Wearied

Examples

• The troubles she has had here have wearied her, said Lydgate, breaking off again, lest he should say too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was a comfort to Elizabeth to consider that Jane could not have been wearied by long expectations. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Whether Shirley had become wearied of her honoured relatives is not known. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Miss Woodhouse, we all know at times what it is to be wearied in spirits. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The poor unfortunate lady fell out of one fit into another, and went on so till she was quite wearied out, and as helpless as a new-born babe. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A year ago I was myself intensely miserable, because I thought I had made a mistake in entering the ministry: its uniform duties wearied me to death. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Through all these rapid visions, there ran an undefined, uneasy consciousness of pain, which wearied and tormented him incessantly. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They had talked and struggled till they were both wearied out. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It's getting on my nerves, this business, Mr. Holmes, said he, as he sank, like a wearied man, into an armchair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is the Elysian fields of foam where rest the spirits of wearied mariners. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• At any rate, they talked in desperate earnest,--not in the used-up style that wearied her so in the old London parties. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His mind glancing back to Laure while he looked at Rosamond, he said inwardly, Would _she_ kill me because I wearied her? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She had been so wearied out, before that, by the convulsions, that she never stirred hand or foot, or spoke a word to anybody. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You may well ask, why I have wearied you with all these details? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But it was excusable in him, that he should forget part of an order, in his present wearied condition. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She struggled and implored by turns until twelve o'clock had struck, and then, wearied and exhausted, ceased to contest the point any further. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Eva soon lay like a wearied dove in her father's arms; and he, bending over her, soothed her by every tender word he could think of. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But, as years went on, my dear boy would have wearied of his child-wife. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I wearied them with new applications. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She was exhausted, wearied. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I am getting rather wearied of such doubts. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She appeared to rest like one over-wearied, her beauteous eyes steeped in sweet slumber. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Editor: Michel