Dull is that man who lendeth not his voice to Herakles, nor hath in remembrance continually the waters of Dirke that nurtured him and Iphikles.

Dull of heart and sadly unlike a mother was the Church when, by the Act of Uniformity of Charles II., she drove from her bosom such a son, with his two thousand brethren of the clergy!

Feet are given to these according to the degree of their stupidity, to multiply approximations to the earth; and the dullest become reptiles who drag the whole length of their bodies on the ground.

The dull, the formal, and the visionary, the hard-honest man, and the poor-liver, are a people I have had no connection with; but have always kept company with the polite, the generous, the lively, the rational, and the brightest freethinkers of this age.

"Is it not, mon cher" she went on, "that the cinemas will always be most popularhowever dull may be the picturesso long as boys and girls, men and women, who love, desire to fondle one another's hands in the dark?" "You and Rust did not love one another," I grunted.

"Dull?" was the reply.

Dull is the only word I can think of that exactly describes himdull and prosy.

"Dull indeed must be his soul, unsympathetic his nature who can see the forests and mountains of Luzon, Queen of the Eastern Isles, fade away into dim violet outlines on the fast receding horizon without some pang of longing regret.

"Why, I've heard her keep a whole roomful of people laughing, and every one of them as dull as ditch-water till she came in.

Not but that I was up to it all the time, or else I should have skedaddled; for this place was bound to be as dull as ditchwater."

The place, however, was not to his taste; and he was not the first traveller in France who, delighted with the gaiety of Paris, has been disappointed at finding that French provincial towns can be as dull as dulness itself could require.

It's lucky that weddings need the jokes of brisk fellows like myself, and that without us they would be as dull as gatherings of pigs rather than of human beings!