Use weariness in a sentence
Sentences starting with weariness
- Weariness will overtake it then. [5]
- Weariness had soon closed his eyes also, but only for a few hours. [10]
Sentences ending with weariness
- I have not written a single line, and have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness. [5]
- Once or twice, too, his eyes opened with a dumb hunted look, then closed as with an irresistible weariness. [11]
- I've tried, myself, to weariness. [5]
- Presently she began to unloose the coils of golden hair; but Jasmine stopped her with a gesture of weariness. [11]
- The priest obeyed this instinct, as if it were possible to walk away from himself, and went on, at first with almost no sense of weariness. [4]
- Not only is the illusion gone, but the movement of the story, if there is a story, is retarded, till the reader loses all enjoyment in impatience and weariness. [4]
- Now there was one indigent man who had been disappointed so often with other companies that he had grown disheartened, his appetite left him, he ceased to smile--said life was but a weariness. [5]
- Now there was one indigent man who had been disappointed so often with other companies that he had grown disheartened, his appetite left him, he ceased to smile--life was but a weariness. [5]
- As he went on, his mind in a whirl of humiliation, self-accusation, and contempt, at length he began to be conscious of physical weariness. [4]
- There were lines of irritation in his face and lines of weariness. [4]
More example sentences with the word weariness in them
- Musical it was, yet there seemed no pleasure in it: rather irony, and a great weariness of the amusements of this world: and a note, too, from a vanity never ruffled. [9]
- But everything is well, now--we are done with poverty, sad toil, weariness and heart-break; all the world is filled with sunshine. [5]
- She felt extreme weariness, yet somehow it did not seem to be of her body. [13]
- There is no weariness, no fatigue, no worry, no responsibility, no work, no depression of spirits. [5]
- No one showed weariness, and when the dawn broke slow and soft over the eastern hills, I motioned my good boatmen towards the shore, and landed safely. [11]
- His seemed the weariness of futility. [9]
- It was the weariness in his tone that piqued her now, the intimation that he did not believe in her sincerity--had not believed in it from the first. [9]
- All sense of weariness had been swept away by the invigorating refreshment of the great and hopeful discovery which he had made. [5]
- The curious thing was that he had the power, and save in moments of weariness he felt it in him. [9]
- After the toast was finished, with an emphasised assumption of weariness, and a hint of a long yarn on the morrow, he picked up his blanket and started for the room where all were to sleep. [11]
- His bright uniform was creased and soiled and muddy, his face unshaven, and dark rings of weariness under his eyes. [9]
- He was subject to the same weariness of the flesh and fatigue of the spirit as all men; yet it was expected of him that at any hour he should be at the disposal of suffering humanity--of criminal or idiotic humanity--patient, devoted, calm, nervestrung, complete. [11]
- He was inclined to take Miss Thorn's advice, for he made a gesture of weariness with his cigarette, in the use of which he was singularly eloquent. [9]
- She was able to shut the door there even against the solicitations of nature and against the weariness of it also. [4]
- To look upon this picture, and sail upon this sea, they had forsaken home and its idols and journeyed thousands and thousands of miles, in weariness and tribulation. [5]
- They were filled, these letters, with an elixir of which she drank thirstily to behold visions, and the weariness of her exile fell away. [9]
- What power was there in desert life that could make this poor camel-driver, at the end of a long day of weariness and toil and little food and drink, sing a song of content and cheerfulness? [11]
- These thoughts worked their dim way through Huck's mind, and under the weariness they gave him he fell asleep. [5]
- Their faces showed the weariness of labour and an ill-nourished daily life, but there was the same look in them as in Jasmine's. [11]
- Nobody knows what the weariness of instruction is, as soon as the teacher's faculties begin to be overtasked, but those who have tried it. [6]
- The splendours of the scene delighted his eye and fired his imagination at first, but the audience was long and dreary, and so were most of the addresses --wherefore, what began as a pleasure grew into weariness and home-sickness by-and-by. [5]
- It is mainly the repetition over and over again, by the third-rates, of worn and commonplace and juiceless forms that makes their novels such a weariness and vexation to us, I think. [5]
