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Sentences starting with dull

Dull revolver shots--hoarse yells--pound of hoofs--shrill neighs of horses--commingling of echoes--and again silence! [13]
Dull faces here, there,--in how many places! [6]
Dull and dead the gods' bright nectar, Disencrowned of its foam; Duller, deader far the empty, Barren hearthstone of a home. [11]

Sentences ending with dull

The streets were very clean, very sunny, very empty, and very dull. [12]
To be sure, times were more than dull. [9]
It was so stupid and tiresome and dull! [5]
Perhaps it's the strike that makes it dull. [8]
Notwithstanding this, Mr. Stanhope King could not say the day was dull. [4]
I was not sorry, for war talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull. [5]
The Marches talked of these and other facts of their appearance, and curiously questioned whether this were the best that a great material civilization could come to; it looked a little dull. [8]
Do you know, Mr. Henderson, I think you are dull. [4]
I warn you it will be dull. [4]
For all this, home-coming, after the first excitement of arrival is over, is apt to be dull. [4]

Short sentences using dull

It was dull without him. [5]
Ho, how dull was it! [11]
The dull hours drifted on. [5]
Four more dull days followed. [5]
Family motto: "Don't be dull. [4]
It's deadly dull at times! [11]
And so dull! [11]

Sentences containing dull two or more times

Even Tetzel's dull face was less dull than its wont, and Ursula's eyes sparkled as though her knight had carried off the prize. [10]

