57 Verbs to Use for the Word monotony

Always, I saw around me the breadth of that enormous plain; and, always, I searched for some new thing to break its monotony; but there was no changeonly loneliness, silence, and desert.

Brigades were on the move each day in country which was one continual rise and fall, with stony beds of wadis to check progress, without a tree to lend a few moments' grateful relief from a burning sun, and nothing but the rare sight of a squalid native hut to relieve the monotony of a sun-dried desolate land.

One morning at breakfast his tripe didn't suit him, and he immediately brained his wife and children and set the house on fire, varying the monotony of the scene by pitching his mother-in-law down the well, having previously, with great consideration, touched her heart with a cheese knife.

They give bills of fare for one week; bills of fare for each day in a month, to avoid too great monotony in diet.

It was like being shut down behind bars of iron with occasional glimpses of hell to enliven the monotony.

With only one mail a month to disturb the monotony, and but trifling interest in anything north of the equator except prices of their commodities, these unrepressed rebels against the conventions and even the laws of the Occident must have their fling.

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Lister admitted that he had not long felt the monotony.

One sees but a few scattered trees, and several small woods, all the rest is clear and bearno hedge-fences even to interrupt the dull monotony of the scene below.

When by chance he absented himself for a few hours from Fontainebleau, in order to exchange the monotony of that palace for the dissipation of the capital, the King no sooner became aware of the fact than after having impatiently reiterated more than once, "Cinq-Mars!

Indeed, there were some who would gladly have prosecuted the whole journey with us, and escaped the monotony of their solitary, uneventful life.

" While O'Flynn howled with delight, the priest wound up: "Gentlemen, if we find monotony up here, it's not the country's fault, but a defect in our own civilisation."

It embraced all the imaginative, active, ambitious Tahitians, to whom it gave opportunities to display varied talents, to form close friendships, to rise in rank, to meet on evener terms those more aristocratic in degree, and, above all, to change the monotony of their existence by eating, drinking, and being merry in company, and all at the expense of the other fellow.

Since Lady Maulevrier had been lying upstairsthe voice which had once ruled over the house muffled almost to dumbnessthe monotony of life at Fellside had seemed all the more oppressive.

What monotony, what emptiness!

Friends think of me as not living, but simply existing, and marvel that I can endure such monotony.

My pleasure in stirring things with a ladle nearly decided me to train as a Bean Boiler; but I fear the monotony.

He would not tell how that same delicate and brilliant atmosphere freshened up the pale olive till the olive forgot its monotony, and its cheek glowed like the arbutus or the beech of the Umbrian hills.

That gray monotony of sea is not at all homelike, being as yet new and not used to the procession of keels.

I couldn't go on forever hating monotony so much.

But Rudolph, sitting in the mud, felt only that his eyes were dry and leaden in their sockets, that there was a drumming in his ears, and that if heat and weariness thus made an end of him, he need no longer watch the oppressive multitude of stars, or hear the monotony of flowing water.

She was full of schemes for the widow and children; she was melted with heart-felt grief for them; but I perceived that she was in no way dejected by the experience; it called all her powers, even the power of bearing grief, into play; and the draining of the bitter cup was more congenial to her than inactive monotony.

Not only women, but also children are enabled, owing to the nature of recent mechanical inventions which relieve the physical strain, but increase the monotony of labour, to make themselves useful in factories or home-work.

I have proposed omitting twenty-four lines; I feel that thus compressed it would gain energy, but think it most likely you will not agree with me; for who shall go about to bring opinions to the bed of Procrustes, and introduce among the sons of men a monotony of identical feelings?

The classic mannernow more that of Thomson than of Popepersisted till it overlapped romanticism; Cowper and Crabbe each owe a doubtful allegiance, leaning by their formal metre and level monotony of thought to the one and by their realism to the other.

57 Verbs to Use for the Word  monotony