The talk was growing a little tiresome to him.

The mother carries Ingrid back to her bed (it is a weary time now since those little feet touched the floor); but the bed is not as tiresome as usual, nor the washing as hard, for both hearts are full of sunshine.

Tacitus is more tiresome than Cicero.

A sentimental conscience is the most tiresome of all altruists, and wilfully to indulge in remorse that we have not justly incurred is to blunt our consciences for real offences.

What he means for his more elevated characters are tiresome with something of that melodramatic sentimentality with which Mr. Dickens has infected so much of the lighter literature of the day.

"That gets tiresome after a while.

'I know, Edith dear; but I'd marry any number of people to prevent anything tiresome for you.

Characters of folly or simplicity, such as those of old Woodhouse and Miss Bates, are ridiculous when first presented, but if too often brought forward or too long dwelt upon, their prosing is apt to become as tiresome in fiction as in real society.

But was it an evil ever so great, it could not be remedied, but by one much greater, which is, by living for ever; by which means, our wickedness, unrestrained by the prospect of a future state, would grow so insupportable, our sufferings so intolerable by perseverance, and our pleasures so tiresome by repetition, that no being in the universe could be so completely miserable, as a species of immortal men.

It was carefully and grammatically written; but it had not that exotic literary flavour which is so tiresome on a long railway journey.

What do you mean by reading anything so tiresome out of that foolish book?

The monotony of a sea voyage, with unscientific people, is tiresome beyond description.

"The journey," said Anthony, "is pretty tiresome through monotonous scenery like this.

Really, all womeneven motherswere tiresome at times with their questions!

She was acquiring his mother's perverse habit of upsetting your engagements at the last moment; and lately she had been particularly tiresome about motoring.