But the person whose kind offices and friendly sympathy did far more than those of any other to relieve the tediousness of my confinement, and to keep my heart from sinking, was Mr. Wood.

My lord, if I should bring before your honour all my friends, ready to importune you in my behalf, I should have so many rhetoricians, logicians, lawyers, and (which is more) so many women, to attend me, that this grove would hardly contain the company; wherefore, to avoid the tediousness, I will lay the whole cause upon the tip of mine own tongue.

I had no great inclination to this study, but an appearance of attention was necessary to please my instructer, who valued himself for his skill; and, in a little while, I found some employment requisite to beguile the tediousness of time, which was to be passed always amidst the same objects.

A king, whose power is unlimited, and whose treasures surmount all real and imaginary wants, is compelled to solace, by the erection of a pyramid, the satiety of dominion and tastelessness of pleasures, and to amuse the tediousness of declining life, by seeing thousands labouring without end, and one stone, for no purpose, laid upon another.

I am forced upon a thousand shifts to enable me to endure the tediousness of the day.

Whether it may be greater literature is another matter; if it escapes tediousness it may impress by its weight.

Having his mind completely busied between his warehouse and the 'Change, he felt no tediousness of life, nor any want of domestick amusements.

Lengthy is used chiefly of discourses or writings, and implies tediousness.

I hope during the winter, if we have any, to send you many amusing books to shorten the tediousness of time, and charm away your indisposition.

Even killingexciting as an incidentbecomes monotonous when it is continued ad infinitum, and no other occurrence ever comes to vary its tediousness.

About the third day Byron relented from his rapt mood, as if he felt it was out of place, and became playful, and disposed to contribute his fair proportion to the general endeavour to wile away the tediousness of the dull voyage.

[All the selections following are from 'A Registre of Hystories'] OF CERTAIN NOTABLE MEN THAT MADE THEMSELVES PLAYFELLOWES WITH CHILDREN Hercules (as some say) assuaged the tediousness of his labors, which he sustayned in open and common games, with playing.

A man like Cicero was very good company, and somewhat of a lion besides; and country neighbours, wherever he set up his rest, insisted on bestowing their tediousness on him.

As Ethelyn's toilet had occupied some time, it was five when she made her appearance in the parlor, consequently she had not long to wait ere the announcement of supper broke up the tediousness she endured from that first call, or visit.