The first Sunday was a tiresome ordeal for Anna, both at school and at chapel.
Of the eleven, some parents were rude to her; others begged, and she had nothing to give; others made perfunctory promises; only two seemed to regard her as anything but a somewhat tiresome impertinence.
It must be very tiresome if you don't.
' "Then she began to bother me, and I said I'd had enough plague with the tiresome thing; we each had our tasks, and hers was to wait on Linton: Mr.
The invalid complained of being covered with ashes; but he had a tiresome cough, and looked feverish and ill, so I did not rebuke his temper.
I could gather from her that he continued in weak health, and was a tiresome inmate.
" continued the tiresome girl, appealing to me.
"Come, missionary, clear up, and don't let me find such a glory-hole again, or I'll report you to the society," said Molly, tipping the whole drawer-full out upon the bed, and beguiling the tiresome job by keeping up the new play.
He could be quiet and listen when others talked, and so no one found him tiresome.
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
She has not had half enough boating because of these tiresome visits, and she likes it better than anything.
Rosamond, even without such an occasion as Captain Lydgate's visit, was fond of giving invitations, and Lydgate, though he often thought the guests tiresome, did not interfere.
You would use wrong words, and put words in the wrong places, and instead of making people understand you, they would turn away from you as a tiresome person.
Casaubon at once to teach her the languages, dreading of all things to be tiresome instead of helpful; but it was not entirely out of devotion to her future husband that she wished to know Latin and Greek.
I should have abandoned the facts and made her a nagging, tiresome woman, or else a bigoted one with no sympathy for the claims of the spirit.
When he found out what had really happened he was very angry indeed, and said, "Now this time that tiresome Toad shall be left behind!
The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all—it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.
'For six weeks, I allow Bath is pleasant enough; but beyond that, it is the most tiresome place in the world.
Perhaps she had better go back to Lotty and Rose; it would be tiresome to be discovered and hemmed into that cul-de-sac by Mr.
Fisher had feared, immediately repeated the tiresome formula and launched out into a long and excessively indelicate speech about the best place for the person she called Mellersh to sleep in.
