Monotonous

Examples

• One never tired of seeing her: she was never monotonous, or insipid, or colourless, or flat. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She was watching the fingers twitch across the eternal, mechanical, monotonous clock-face of time. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Show your father his daughter Bella's letter, Lavinia,' said Mrs Wilfer, in her monotonous Act of Parliament tone, and waving her hand. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Experience would cease to be an adventure in order to become the monotonous fulfilment of a perfect prophecy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The cases are more monotonous, and one has to go through more fuss and listen more deferentially to nonsense. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Even Stephen Blackpool's disappearance was falling into the general way, and becoming as monotonous a wonder as any piece of machinery in Coketown. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Then, pursued Richard, it's monotonous, and to-day is too like yesterday, and to-morrow is too like to-day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Towards midnight the teasing, monotonous bark of the house-dog disturbed the quietude of their vigil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He said, This thing is growing monotonous! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She closed her eyes, closed away the monotonous level of dead wonder, and opened them again to the every-day world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Greek dances are rather monotonous, I am afraid, said Roylands, who found this incessant swaying a trifle wearisome. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• And do you like that monotonous theme? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I form no expectation of alteration for the better; but the monotonous present is intolerable to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• After having established themselves in camp the natives take up their monotonous round, which is followed day after day as long as the rubber trees continue to yield their valuable sap. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was a monotonous, yet ever-changing scene. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• If I fell on the same side always, it would get to be monotonous after a while. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To him life was never monotonous or stale. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• To lead a life as monotonous as mine has been during many years, is not the way to forget. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But soon this running of the horse became monotonous, and after a while all fears of graveyards absolutely disappeared from my system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Butchered to make a Roman holyday has grown monotonous to me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Just as the sisters arrived here, a monotonous boy in a Scotch cap put his head round a beam on the left, and said, 'Less noise there, ladies! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The trees in no two avenues are shaped alike, and consequently the eye is not fatigued with anything in the nature of monotonous uniformity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There seems to be nothing there but languid and monotonous smoke. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Oh, my night could not be called monotonous, said he, and laughed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The host allowed to Monsieur that it was a little monotonous. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Margaret yearned after that old house, and the placid tranquillity of that old well-ordered, monotonous life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself a monotonous occupation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• These fields were level and monotonous. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But it truly is monotonous and uninviting, and there is no sufficient reason for describing it as being otherwise. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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