More example sentences with the word dull in them

But I, I--If you--" At the same he threw up his hands and gave a dull, painful cry. [10]
I did as you ordered: I placed two texts before my eyes--one a dull one and barren of interest, the other one full of interest, inflamed with it, white-hot with it. [5]
Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water. [12]
How dull we writers, famous or obscure, are in the acquisition of knowledge as compared with them! [6]
As the patient would be confined for a good while, he might find it dull work to sit with his hands in his lap. [6]
Of course it would be a dull world if we could not criticise our friends, but the most unprofitable and unsatisfactory criticism is that by comparison. [4]
Pausing from his work, he leant on his spade, and put his hand to his dull ear. [12]
A sensation (the word you see is material and inappropriate) of etherealization and imponderability pervaded me, and I was not sorry to get rid of such a dull, slow mass as I now perceived myself to be, lying there on the bed. [4]
Then he added, with some grim humour, that if Druce had no objection to spending an hour with Roadmaster over a fire and a billy of tea, he would be glad of his company; for bushranging, according to his system, was but dull work. [11]
And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count who will not refuse to accompany you. [2]
His blue eyes, which usually sparkled so brightly, now looked dull and bleared, and there were white spots on his copper-coloured cheeks. [10]
We know now what War means, and we cannot look its dull, dead ghastliness in the face unless we feel that there is some great and noble principle behind it. [6]
He was experiencing what one or another drowsing, geographically ignorant alien experiences every day in the year when he turns a dull and indifferent eye out of the car window and it falls upon a certain station-sign which reads "Stratford-on-Avon! [5]
I realized, then, what a creepy, dull, inanimate horror this land had been to me all these years, and how I had been in such a stifled condition of mind as to have grown used to it almost beyond the power to notice it. [5]
The rolling wheels were noiseless, and the sharp ring and clatter of the horses' hoofs, became a dull, muffled tramp. [12]
The Masonic dinners were dull and dreary when he was not there. [2]
And then she went to her ma and said she didn't know what would become of her uncle Sam he was too dull to learn anything--ever! [5]
The dull work went tediously on. [5]
It is all well while it burns and scintillates in your emotional centres, without articulate and connected expression; but the minute you plunge it into the rhyme-trough it cools down, and becomes as dead and dull as the cold horse-shoe. [6]
The dull speaker wearies it and sends it far away in idle dreams; the bright speaker throws out stimulating ideas which it goes chasing after and is at once unconscious of him and his talk. [5]
But the point we wish to make is that neither society nor the law makes any allowance for the aberrations of human nature caused by dull and unpleasant weather. [4]
Even Diodoros, who was not generally given to silent meditation, had his own thoughts to pursue; and so they walked on in silence till suddenly they heard a dull murmur of voices. [10]
The lawn party was not at all dull to Margaret. [4]
And if it was dark and rather dull, we used to say, what did it matter to us, for it only made us remember our last walk with greater pleasure, and look forward to our next one. [12]
Ten steps away was a little wickiup, a dim and formless shelter of rags and old horse-blankets, a dull light showing through its chinks. [5]
Mention of the war will wake up a dull company and set their tongues going, when nearly any other topic would fail. [5]
It was in vain that I whipped my dull senses; but one conclusion was indicated by all this inference, and I don't care even to mention that: it was preposterous. [9]
As he advanced up the mid-aisle the interest was so intense that the low murmur of conversation in the great assemblage died out and was succeeded by a profound hush, a breathless stillness, through which his footfalls pulsed with a dull and distant sound. [5]
No more taking up of dull earths, and turning them, first into clear solutions, and then into lustrous prisms! [6]
So we set up a long time, and smoked and talked in a low voice, and felt pretty dull and down-hearted. [5]
Sick of my unwalled, solitary realm, I ask to change the myriad lifeless worlds I visit as mine own for one poor patch Of this dull spheroid and a little breath To shape in word or deed to serve my kind. [6]
Now single shrill trumpet notes echoed from afar amid the trombones and the dull roll of the drums, the noise increasing every moment. [10]
On the dull, torpid faces, light seemed struggling to live for a moment, as David talked. [11]
Perhaps Tinoir was too dull to see that he was giving all and getting naught; that while he waited and watched he was always poor, and also was getting old. [11]
It is nothing to us that they have been sharpened a thousand times before; they always get dull in the using, and every new workman has a right to carry them to the grindstone and sharpen them to suit himself. [3]
She listened breathlessly to the sounds from the city, and now a distant blare of trumpets drowned the dull roar of the ordnance and the sharp rattle of the culverins. [10]
Prince Bagration turned to the officer and with his dull eyes looked at him in silence. [2]
She had wept to see him dull and quiet. [12]
I fell asleep to pleasant music that night--the patter of rain upon the panes and the dull growling of distant thunder. [5]
Vulgar chess-players have to play their game out; nothing short of the brutality of an actual checkmate satisfies their dull apprehensions. [6]
The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning. [12]
And each said to himself, "He never delivered that letter, and the joke is on us, if he only knew it or we were dull enough to come out and tell. [5]
But it seemed to her that life must be dull in any of them, and with that idea in her head her dreaming fancy had drawn these pictures. [6]
Time itself seemed to have grown dull and old, as if no day were ever to displace the melancholy night. [12]
It scared me to death, the idea of this fool starting a smelting furnace in his house without knowing it, and getting his dull eyes opened. [5]
We may happen to be very dull folks, you and I, and probably are, unless there is some particular reason to suppose the contrary. [6]
Nine couches, arranged three and three in a horseshoe, invited the guests to repose, with their arms of ebony and cushions of dull olive-green brocade, on which a delicate pattern of gold and silver seemed just to have been breathed. [10]
The coming storm threatening more and more, with now and then a little shiver of wind, a faint show of lightning, and dull grumblings of distant thunder. [5]
He told her this with frank affection, and represented to her how much better suited she was to Brussels than to her stately but dull and quiet Ratisbon. [10]
But I have this consolation: that dull as I was, I always knew enough to be proud when she commended me or my work --as proud as if Livy had done it herself--and I took it as the accolade from the hand of genius. [5]
In dull seasons they are too large; in times of brisk advertising, and in the sudden access of important news, they are too small. [4]
As she stood there, with this tragedy enveloping her, the dull boom of a cannon came across the valley. [11]
