Tiring
['taɪərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tire
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Examples
- Did you find the journey tiring? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Trudging round the country and tiring of myself out, I shall keep the deadness off, and get my own bread by my own labour. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Soon tiring of idleness and isolation he sent a cry from Macedonia to his old friend Milt Adams, who was in Boston, and whom he wished to rejoin if he could get work promptly in the East. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The donkey-boys were lively young Egyptian rascals who could follow a donkey and keep him in a canter half a day without tiring. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was six feet tall, fond of shooting and hunting, and able to ride seventy-five or eighty miles without tiring. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She might talk to him of the old spot, and never fear tiring him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- For a long time this amused him, but finally tiring he continued his explorations. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- If you're not tired, Mr. Pip--though I know it's tiring to strangers--will you tip him one more? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have had a tiring day, and I'll go to bed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now that I'm alone--with even Johnny gone--I'd far sooner be upon my feet and tiring of myself out, than a sitting folding and folding by the fire. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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