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The device was merely interesting, beguiling the tedium of the sanctuary, and affording meditation on the ingenuity of mothers.
The narrative is prosaic and somewhat dull, but the tedium is relieved by vivid descriptions and really eloquent speeches.
Our climb-in, climb-out auto tedium was beguiled ever and anon by the appearance of a village, each one a scene of quaint simplicity.
On the contrary, there are many things besides the mutual amiability of these beautiful martyrs which relieve its tedium and horrors.
The French genius for music, for theatricals, and for literature relieved them from the tedium that characterized most co-operative colonies.
The wild ones, in a like predicament, relieve their tedium by whacking away at our ribs with bows that amount to something.
Occasional skirmishes took place at the outposts along the river, which served to interrupt in a measure the tedium of camp routine.
A group of tourists seeking adventures on the Continent agree to beguile the tedium of the journey by telling each other tales.
All the rest hardly listen when they are spoken about, and think the subjects under discussion are tedium and mediocrity.
Lincoln enlivened the way with anecdote and recital, for few indeed were the incidents that relieved the tedium of the trip.
Several of the studies they passed were in darkness, their doors ajar, their owners released from the tedium of nightly toil.
He had trodden all the main-traveled thoroughfares and many of the side roads that are supposed to relieve the tedium of life.
Her face was lit up with joy, as expressive and animated as the tedium and thoughtfulness which marked it had been profound.
A game started with crowns to while away the tedium of the enforced sojourn at the inn had grown to monstrous proportions.
Some men of the paroled camp, to vary the tedium of their life, began to trespass upon private property in the neighborhood.
The Captain sought to beguile the tedium of his existence by managing the household and the pecuniary affairs of Lady Hester.
Perhaps her fitful efforts to advance were more frequent; but after each effort she used invariably to relapse into idleness and tedium.
He longed for his arrival and the council of war that must ensue; longed to be relieved of the tedium of room-tied waiting.
Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.
Tedium and monotony have a tendency to bring out the less amiable characteristics of passengers who are thus crowded together under peculiar circumstances.
The tedium of succeeding miles of this weird wilderness was beguiled by the stories, gentle warnings and encouragement from my mother.
Willingly would I relieve the intolerable tedium of this dry inquiry by transcribing the few lines of his now beneath my eye.
Books and prints were also provided, to beguile the tedium of our inevitable seclusion, and pleasant companionship promised a still greater resource against ennui.
Fortunately the scenes were numerous and brief, but we still suffered considerable tedium from the affected and drawling delivery of the heroine.
The ingenious advocate contrives to interrupt the tedium by jests, and the public shows its delight in his jokes by immoderate laughter.
He whiled away the tedium of imprisonment by decorating the walls with designs, executed with a nail, and there they still remain.
Max has endeavored to relieve the tedium, and get up an interest of some sort, by renewing his attempts against the great eel.
When he returned, five minutes later, he sat down at his desk and, crossing his legs, prepared to beguile the tedium of waiting.
There are innumerable games and pastimes around the fire, where the wildest merriment drives away the tedium of the long wintry night.
After parodying annoyance at the lens, he dutifully replaced the chest and palm clamps and settled down to the tedium of patrol.
If he could find something else besides clams and biscuit, the tedium of his existence here would be alleviated to a still greater degree.
The woman sailed, a little breathlessly, to a table next to Gerald's, and took possession of it with an air of use, almost of tedium.
It was so at any rate with me, and instead of the Cathedral services being of incomparable tedium, they became exciting and exalting.
Are you a self-satisfied rich man who wants to enjoy our wretchedness, to get rid of his tedium, and to torment us still more?
For such a person, who only looks to have the tedium of a vacuous mind relieved, these tales are not in the least intended.
His especial service was thus to instruct us about English society, without tedium, within a domain which was voluntarily selected for his own.
When Daniel played the old chorals, Dorothea listened quietly, though it could not be said that she was perfect at concealing her tedium.
