96 adjectives to describe bores

In the "Monitor" and its type the means of offence were two 11-inch smooth-bore cast-iron guns, followed later by larger guns of 13 and 15 inches of similar type.

She is a dreadful bore, for she lives in such terror of dropping dead with her heart-complaint that she doesn't take any pleasure in life herself or let any one else; so the sooner she goes the better for all of us," said Polly, in a desperate tone; for things looked very black to her just then.

,or, in other words, the difference, oftentimes, between success and ruin, between comfort and discomfort, between being a welcome and a hated visitor, between being honored as an able merchant and contemned as a mean man or an unmitigated bore.

" Much I marvell'd this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore;

This memorial bore also the signatures of the celebrated Alexander Hamilton; Robert R. Livingston, afterward Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the United States, and Chancellor of the State of New-York; James Duane, Major of the City of New-York, and many others of the most eminent individuals in the State.

Four barrels are fired almost instantaneously, and the deadly "twelve-bore" of your companion is seldom fired in vain.

"To be sure, Norris was a sad bore!

This new uncle, she reflected, might become an intolerable bore, if she encouraged his frank familiarity.

Bruce really must have been a more formidable bore than she had known, since his absence left such a delicious freedom.

She takes that great ease impersonally, her pose is, 'It's a gift from Heaven, and an infernal bore.'

A very low sandy point bore North 67 degrees, East 6 miles.

A virgin bore Fanouel by smelling the tree; and Fanouel having once come unawares to that tree of life, and cut a fruit from it, wiped his knife against his thigh, in which he inflicted a slight wound, and thus let in some of the juice.

"Stupid, tedious old bore!"

The whole Sacra via from this point is crowded; here Horace a generation later was to meet his immortal "bore," from whom he only escaped when the "ferrea iura" laid a strong hand on that terrible companion.

Never from the field of combat, Never from the deadly fray, Was a nobler trophy carried Than we bring with us to-day; Never, since the valiant Douglas On his dauntless bosom bore Good King Robert's heartthe priceless To our dear Redeemer's shore!

body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre^, hygre^; fresh, freshet; indraught^, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge^, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation^. wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; anerythmon gelasma

I know that I'd be half mad with excitement to get at the new job, and that I'd find re-assuring the loved ones (exquisite phrase number two) a hideous bore.

A veterinary hypodermic, of extra large bore.

It is an extreme bore: all the more reason for showing such an ugly front, as to give people no chance of its happening again.

One day in November he was accosted at the club by his familiar bore.

And after that his obliging fancy bore him up Franklin Street, through Monroe Park, and so to Miss Sally Berkeley's door.

Thus it happened that the account of a terrible collision between the Scotch express and a luggage train, a little way beyond Preston, an accident in which seven people were killed and about thirty seriously hurt, was not made known to her ladyship; and yet that fact would have been of intense interest and significance to her, since one of those passengers whose injuries were fatal bore the name of Louis Asoph. CHAPTER XVII.

Marriage would be highly successful were it not for the fearful bore of living together.

How long has the fellow bore as he does now?" "He came out from under Blok Island a few hours since, and we made him by moonlight.

My weapon was a beautifully finished No. 12 smooth-bore, made expressly to order for an officer in the Royal Artillery, from whom I bought it.

96 adjectives to describe  bores