64 collocations for tire

The long visit my uncle made us was such an important event in my life, that I fear I shall tire your patience with talking of him; but when he is gone, the remainder of my story will be but short.

"Well, it tires a horse down.

" I should tire my reader if I were to recount all the professional talk that followed; for although Willie found it most interesting, and began to feel as if he should soon be able to make a shoe himself, it is a very different thing merely to read about itthe man's voice not in your ears, and the work not going on before your eyes.

So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way, Th' increasing prospects tire our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

When, in my astonishment, I advanced upon him there, he wheeled about quite naturally in my direction and, accosting me by name, remarked, in his genial off-hand manner: "There is no need for us to tire our legs in a chase after that man.

He had busied himself to find her easy work, and a friend of his had given her some cardboard boxes to paste together, the only employment that did not tire her thin weak hands.

Mr. Knox was a man of enormous stature, and it was said he could tire out a dozen ordinary men at a fire.

But most part they offend in that other extreme, they prescribe too much physic, and tire out their bodies with continual potions, to no purpose.

That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing: So when the sun's broad beam has tired the sight, All mild ascends the moon's more sober light, Serene in virgin modesty she shines, And unobserved the glaring orb declines.

I shall not tire you with a prolonged narrative of how I enjoyed, month after month, for more than two years, the society of Eudora, during which time she made satisfactory advances in education and accomplishment and attained in grace and loveliness the absolute perfection of womanhood.

Love with them never grows weary, nor can the circles of the stars tire out their dancing feet.

But there's no meddling with such nauseous men; 80 Their very names have tired my lazy pen: 'Tis time to quit their company, and choose Some fitter subject for sharper muse.

Yet I went on, as men will do, like persevering charlatans and impostors, who tire people into credulity by the mere force of reiteration; so I hoped to win myself over at last to a comfortable scepticism about the ghost.

But for this belief, Merriwell would have been inclined to keep on and tire his enemy out, without striking a single blow that could leave a mark.

Physical labour is thrown as much as possible on the young; and even they are now so helped by machinery and by trained animals, that the eight hours' work which forms their day's labour hardly tires their muscles.

Aware that I am in want of a damsel like yourself, to tire my hair and attend upon me, Lord Roos has drawn my attention to you; and if I may trust to appearancesas I think I may," she added, with a very flattering and persuasive smile, "in your caseyou are the very person to suit me, provided you are willing to enter my service.

We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire: Where'er we flew they follow'd on, Nor left us with the morning sun.

I have tired her ladyship's kindness out, and I will go;" and sinking down on his knee, took the rough hand of his benefactor and kissed it.

I wonder if they ever tire one another!In my early life I had a passionate fondness for the poetry of Burns.

" I had some other discourse with him, which now I cannot call to mind: and I fear I have already tired your Lordship.

"I eat and I do enough physical work to tire a stone-mason"

If the body be overtired, it tires the mind.

That they need not tire their mounts by hard riding, Mr. Wilder had purposely set the start early and, with Snider on one side and Bill on the other, he led the cavalcade, setting the pace at a slow lope.

Then, to avoid tiring his mule, he got off and sat by a tree, at a place where he could see far along the road.

It tires a man's neck to be for ever gazing upward, and statues are less agreeable companions than human beings.

64 collocations for  tire