Tedious

Examples

• I am afraid you have had a tedious ride; John drives so slowly; you must be cold, come to the fire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It would be tedious to repeat his arguments, and my contradictions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Skirmishes of this sort passed perpetually during the little campaign--tedious to relate, and similar in result. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We had a tedious ride of about five hours, in the sun, across the Valley of Lebanon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This was very tedious and expensive work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With Johnston and him combined, a long, tedious, and expensive campaign, consuming most of the summer, might become necessary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Finally I said: It is a tedious process. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The work of preparation was tedious, because supplies, to load the wagons for the march, had to be brought from a long distance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their _acme_, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It has been the practice of recent writers to decry the philosophical discussion of the medi?val schoolmen as tedious and futile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She continued this as we wound our tedious way through the maze of subterranean passages and chambers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was a night's journey in those coach times, but we had the mail to ourselves and did not find the night very tedious. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is too tedious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Contrast with that the tedious unfolding of a rolled manuscript. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After reaching shore, or Shell Island, the labor of getting to Corpus Christi was slow and tedious. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The breakers were sometimes high, so that the landing was tedious. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Becky was very respectable and orderly at first, but the life of humdrum virtue grew utterly tedious to her before long. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• For him no method of copying was sufficiently tedious and no rare book sufficiently inaccessible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Ginevra was long in coming: tedious seemed her loitering. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Perhaps the less I say of these sick experiences, the less tedious and the more intelligible I shall be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But the Scythians had no cities, and they evaded a battle, and the war degenerated into a tedious and hopeless pursuit of more mobile enemies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After battling for many tedious minutes with the precipice, the same scene presented itself to me, which had wrapt him in extatic wonder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There were no means of carrying its results even to sympathetic men abroad except by tedious letter-writing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the process was a tedious and costly one and the articles produced were beyond the limits of the poor man's purse. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And in many offices the writing of names is still a slow, tedious, drudging task--as the workers in those offices will testify. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The transmission of geographical fact again must have been almost incredibly tedious. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not to be tedious, they had many other beliefs of a similar kind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The old methods were painfully slow and tedious. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His education would generally in this way be more effectual, and always less tedious and expensive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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