"I am very glad you have come, my dear niece," he said, "to relieve the tedium of our uneventful existence.

III When Plotinus's eyes were at length opened, they fell not this time upon the faithful Porphyry, but upon two youthful followers of Plato who were beguiling the tedium of their vigil at his bedside by a game of dice, which prevented their observing his resuscitation.

The employment was decidedly contrary to his taste, and to amuse his tedium he used often to sketch or read from his favorite poets.

She charmed the tedium of the voyage in hourly watching the progress which she believed visible in the feeble offset.

"Perhaps, however, that might be regarded as vaunting over your comrades, who, I've no doubt, relax the tedium of war in temperate indulgence of some of these vices.

To alleviate the tedium of the sitting, a Mlle.

And he encouraged the acquaintance the Boy had struck up with the Buckeyes, hoping against hope that to go over and smoke a pipe, and exchange experiences with such mighty good fellows would lighten the tedium of the long day spent looking for a job.

Now, retracing stage by stage the record of the day, Sofia became aware that its most poignant moment for her was actually the present, with its keen wonder that she had contrived to survive such exquisite tedium.

And, working single in their low-rooft cells, Oft cheat the tedium of a winter's night With anthems warbled in the Muses' spight.

She did not disguise from him the tedium of her existence.

The little Medici who endured the tedium of the services here are to be felicitated with upon such an adorable presentment of glory.

Accordingly I had the entrée of all the best houses, including the Golden House, and a very pleasant little society we had; occasional dances, frequent dinners, and plenty of lawn tennis and billiards prevented me feeling the tedium I had somewhat feared, and the young ladies of Whittingham did their best to solace my exile.

The conflicts in the school, if they gave me less tedium, were all the more acute.