It was dull there, and melancholy--nothing to do but look out of the window into the drenching rain, and shiver; one could do that, for it was bleak and cold and windy, and country France furnishes no fire. [5]
It struck him there was a dull fire in his heart a great deal like it; and he worked out a fanciful analogy with the coals, still alive, and the ashes creeping over them, and the dead clay and cinders. [8]
All this time there had been a muffled hum of conversation, and rustling of robes and scraping of feet on the floor, a combination of dull noises which filled all the place. [5]
Every now and then a man who may be dull enough prevailingly has a passion of talk come over him which makes him eloquent and silences the rest. [6]
No doubt if their colours had been brilliant, they would have been much more conspicuous to their enemies; but whether their dull tints have been specially gained for the sake of protection seems, as far as I can judge, rather doubtful. [1]
The mother of the youth that had been killed still sat huddled at the foot of the statue of justice, enduring the anguish of listening to these drunken revels with dull resignation. [10]
There are in the woods occasional moanings, premonitions of change, which are inaudible to the dull ears of men, but which, I have no doubt, the forest-folk hear and understand. [4]
But that is the way things always go; if you force a sale on a dull market, I don't care what the property is, you are going to make a poor business of it, and you can make up your mind to it. [5]
I have withdrawn the Sandwich Island book--it would be useless to publish it in these dull publishing times. [5]
Then one of the runaways knocked down Papias, and she could bear no more; her senses deserted her, her knees failed under her, she lost consciousness, and with a dull groan she fell on the dusty pavement. [10]
Let us suppose the real John to be old, dull, and ill-looking. [6]
When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole came to the conclusion that he would not find Bald Hills dull either. [2]
I went to the place with the owners, and found a shaft six or eight feet deep, in the bottom of which was a badly shattered vein of dull, yellowish, unpromising rock. [5]
And it being the middle of the dull season, when the quality were at their seats, and the dinner-hour besides, the town might have been a deserted one for its stillness, as tho' the inhabitants had walked out of it, and left it so. [9]
I cannot speak the language; I am too old not to learn how, also too busy when I am busy, and too indolent when I am not; wherefore some will imagine that I am having a dull time of it. [5]
By and by the I dull report came, and he was about to walk back mechanically and see what was accomplished; but he halted; presently turned on his heel and thought, rather than said: "No, this is useless, this is absurd. [5]
In place of the former close dark circles formed by thousands of bees sitting back to back and guarding the high mystery of generation, he sees hundreds of dull, listless, and sleepy shells of bees. [2]
By and by the earth was a ball--just a round ball, of a dull color, with shiny stripes wriggling and winding around over it, which was rivers. [5]
He cried with the dull, toneless voice of one talking in his sleep, as if he saw her close by: "Away, mother, I say! [10]
During the night the dull indifference which she showed in the day abandoned her, and her attentive companion often heard her sobbing aloud. [10]
He remembered only the dull gray weather now rainy and now snowy, internal physical distress, and pains in his feet and side. [2]
Do you remember the dull dreamer whom we left ere he set forth for Paraetonium? [10]
I am in the condition of a carpenter who is required to build a bridge with a dull axe, a broken saw, and rotten timber. [7]
Rowena was in the clouds, she walked on air; this was to be the greatest day, the most romantic episode in the colorless history of that dull country town. [5]
But what was that, so often added, which wrung his heart, and made him sob and weep alone, in some dull corner! [12]
I did know that Susy was part of us; I did not know that she could go away; I did not know that she could go away, and take our lives with her, yet leave our dull bodies behind. [5]
They join at that point--the pale blue Jumna, apparently clean and clear, and the muddy Ganges, dull yellow and not clean. [5]
You could always tell when something had gone wrong with Ibrahim the Orderly, by that curious dull glare in his eyes. [11]
Mr. Peters, and talked with him a great deal: told him yarns, gave him toothsome scraps of personal history, and wove a glittering streak of profanity through his garrulous fabric that was refreshing to a spirit weary of the dull neutralities of undecorated speech. [5]
The river went swishing, swilling past, and the dull boom of the logs as they struck the piers of the bridge or some building on the shore came rolling to them. [11]
The old dull sun must set, to rise again with greater glory. [10]
It would be such a dull, colorless world without it! [4]
Finally a spade struck upon the coffin with a dull woody accent, and within another minute or two the men had hoisted it out on the ground. [5]
The snow was still dazzling, though it no longer sparkled and glittered, but covered every object with the dull whiteness of chalk. [10]
Only a few stanch trumpeters had remained in their places; and when they saw by the lanterns that Caesar had left the Circus, they sounded a fanfare after him, which followed the ruler of the world with a dull, hoarse echo. [10]
In manner and speech though I was somewhat dull, my fellows thought, I was enough like a peasant soldier to deceive them, and my French was more fluent than their own. [11]
I have sometimes speculated whether the prevailing dull tints of the scenery in the above named countries may not have affected the appreciation of bright colours by the birds inhabiting them. [1]
So the wide space, dim with smoke, was illumined only by a dull, varying glimmer. [10]
Suddenly the strange sound of a far-off whistling and thud was heard, followed by a boom of cannon blending into a dull roar that set the windows rattling. [2]
Nought, indeed, but some great matter could have roused me from that dull half-sleep; nor was it long in coming, by reason that my brother Herdegen's safety and life were in peril. [10]
But the gracious solace of tears seemed to be denied her, and her grief, like her anger, was a dull ache, longing, like that, to finish itself with a fierce paroxysm, but wanting its natural outlet. [6]
I care not so much about the treasure, but I pray you humble those dull Puritans, who turn buccaneers in the name of the Lord. [11]
But it is so hard to resist the temptation, notwithstanding that the terrible line beginning "Superfluous lags the veteran" is always repeating itself in his dull ear! [6]
Short-necked, thick-waisted, round-cheeked, smooth, vacant forehead, large, dull eyes. [6]
Out of so small a circle of characters, dwelling in so dull and monotonous an area as a "pension," this wonderful tale was evolved! [14]
The steep verdant slope, whose base is at the water's edge is topped by a lofty rampart of broken, turreted rocks, which are exquisitely rich and mellow in color--mainly dark browns and dull greens, but splashed with other tints. [5]
It was a sleepy, dull Sunday afternoon, and no one was stirring. [5]
Wounded pride was silent, he forgot the insult he had sustained, and cried in a voice as loud, as if he wished every word to reach the ear now growing dull in death: "I thank you for your aid, man. [10]

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