To-night, what with being held off by his snow-shoes, what with utter weariness and a dulled axe, he growled to himself that he was "only gnawin' a ring round the tree like a beaver!"

I have wondered often why many a woman does not lie down and die, for sheer weariness of body and soul.

there is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth and die ere middle age, Without the violence of warlike death; Some perishing of pleasuresome of study Some worn with toilsome of mere weariness Some of diseaseand some insanity And some of wither'd or of broken hearts; For this last is a malady which slays More than are number'd in the lists of Fate; Taking all shapes, and bearing many names.

" Piers sat down, his attitude one of intense weariness.

Gone was the leaden weariness of her day's toil Something intimate and kind in the glance Stoddard had given her remained warm at her heart, and set that heart singing.

He opened his eyes with an infinite weariness as Harber entered the room, and achieved a smile.

He had two Schutzenfest targets in his cuffs; in one hand he held an enormous cane, in the other a cigar, and through an eyeglass he gazed at the ankles on the gang-plank with an air of patient weariness with this slow old world that was very touching.

The life of most of my countrymen would be to me intolerable weariness, if only from the utter want, after wealth is attained, of all warmer and less isolated interest than some one pet scientific pursuit can afford; and yet more from the total absence of affection, family duties, and the various mental occupations which interest in others affords.

By December 5, the 130th day of the war, after a seven-weeks' struggle by the Germans for the possession of the French and Belgian coast, there was a general cessation of offensive operations by both sides and the indications were that this condition was due to pure physical weariness of leaders and men.

To quench th' impatient thirstthen stop awhile To see the sun upon the waters smile, In that sweet weariness, when, long denied, We drink and view the fountain that supplied The sparkling blissand feel, if not express, Our perfect ease in that sweet weariness.

In universal weariness of revolution and civil war, and in consciousness of being too debased for self-government, the nation had submitted itself to the absolute authority of Augustus.

Cheerful usually, even gay, brave, and ready with lines of smile; but in repose so marked, so scarred with unutterable weariness and disappointment, that tears spring in the eyes and love in the hearts of all finely organized persons who meet them.

"Why, where's the Mem?" He came up with evident weariness, but replied cheerfully: "She's very sorry, and sent chin-chins all round.

But the door opened before she reached it, and Mavity Bence stood there, in her face the deadly weariness of all woman's toil and travail since the fall.

" "Oh, what's the use?" he said, an immense weariness in his voice.

He had dwelt most upon their mental weariness, especially on Sundays.

" The surpriseit might almost have been taken for alarmwhich he had shown at the first sight of Alec seemed to have given place to a gentle and amiable weariness, which persisted through the recital of the Captain's experienceshow his errand of courtesy, or gallantry, had led to his being on the road across the heath so late at night, and of what he had seen there.

Prior to the death of Mr. Brush there was a great deal of curious and some idle speculation as to his ultimate successor in case of decease, or, in the event of his retirement because of bodily weariness.

What with them was a mortal weariness, a melancholy frenzy, is with us a gay folly, a delicious delirium.

The invigorating coolness, the tranquil hour, the prospect of a safe if not a speedy arrival, and the relief from excessive weariness, produced a sudden and agreeable re-action in the feelings of all.

Unspeakable weariness was in his pose, and yet he did not relax or yield a hair's breadth to the body's importunity.

His clothing was stained and torn, and he bore all the signs of a long journey and extreme weariness.

The little exertion which it was well she was required to make produced a pleasant weariness.

About four weeks after my healing, had occasion to walk four miles, which I did with little or no weariness.

And so I planted my corn; and in the evening I felt the dumb weariness of physical toil.