- Her books bore testimony to this; for there was a look of sadness in the faces she drew, and a sense of weariness and longing for some imaginary conditions of blessedness or other, which began to be painful. [6]
- His disguised weariness still exciting her sympathy, she offered him a chair. [11]
- Of all our social contrivances, the formal dinner is probably the cause of more anxiety in the arrangement, of more weariness in the performance, and usually of less satisfaction in the retrospect than any other social function. [4]
- And yet she showed no wear, no weariness, and but seldom let fly her temper. [5]
- And when the sense of physical weariness came back, that seemed to dull the acuteness of his spiritual torment. [4]
- It had been remarked that this personage evinced no weariness in his place of concealment; nor did he, long as his waiting was. [12]
- With the realization, reaction set in, an overpowering feeling of weariness, a desire--for rest--for sleep. [9]
- The scanty provisions ran out, hunger was added to the pangs of thirst and weariness, and here and there in the straggling file discontent smouldered and angry undertone was heard. [9]
- Many observers are puzzled by the gradual and insidious return recently to the mode of the Directoire, and can see in it no significance other than weariness of some other mode. [4]
- There is no pleasanter place in the North for a summer residence, but there is a certain element of monotony and weariness inseparable from an excursion: travelers have been known to yawn even on the Rhine. [4]
- Delightful repose stole over him, pleasant weariness soothed every stormy emotion of his heart. [10]
- I fell asleep once more from sheer weariness of joy. [9]
- This thin sort of talk was perhaps pardonable after the weariness of a sea voyage, but the Major promptly said it wouldn't do. [4]
- So, in spite of headache and weariness, they made haste to dress themselves in their plain high-made country garments. [14]
- But it was not these which held her, rather the intensity of his gaze, a strained weariness, a piercing wistfulness of keen, gray sight, as if the man was forever looking for that which he never found. [13]
- Often she would not cease her entreaties and representations, and when she even complained that she was dying of solitude and weariness, his veins swelled with wrath, and then she was frightened, fled to her room and wept. [10]
- Neither at home nor elsewhere did Ruth utter any complaint, or admit any weariness or doubt of her ability to pursue the path she had marked out for herself. [5]
- No sudden wrath, no ardent desire, no weariness or aversion urges or delays them. [10]
- He said he never had to work for a living, and that by the time he was thirty life had become a bore and a weariness to him. [5]
- It was a monk with a face which, even in this dim light, showed a deathly weariness. [11]
- Leave me, and let me wear my spirit with weariness and waiting, even as I have done these ten long days, counterfeiting thus the thing that is called rest, the prone body making outward sign of repose where inwardly is none. [5]
- I did not know what weariness meant, and when, on reaching Gottingen, I learned that the students' coffee-house was still closed and that no one would arrive for three or four days, I went to Cassel to visit the royal garden in Wilhelmshohe. [10]
- Prince Vasili understood it as an expression of weariness. [2]
- Where the scenery is monotonous and repeats itself mile after mile and hour after hour, an intolerable weariness falls upon the company. [4]
- When the mind is in torture and the spirit is torn, the instinctive effort is to bodily activity, to force physical exertion, as if there must be compensation for the mental strain in the weariness of nature. [4]
- One could detect in the lapse of the waves along the shore the note of weariness preceding the change into the fretfulness and the tumult of tempests. [4]
- Macnamara's eyes burned in his head with weariness, his body became numb, but Mahommed Mahmoud would allow no pause. [11]
- The Senator wrought in Bible classes, and nothing could keep him away from the Sunday Schools--neither sickness nor storms nor weariness. [5]
- Monday I believe I see what the week is for: it is to give time to rest up from the weariness of Sunday. [5]
- During my recitations, however, weariness asserted itself, and even more strongly the new feeling which had obtained complete mastery over me. [10]
- The sight of his senile weariness flashed the irony of the whole wild dream into Valmond's mind. [11]
- Lay him in his own bed, and let him sleep off his aches and weariness. [6]
- Slowly he opens his eyes, After long weariness, smiles, And stretches arms overhead, While those about him take heart. [5]
- He lay on his bed of pain softly crying, and when he observed by the shadow of the rock that the sun had passed its noonday height, indignation and bitter feeling were added to pain, thirst and weariness. [10]
