I'm sorry; there's nothing so tedious to other people.

The Congress room was very hot (all the colleagues seemed to have a holy horror of open windows)and some of the men very long and tedious in stating their cases.

" Nothing is more tedious than publick records, when they relate to affairs which, by distance of time or place, lose their power to interest the reader.

It would be a great check on hospitality; for, by parity of reason, the invitation should be as tedious as the reply, and a treaty of dinner would take nearly as much time as a treaty of peace.

And then, as though he had suddenly detected in my face an expression of surprised discovery, he said, "But I am sure I do not know how I came to say so much, or let myself be tedious with sickly egotisms to a polite, but indifferent, stranger.

Tedious beyond imagination!

" "It must be mighty tedious for you, I'm afraid; though Billy's sure to come back soon," said Nick.

But they were both too limited in their field, too much concerned with sexual relations, that most tedious of topics (in literature, not life), the very thought of which made one yawn.

To enumerate his successes, would be as impossible, on account of their vast number, as it would be tedious on account of their similarity to each other.

We made but slow progress during the night, and felt delay the more tedious from the eager anxiety with which we desired sight of the land where our duties were to begin in earnest.

A list of characters, it is true, may also affect one with acute anticipations of boredom; but I have never yet found a play less tedious by reason of the suppression of the "Dramatis Personae.

Mr. Samuel Adams travels with me; indeed, the time seems tedious until get away.

Ladies, to tire the time in restless moan Were tedious unto friends and nature too.

Marcus Aurelius and Solomon, that had experience of all worldly delights and pleasure, confessed as much of themselves; what they most desired, was tedious at last, and that their lust could never be satisfied, all was vanity and affliction of mind.