He has only to yield to his wife's solicitations, which he does.Nor are we sure that he does it well: he is very tedious.He indulges in sermons which are good; but most men cannot but fear that so delightful a being as Eve must have found him tiresome.…Cited from Harvard Classics Volume 28, by Various
For there is no one now to lay a complaint before it.Therefore, if you are waiting for that, you will find it a tedious business.…Cited from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1, by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Some people are; and it does grow rather tedious in the long run.But perhaps what Jaqueline said may have made some impression on Ricardo, for he stuck to his books for weeks, and was got into decimal fractions and Euclid.…Cited from Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia, by Andrew Lang
At last we found a barn, but were so wet and chilly that we resolved to hunt on, in the hope of finding a fire and a bed.After a still more tedious search, we found the goal of our wishes.…Cited from Daring and Suffering, by William Pittenger
The evidence they heard was reported in great detail by Alberta's press, to the initial interest of the public.Before long, however, the details grew tedious, and the public became less engaged.The greatest surprise to emerge during the commission's inquiry did not come from one of the forty-six witnesses to testify, but from one who did not: A&GW President Clarke moved back to the United States, and did not return for his scheduled testimony.…
Our nationality, however, made not the slightest difference to them, and we were told we must encamp while our letters were taken to the sultan, who lives beyond Tamarida, and await his permission to proceed farther.The eight days we had to remain here were the most tedious of those we spent on the island.One of our amusements was to watch boat-building accomplished by tying a bundle of bamboos together at each end and pushing them out into shape with wooden stretchers.…Cited from Southern Arabia, by Theodore Bent and Mabel Bent
The walk from the house to the station had been a long and tedious one.The way back was surprisingly short, even though they walked at snail's pace.…Cited from The Daffodil Mystery, by Edgar Wallace
Clotilde was rapidly becoming consoled; and though she only spoke creole French, and Caesar only English, save for the few words he had picked up since coming to Paris, they seemed to make themselves very well understood.So the ride had not been so tedious as it might have been.…Cited from The Rose of Old St. Louis, by Mary Dillon
He has appeared many times since, always employed in a tedious job which he does not perform well.He is also seen to have a painting tattoed on his stomach (in "The Cryonic Woman") and comments that he is "on loan from the Louvre".…
Dodd paints a picture of a future New York as a dreary conformist society, in which the inhabitants live in identical homes and men and women dress alike.Though people work only two hours per day, they live tedious, vacuous lives.…
Years later, Whitman told Horace Traubel that "Drum-Taps" was "put together by fits and starts, on the field, in the hospitals as I worked with the soldier boys."How to go about getting this work published would prove to be a tedious affair.By June 23, of 1864, Whitman was on the verge of a mental breakdown and grew to be so terribly ill from all the work he had been doing in the hospitals that he was forced to retire to his home in Brooklyn.…
She wants to defend her friends by bringing him down and the only way she can accomplish her mission is to infiltrate Sarkmarr as Loxy.Her friends help and through tedious training, her application is accepted.But now she has to move up in the ranks, past the tiers to become a full-fledged Sarkmarr member, and that means passing all of the dangerous morphises that The Holder designs for her.…
These were tedious moments while we waited, but soon we moved on very slowly again.At the next station, Andrews borrowed a schedule from the tank-tender, telling him that he was running an express powder-train through to Beauregard.…Cited from Daring and Suffering, by William Pittenger
True, they seemed to interest the audience; here, though, they would be tedious reading.Likewise, in touching upon the opening and outlining address of Attorney-at-Law Sublette let us, for the sake of time and space, be very much briefer than Mr. Sublette was.…Cited from The Best Short Stories of 1917, ed. by Edward J. O'Brien
The curve geometry of cylinder in Cartesian coordinate system is approximated by using stepwise approximation.But this method requires large time and is very tedious to work with.…
It was a tedious process but all that was available at that time.
Writing out the full message at each step, as done in the example above, is very tedious.Efficient implementations use an n -bit shift register to hold only the interesting bits.…
Fortunately, the generalized canonical correlation analysis (gCCA) is the statistical method of choice for making those harmful cross-covariances vanish.This may, however, become quite tedious depending on the nature of the problem.The HWB method is a "must" in Satellite Geodesy and similar large problems.…
However, he found the duty tedious and returned to the practice of law at the end of his six year term.After several years of practicing law and assisting various Democratic candidates, O'Ferrall challenged John Paul for Virginia's 7th congressional district in 1883.…
Has the recitation period seemed short or has it been a long, tedious hour?Cited from A Guide to Methods and Observation in History, by Calvin Olin Davis
