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.
It gave her no pleasure to outdo other women; she didn't want their tiresome men.
This wasn't a private house; she was in no way tangled up in duties towards a tiresome hostess.
It would be too tiresome if she wouldn't, and wanted not only to have them and her sitting-room but to establish herself in this garden as well.
She could as soon imagine a dove having tiresome habits as Mrs.
And the one who admired her—it would be tiresome if she dogged her about in order to look at her.
And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.
My books, which only a moment before I thought so tiresome, so heavy to carry—my grammar, my sacred history—seemed to me now like old friends, from whom I should be terribly grieved to part.
It is tiresome to have so many festivals -- Father's Day, Mother's Day, Singles' Day, Silent Night.
You might find it superfluous or tiresome when friends share their times for their latest mile run on social media.
Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome!
" But all the time Drinian was steadily steering to the starboard, like tiresome people in cars who continue at forty miles an hour while you are explaining to them that they are on the wrong road.
