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Was it asleep perhaps,
weary
from its workday, just riding with the waves?
Arms grew weary, hands were rubbed raw, but who cared about exhaustion, what difference were wounds?
She had suffered so much without complaint at first, until she had seem him going after all the village drabs, and until a score of bad houses sent him back to her at night, weary, stinking drunk.
Charles from time to time opened his eyes, his mind grew weary, and, sleep coming upon him, he soon fell into a doze wherein, his recent sensations blending with memories, he became conscious of a double self, at once student and married man, lying in his bed as but now, and crossing the operation theatre as of old.
At last she would close the lids of her
weary
eyes, and see in the darkness the gas jets flaring in the wind and the steps of carriages lowered with much noise before the peristyles of theatres.
Leon was
weary
of loving without any result; moreover he was beginning to feel that depression caused by the repetition of the same kind of life, when no interest inspires and no hope sustains it.
At last, bored and weary, Rodolphe took back the box to the cupboard, saying to himself, "What a lot of rubbish!"Which summed up his opinion; for pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall.
I
weary
you with my eternal complaints."
He had never met this grace of language, this reserve of clothing, these poses of the
weary
dove.
She was as sick of him as he was
weary
of her.
At last,
weary
of waiting, assailed by fears that she thrust from her, no longer conscious whether she had been here a century or a moment, she sat down in a corner, closed her eyes, and stopped her ears.
But soon the same look of
weary
lassitude came back to his face.
For her part, after this conversation, she was in the position of a man of feeling who,
weary
of life, has taken a dose of _stramonium_; he ceases to act, save, so to speak, automatically, and no longer takes an interest in anything.
The last days of paganism were accompanied by that state of uneasiness and doubt which, in the nineteenth century, is disturbing sad and
weary
minds.
May she not be a prude who has grown
weary
of her calling?'
Is she a prude,
weary
of her calling, and malicious because she is miserable?''Or rather,' said Altamira, emerging at last from his profound silence, 'can it be what I have said to you twenty times?
Three or four miles up stream is a trifle, early in the morning, but it is a
weary
pull at the end of a long day.
She had made one last appeal to friends, but, against the chill wall of their respectability, the voice of the erring outcast fell unheeded; and then she had gone to see her child - had held it in her arms and kissed it, in a weary, dull sort of way, and without betraying any particular emotion of any kind, and had left it, after putting into its hand a penny box of chocolate she had bought it, and afterwards, with her last few shillings, had taken a ticket and come down to Goring.
And the old river had taken her into its gentle arms, and had laid her
weary
head upon its bosom, and had hushed away the pain.
But the river - chill and weary, with the ceaseless rain-drops falling on its brown and sluggish waters, with a sound as of a woman, weeping low in some dark chamber; while the woods, all dark and silent, shrouded in their mists of vapour, stand like ghosts upon the margin; silent ghosts with eyes reproachful, like the ghosts of evil actions, like the ghosts of friends neglected - is a spirit-haunted water through the land of vain regrets.
"The excellent fellow is never
weary
of kind actions.
Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet,
weary
of captivity, sighing for change.
He surveyed the prize; walked around it; smelt at it from a safe distance; walked around it again; grew bolder, and took a closer smell; then lifted his lip and made a gingerly snatch at it, just missing it; made another, and another; began to enjoy the diversion; subsided to his stomach with the beetle between his paws, and continued his experiments; grew
weary
at last, and then indifferent and absent-minded.
The pipe dropped from the fingers of the Red-Handed, and he slept the sleep of the conscience-free and the
weary.
Huck waited what seemed a
weary
long time, but nothing happened.
The
weary
time dragged on; they slept again, and awoke famished and woe-stricken.
So he had only hacked that place in order to be doing something--in order to pass the
weary
time--in order to employ his tortured faculties.
It was nine miles as the crow flies, and eleven and a half by road, from Berwick to West Inch, and my heart grew heavy at the
weary
distance that separated me from my mother; for, mark you, a lad of that age pretends that he has no need of his mother's caresses, but ah, how sad he is when he is taken at his word!
I waited a
weary
while until the coughing and tossing had died away, and there was no sound of wakefulness from the long line of wooden cots; then I very softly rose, slipped on my clothes, took my shoes in my hand, and walked tiptoe to the window.
I was uneasy to be away from her, and yet when I was with her I was in a shiver all the time for fear my stumbling talk might
weary
her or give her offence.
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