Dulness

Examples

• What dulness may not red lips and sweet accents render pleasant? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They were high from the ground, and they burnt with the steady dulness of artificial light in air that is seldom renewed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• All work and no play, Mr Headstone, will not make dulness, in your case, I dare say; but it will make dyspepsia, if you don't take care. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This apparent dulness is, however, a quite common incident to youthful genius. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And she was forced to fly into lodgings of which the dulness and solitude were most wearisome to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Miss Osborne, George's aunt, was a faded old spinster, broken down by more than forty years of dulness and coarse usage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And after the boisterous dulness of the mess-table, the quarrels and scandal of the ladies of the regiment! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You would not bear the dulness of the life; you don't know what it is; it would eat you away like rust. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• How much of it was owing to the spell of the perfect afternoon, the scent of the fading woods, the thought of the dulness she had fled from? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Who has not seen a woman hide the dulness of a stupid husband, or coax the fury of a savage one? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There was a tranquil air in the town after the turbulence of the Channel and the beach, and its dulness in that comparison was agreeable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The great traveller became quite interested in sounding the immense vacuity of my dulness to its lowest depths. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There are always a good many houses to let in the street: it is a by-street too, and its dulness is soothing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It must be my own dulness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Eat not to dulness: drink not to elevation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• At first it was downright dulness to Emma. Jane Austen. Emma.

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