In this way Miss Mooney lived a good deal in the past, but she was not unaware of the present, and was always particularly nice to people generally regarded as bores.

Those solemn Bores, the Latin augurs, were in the habit of foretelling the triumph or downfall of the Roman Eagles by the flight of Crows, and St. PETER was once convicted of three breaches of veracity by a Crow.

If this should necessitate the appointment of a Controller of Bores he will find abundance of work.

People who always know why they do things are great bores.

"Sometimes," she confided, "he bores me.

" "Tritogenia bores me sometimes," grumbled Latona's son.

The saccharine dainty is there found in the hollows of trees and under the bark, where what is known as the carpenter bee bores and deposits his extract from the buds and blossoms of the tropical forest.

See Shakspeare's Henry VIII, where the Duke of Buckingham says of Wolsey, "He bores me with some trick;" like another great man, the Cardinal must have been a great bore.

Everything bores you.

Motoring bores me terribly.

Well was it that two out of the three divisions were armed with Minies, for these created terrible havoc among the Russians, whose smooth-bores were no match for these newly-invented weapons.

The writer does not seem to be aware that the fools and bores of a book, while they bore the other characters, ought not to bore but to amuse the reader, and that they will become seriously wearisome to him if there be too much of them.

What was Cecil Grimshaw going to do in an atmosphere of titled bores, bishops, military men, and cautious statesmen?

" The plot of the Contrast is not, as the reader may perceive, one of fashionable life: it has more of the romance of nature in its composition: the characters are not the drawling bores that we find in fashionable novels, though their affected freaks are occasionally introduced to contrast with unsophisticated humility, and thus exhibit the deformities of high life.

But if he could not risewho can?to the apostolic virtue of suffering bores gladly, at any rate he endured their onslaughts as unflinchingly as he stood the gout.

It bores me to be here sitting on this seat, so far away from my little boy, watching his arms get tired from all that rowing.

The gossip of the drawing-room is merely inane, or else scandalous; but shift the scene to the theatre, and a story no longer bores; it is consecrated by the sacrament of interest.

"When the bird bores the holes and the sap oozes out, a great many insects gather to feed on ithornets, wasps, spiders, beetles, flies, and other kinds.

Do not affect any thing like a literary character, for scholars are reckoned bores.

"She must have been desperately annoyed with bores and boobies," he thought.

The joolryman he bores into it with a file and hands it back.

It bores him infinitely, though he does not say so.

For the most part, they were unintelligent, acquiescent fops, stupid bores who had tried the patience of their professors.

" "I thought it was only the bores who were ever bored," she said.

I wonder how many are comingworthy folks!" Which evidently meant insufferable bores.