Waiting is often dull work, and Gypsy had considered herself a public benefactor in seeking to enliven the tedium of her form mates.
They make the most pleasant travelling companions and at times are the cause of many amusing incidents which beguile the tedium of the journey.
The ultimate states of happiness are ceaselessly undergoing the most delightful renovations, without which, indeed, no finite being could endure the tedium of eternity.
They would be sitting very close together, and behaving... well, as men and maidens sometimes do, to beguile the tedium of voyages at sea.
Novel readers will find it an amusing companion for a rainy day in the country, or for beguiling the tedium of a summer journey.
He brought back, as booty from his expeditions, romances written at sea to beguile the tedium of the passage and the anxieties of the tempest.
Nicholas relieved the tedium of the way with the most racy and delightful stories, and then all went on in the utmost harmony.
The gentleman addressed had performed his duty by sitting on a fence and "righting up" his pockets, to beguile the tedium of his exile.
His incognito should be preserved rigidly; and perhaps a few fresh faces would serve to lighten the tedium of his stay in our midst.
Even this palled on us after a time, and one of the boys, in order to relieve the tedium of the delay, proposed a horse race.
A proper mixture of both forms a more infallible specific against tedium and fatigue, than a constant regimen of the most pleasant of the two.
The worthy adventurer was most attentive to the sick man, carefully watching over him, and trying to while away the tedium of the journey.
From time to time the tedium was dispelled by varied incidents; many that were entertaining and instructive, some ludicrous, some pathetic, and others profoundly tragic.
It was all a farce, of course, but underneath the fantastic affectation there was a very real sentiment, that of the intolerable tedium of captivity.
It broke the tedium of their existence and with it would come a change of staff, the unloading of supplies and the news from home.
In the meanwhile, Patsy and her mother devoted themselves wholly to ministering to his wants and ameliorating the tedium of his confinement to the house.
Indeed, what I had formerly looked upon as irksome ceremony, now became an agreeable pastime, and helped greatly to soften the tedium of my melancholy life.
It was through this fatal paradox in the nature of things that all these modern adventurers come at last to a sort of tedium and acquiescence.
Robinson Crusoe is a shipwrecked sailor, who leads a solitary life for many years on a desert island, and relieves the tedium of life by ingenious contrivances.
Not just to break the tedium of the afternoon, either; not even exclusively for the vast exhilaration of sailing, though undoubtedly she thrilled to that.
He had shot the partridges and made love to the young lady, taking those little recreations as compensation for the tedium of the squire's society.
What was once undertaken must be finished, even if the inconvenience, tedium, vexation, nay, uselessness of the thing begun were plainly manifested in the meantime.
And a great relief it is, let me tell you, to the tedium of public business, to recount, criticize, and dramatize them, the moment he's off.
He has accordingly produced a volume which may either be read consecutively or dipped into at random with the certainty of entertainment and without risk of tedium.
The ten days of enforced companionship would at all events be relieved of tedium, but he was in a quandary as to what should be his attitude.
What happened to the old pedestrian emigrants, what was the tedium suffered by the Indians and trappers of our youth, the imagination trembles to conceive.
They beguiled the tedium of the way by making personal remarks which must have been distinctly audible to at least one person in the fly in front.
More than once have I beguiled the tedium of some uninteresting part of the journey by racing with some trifling object hurried along on its rippling surface.
He accordingly filled the vessel with quadrupeds, and the second day after landing he diverted the tedium of a foreign clime with a gentle ride.
To beguile the tedium and monotony of constant voyaging, "The Crew" is wont to exercise his mind by conversation with such passengers as there may be.
Why should you deny them this opportunity of indulging their twofold organisms, and beguiling the tedium of the voyage, merely because of some erroneous exhibition of fact?
A long fanfare of trumpets, a roll of drums, a stirring march of warlike melody, startled them out of the lethargic tedium of exhausted hopes and fears.
It will be a pleasant way of beguiling the tedium of some long day in her convalescence to bring forth and arrange them in their accustomed places.
