Bores
[bɔ:z]
Examples
- He made designs for firearms and experimented with guns to learn the carrying distance of various bores and balls. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- His maleness bores me. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He bores me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A customer wanted some special barrels with nine bores in a single piece of steel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are others beside the _Teniente-Coronel_ asleep in this Brigade Staff and thy emotion bores me. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Three-barrel guns were also made from one piece of steel, two bores for shot and the third rifled for a bullet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But my cousins are bores. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It rather bores him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I can give you a cup of tea in no time--and you won't meet any bores. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Besides, Carry is the only person who can keep Gus in a good humour when we have bores in the house. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He's a maudlin, twaddling, selfish fool, and bores everybody who comes near him about the state of his health. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It bores Granny to see the same people too often. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- So many people come up to town on a Monday--one is sure to meet a lot of bores. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But they are now usually called after the size of their bores, as 6-inch, 8-inch, or 12-inch cannon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He bores me, you know. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She's got a lot of bores coming--intellectual ones, I mean; that's her new line, you know, and I'm not sure it ain't worse than the music. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Oliver