Weariness

Examples

• But the child, wholly exhausted, cried with weariness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Eustacia, didn't any tender thought of your own mother lead you to think of being gentle to mine at such a time of weariness? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I want to get away from here at almost any cost, she said with weariness, but I don't like to go with you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A terrible weariness overcame him, he felt he must lie on the floor. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Night fell upon us before we reached our goal, and, almost fainting from weariness and weakness, we lay down and slept. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Then she wiped her fingers across her brow, with a vague weariness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But she caused a constraint over Ursula's nature, a certain weariness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• To any thing, every thingto time, chance, circumstance, slow effects, sudden bursts, perseverance and weariness, health and sickness. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He was an added weariness upon her unripening nights, her unfruitful slumbers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was imputed to very reasonable weariness, and she was thanked and pitied; but she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would ever surmise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The Turkish dignitary yawns and expresses signs of weariness and idleness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I was overcome by weariness; the solitude depressed my spirits. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She rose, stretching her arms as if in utter physical weariness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Thus I felt, when disappointment, weariness, and solitude drove me back upon my heart, to gather thence the joy of which it had become barren. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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