The front benches are occupied by Rustic Youths, who beguile the tedium of waiting by smoking short clays, and trying to pull off one another's caps.
His very appearance on the cliff, and the power of thinking of him when he was gone, for a while banished all tedium from her life.
For a few days he was left unmolested to the tedium of prison life, and he began with renewed zest to formulate plans for his escape.
With that idea in my mind, the mere rustling of her dress causes me a pleasant sensation, and it helps me to forget the tedium of the journey.
The tedium was relieved by the occasional breaking of the harness and the frequent necessity of dismounting to walk up the hill when the horse balked.
Especially he noticed that impetuous mouth, which might betray weakness or instability or reckless bravado, but which could never, he was sure, be associated with tedium.
It was a habit that had grown on him of late, for it was wonderful how it shortened the hours, and relieved the tedium of his guard.
Professor Hughes was confined to his chamber by an attack of cold, and to beguile the tedium of the time, he began to experiment with the telephone.
One day the Count asked Bach to write for Goldberg some Clavier music of a soothing and cheerful character, that would relieve the tedium of sleepless nights.
The introduction of real personages and recent events relieves the tedium of long continued allegory, and stamps nature and individuality on adventures in themselves extravagant and apocryphal.
Quite content with this arrangement, Ben went home to dinner, which he made very lively by recounting Billy Barton's ingenious devices to beguile the tedium of sermon time.
This credulity, charming as it is and panacea for the physical tedium of the open road, is the faculty of which the pedestrian of to-day must strip himself.
Thus, in the dark, warm night the contents of his mind revolved endlessly, with extreme tedium and extreme distress, and each moment his mood became more morbid.
Nobody, unless a steamboat captain, who wants to ornament his berths, just that size, and relieve the tedium of his passengers, would ever think of buying them.'
And he permitted no pranks to enliven the tedium of work except the amusement he allowed himself of beating her at mealtimes after she had cooked his food.
One evening, which he resolved was to be the final one, while he was playing solitaire to pass the tedium of the vigil, he heard a noise in the wall.
A life that is humanly interesting is, short of the results of discipline, a life in which the tedium of vacant leisure is filled with images that excite and satisfy.
Hard and laborious as their toil is, they will now and then relax into pleasantry and relieve the tedium of work with a snatch of song and hilarity.
There was a long voyage before them, and each amiably undertook to relieve the tedium of the journey by the many pleasant devices indulged in by companionable travelers.
In her second year she becomes a favored guest in many country houses, where an effort is made to relieve the tedium of daily shooting parties by nightly frivolities.
Bibles, of which there were a few copies, were read by men who probably never read them before, to while away the tedium of the dreary days of winter.
The feeling of bodily and mental wretchedness was perpetual, while the tedium of life and occasional vague wishes that it might somehow come to an end were not infrequent.
He endured both tedium and bodily suffering with the fortitude of a saint and martyr; but next morning revealed him victim of a violent chill demanding medical aid.
These means of awakening interest, and relieving the tedium of the uninterrupted and monotonous study of text books, must not encroach on the regular duties of the school.
Whatever the object which gathers together a mob of the lowest class, they will soon begin to relieve the tedium of expectation by coarse jests, drunkenness, and brawling.
Another, perhaps, might have beguiled the tedium with drink, or cultivated what Balzac has called the gastronomy of the eye, and which consists in idling in the streets.
Few military men are studious, or inclined to reading, which is almost the only resource which is to be found against the tedium of long confinement and daily monotony.
Besides, their husbands had accustomed them to the use of coffee, the seaman's drink, and they tried to beguile their tedium with strong cups of the thick liquid.
Tobias was very urgent upon the poor creature to tell her story, to beguile the tedium of the time of waiting, and after some amount of persuasion she consented to do so.
Perhaps the family thought they had not done enough to relieve the tedium of Merle's banishment; at any rate they set to work and made great efforts to amuse her.