1 She began calling for Ashley, over and over, as if in a delirium until the hideous monotony gave Scarlett a fierce desire to smother her voice with a pillow.
2 They had fried eggs for breakfast and fried ham for supper to vary the monotony of the yams, peanuts and dried apples, and on one festal occasion they even had roast chicken.
3 If one did drag one's self out of bed at such an hour, and come down fresh and radiant to the monotony of note-writing, some special recognition of the sacrifice seemed fitting.
4 There was only one break in the dreary monotony of that month: when Blind d'Arnault, the Negro pianist, came to town.
5 He stared at the red, shivering reflection of a fire on the white wall of his tent until, exhausted and ill from the monotony of his suffering, he fell asleep.
6 On a slope to the left there was a long row of guns, gruff and maddened, denouncing the enemy, who, down through the woods, were forming for another attack in the pitiless monotony of conflicts.
7 My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 8 The Bank offered no violence to the wholesome monotony of the town.
9 Clym and Eustacia, in their little house at Alderworth, beyond East Egdon, were living on with a monotony which was delightful to them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 10 The monotony of his occupation soothed him, and was in itself a pleasure.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 11 Now and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the conversation soon flagged.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 12 Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face 13 As is indeed not unfrequent with women of unimpeachable virtue, weary of the monotony of respectable existence, at a distance she not only excused illicit love, she positively envied it.
14 The monotony became unbearable, and as the mist thickened, he felt afraid.
15 The dull monotony of daily toil is broken only by the gayety of the thoughtless and the Saturday trip to town.