- Mr. Bass dressed himself scrupulously in the fashion, was very exact in his pronunciation, careful about his manner, and had the air of a little weariness, of the responsibility of one looking at life. [4]
- But weariness returns; He lays the book aside With his glasses upon the bed, And gladly sleeps. [5]
- In this state he lay for many days, not suffering pain, but with the sense of great weariness, and the feeling that he should never rise from his bed again. [6]
- With this whip he cut the shoulders of any that tottered from weariness and pain, and straightened them up. [5]
- The weariness she had plainly shown before had now quite passed off. [2]
- At Bremerton, it had not gathered in the pockets, he had used it all--all had counted; but in the feverish, ceaseless activity of the city parish he had never once felt that intense satisfaction of emptying himself, nor, the sweet weariness that follows it. [9]
- This inspiring sight had made the Hebrews for a short time forget thirst and weariness. [10]
- Howbeit, when I had heard the same tale again and again it ceased from touching me so deeply; so that at last, instead of such deep compassion, it moved me only to dull gloom and, I will confess, to unspeakable weariness. [10]
- Her heavy brow grew heavier, her eyes gleamed sulkily, as she dragged herself forward with weariness, and stood silent and resentful. [11]
- I have had glimpses of its meaning, it moments when I was not as ignorant with weariness as usual, but this is the first time the whole spacious idea of it ever filtered in sight. [5]
- His weariness passed from him; the joy of battle was on him. [11]
- She turned away from him with a gesture of weariness. [9]
- The goddess of fortune sometimes blesses the persistent even before they begin to persist--perhaps from sheer weariness at the remembrance of previous importuning. [9]
- Here was wood for a fire, and here she ate, and in weariness unspeakable fell asleep. [11]
- He saw her face, and then he lost it again in sheer weariness at the effort. [4]
- She closed her eyes with weariness, and pressed her hands to her temples. [11]
- But the bleached eyeball, the scar, and the familiar weariness of his expression were still the same. [2]
- And it can express every shade of feeling, from the rich yellow of prosperous wooing to the brick-colored weariness of life that is hardly distinguishable from the liver complaint. [4]
- For some clubs even are a weariness, and it costs money to hire other people to read and think for us. [4]
- You may never doubt what the common flowers growing along the pathway to the front door mean to the maiden of many summers who tends them; --love and religion, and the weariness of an uneventful life. [4]
- And life, and death, and love, and weariness, And unrequital, thrid the maze of sound; And one voice saith, "Behold, the lost is found! [11]
- After Barbara had crossed the threshold of hers, she said good-night to her father, who wished to learn all sorts of details, alleging that she could scarcely speak from weariness. [10]
- But by and by the night air, and the duskiness, and the weariness of eight hours in the saddle, began to tell, and conversation flagged and finally died out utterly. [5]
- At length, towards break of day, that deep sleep came upon her which succeeds to weariness and over-watching, and which has no consciousness but one of overpowering and irresistible enjoyment. [12]
- The struggle had been too great, the fight for the other lost self had exhausted him, mind and body, and only a deep obliquity and a great weariness filled the countenance. [11]
- This might have been taken as an expression of sorrow and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. [2]
- Perhaps this was because his senses were more used to it, more blunted; or was it because something had gone from her--that freshness of mind and body, that resilience of temper and spirit, without which all talk is travail and weariness? [11]
- At his entrance Barbara rose quickly from the chair, into which she had sunk by no means from weariness. [10]
- Others were driven away by the heat, by temporary weariness, by the need of a vacation and change of scene. [4]
- Nothing told us, as we halted in our weariness, that we had reached the Promised Land. [9]
- The chance of arrangement is that the people who would like to talk together are not neighbors; and if they are, they exhaust each other to weariness in an hour, at least of topics which can be talked about with the risk of being overheard. [4]
- I love stir and excitement; and so the moment the spring birds begin to sing, and the lagging weariness of summer to threaten, I grow restless, I get the fidgets; I want to pack off somewhere where there's something going on. [5]
- They were in a vast theatre of war, and they were part of it; but for the moment sheer waste of spirit and weariness of soul made peace in a turbulent heart. [11]
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