had said, what they smelled and tasted like ... A beautiful excerpt from Sunflower
In Britain, Churchill and Milner were the main advocates of this, but Lloyd George, fearing disaffection among war-weary troops and workers, was opposed.
Pupils soon grow weary of a parade of historical topics selected solely because they appear to have a popular appeal or relevance.
Ah!" said she, "thy question, Joyce, and the children's answers, send me back a weary way, nigh sixty years gone, to the time when I dwelt bowerwoman with my Lady of Surrey, when one even the Lady of Richmond willed us all to tell our desires after this manner. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Giovanni directed a weary man-to-man glance at his superior that expressed as clearly as any words could, `You see what I mean. MURKY SHALLOWS
And "selfless" - so did they wish themselves with good reason, all those world-weary cowards and cross-spiders! Thus Spake Zarathustra
Besides, the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably.
As for the attempt of Veragua, or Signior PEZOROS house by land, by marching through the woods; he liked not of, lest it might overweary his men by continual labour; whom he studied to refresh and strengthen for his next service forenamed. Sir Francis Drake Revived. Paras. 200-292
His clothes are soaked by the torrent of rain, and he is weary. Christianity Today
I will not weary you, or spoil the book, by telling you what all these problems are.
Seasoned fairgoer Dennis Scholl said the echo chamber of the Internet allowed complaints about the virtual fair to resonate louder than they might at a physical fair, where a massive online audience isn't privy to world-weary collectors rolling their eyes and griping in the aisles. An Art Fair's Tangled Web
She looked so miserably old and weary that he called a gondola to his landing and made her get into it with him. A Foregone Conclusion
One was bored, weary of attendance at Court. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
The six cameras dotted around the court picked up her pinched and weary face as the Lord Advocate began questioning her.
IT is a weary thing to lie tossing restlessly from side to side, sleepless, through the silent watches of the night, spirit and matter warring against each other -- the sword gnawing and corroding its sheath. Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
I trust, that I have not extended this privilege beyond the grounds on which I have claimed it; namely, the conveniency of the scholastic phrase to distinguish the kind from all degrees, or rather to express the kind with the abstraction of degree, as for instance multeity instead of multitude; or secondly, for the sake of correspondence in sound in interdependent or antithetical terms, as subject and object; or lastly, to avoid the wearying recurrence of circumlocutions and definitions. Biographia Literaria
His face is weary beyond description.
Now, then, do be hasteful, Rose Allen; I'm that weary! The King's Daughters
The boy was somewhat spiritless and weary-looking; he could not be pronounced to be ill or really weak now, yet there was something wanting in him which ought to have been there, making him more atune to spring-time. The Heiress of Wyvern Court
Weary, listening to the whistling and the shuffling of feet, felt a queer, qualmy feeling in the region of his diaphragm, and he yielded to The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
The man operating the cash register sighed in a world-weary fashion and darted his eyes around to ensure there weren't too many people around.
There is more poignant music in the Primavera, in the weary, indifferent countenances of his lean, neuropathic Madonnas -- Pater calls them "peevish" -- in his Venus of the Promenades of an Impressionist
This ardent nature awoke fire beneath the ashes; the proud bearing of the Indian suited the chivalric hidalgo; and then, weary of the Spanish nobles, in whom he no longer had confidence, disgusted with the selfish mestizoes, who wished to aggrandize themselves at his expense, he took a pleasure in turning to that primitive race, who have disputed so valiantly the American soil with the soldiers of Pizarro. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
By late summer, it has dried almost entirely - nothing but weary, bent tules and polygonal cracks in sunbaked mud.
Rawlins operates on the streets, filtering the ghetto life around him through a world view that is cynical to the point of world-weary.
With a weary smile, she takes to the stage. Times, Sunday Times
Thus he spake, and straightway they ceased from such words and gave unwearying labour to the oar; and quickly they passed by the swiftly flowing river Rhebas and the peak of Colone, and soon thereafter the black headland, and near it the mouth of the river Phyllis, where aforetime The Argonautica
Still, even when it veers into the realm of Spinach TV — so good-for-you that it feels more dutiful than good — OWN is by and large a refreshing respite from the wearying, soul-numbing cable norm, which often exploits and celebrates our worst behaviors. Matt's TV Week in Review
The recent responses from Libertines fans have made me a little bored and aweary.
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Here we are weary and toil worn, but yonder is the land of rest where the sweat of labour shall no more bedew the workers brow, and fatigue shall be forever banished.
I won’t weary you with the whole course of investigation, but I may sum up its results, and they are these — that the torula is a particular kind of a fungus, a particular state rather, of a fungus or mould. Essays
Oracle smiled a weary smile with sadness in it. A Plague of Angels
Luckily the performers had enough energy to rouse even this heat-weary crowd, with one dance after another full of high-powered jumps, stomps, shimmies, and kicks.
Once the preserve of the white Bible belt, today's country speaks to rap-weary black audiences.
Still weary, he followed behind me as I cleaved through the crowds toward Elizabeth.
It struck me this week, as I watched news footage of weary London rail commuters moaning about fares going up, what quite incredible value a railcard is compared to a car.
I lowered my pack to the floor and gave her a weary smile as she slowed down to a walk, staring as she approached.
He nodded slightly and raised a still gloved left hand to give her a thumbs-up sign along with a weary smile.
He was a pair of hands; he was a strong back; his sturdy legs were fit to do the commonest, the heaviest, the most weary work in the world.
By now, though, Fitzpatrick is a little weary of the implicit compliments.
He stepped out into the cabin, with its panelled walls of cedar and maple, and with its long table that seated ten, and at which he had eaten by himself through all the weary time. THE SEA FARMER
The weary walkers soothed their aching feet in the sea.
‘I'm sorry about this,’ he said, sounding weary.
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The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary.
Here was no commonplace, no Oakland Estuary, no weary round of throwing newspapers at front doors, delivering ice, and setting up ninepins. Chapter 6
For a moment she stood drinking in the chill of the night air and listening to the distant weary plash of the ocean. COMPULSION
From the drinker it taketh away strength," I mocked, "and to the man unweary it burdeneth him into sleep. THE DEATH OF LIGOUN
He gave a weary, embarrassed chuckle and mopped at his face.
The men were weary with starvation and thirst, when they were eventually rescued by Solomon Islanders loyal to the Allies.
Still it made him tired, unaccountably so, weary of travel and botched plans, filled with a mopish longing for the journey to end, not just in Urumchi, but the entire expedition back to Hong Kong, back to Taipei, and then the long transpacific flight back to the United States and his inevitable return to Red Bud, Illinois. Heaven Lake
It called Calvary, the hill where Jesus agonized, “The shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land.” CLEAR PICTURES

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