Bored

Examples

• Sooth to say, they cannot go away too fast, for even here my Lady Dedlock has been bored to death. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Perhaps I had better say, that you must submit to be mildly bored rather than to go on working. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The hole at the bottom of the lowest was covered with a small pot, into the sides of which had been bored a number of holes. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• But I sometimes think we've always bored her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I am happy--I am gratified--I am delighted--I am bored. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She smiled again as one might in bored indulgence of a questioning child. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• She smiles, looks very handsome, takes his arm, lounges with him for a quarter of a mile, is very much bored, and resumes her seat in the carriage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Do what he would, he fell into such a mood of abstraction that Gowan said again, 'I am very much afraid my mother has bored you? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am so _bored_ by hearing him called Aristides the Just. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The diamond teeth are the only parts which come in contact with the rock, and their hardness is such that an enormous length can be bored with but little appreciable wear. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• While the bed is still in this upright position, a one-inch slot is cut across where the foul line is to rest, and holes are bored through the bed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I, so soon bored, so constantly, so fatally? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Are you less frightfully likely to become bored, marrying for no money and no station? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My Lady Dedlock says she has been bored to death. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To the rest of the human scheme she submitted with a faint bored indifference. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• No, he must be bored by her--he never was by me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Sorry to keep you waiting, Mr. Holmes, I can see that you are bored to death with the whole affair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He never bored but he struck water. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These wells are drilled in the same way that wells are bored for oil and gas. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And who could consent to be bored on such a morning? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It was Ned Silverton's idea--but poor Dorset and Lily Bart must have been horribly bored. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He blinked forbearingly, with a male, bored expression, licking his whiskers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was a legitimate hero who bored every one he met. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He was not at all bored for the time, and could give his mind to it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I'm bored by the reSt.' 'Yes,' she murmured, nestling very sweet and close to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We bored a hole through the roof, and could see the men as they came in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The gimlet-pointed screw, which allows the screw to be turned into wood without having a hole bored for it, was an important advance in the art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You have no idea how the Genius of the country (overlook the Parliamentary nature of the phrase, and don't be bored by it) tends to being left alone. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I bored it well in. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Editor: Stephen