1 A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
2 Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.
3 He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward.
4 It is so tedious a subject that one would have to talk seriously about it.
5 It is quite true, I never talk when I am working, and never listen either, and it must be dreadfully tedious for my unfortunate sitters.
6 Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar.
7 The generation into which I was born was tedious.
8 They have become stout and tedious, and when I meet them, they go in at once for reminiscences.
9 They are good husbands, or faithful wives, or something tedious.
10 Her guests this evening were rather tedious.
11 Yes: it was certainly a tedious party.
12 Some of the acquaintances to whom she had been a tedious or indifferent or ridiculous affliction, dropped her: others became cordial.
13 I fear, my friend, that I shall render myself tedious by dwelling on these preliminary circumstances; but they were days of comparative happiness, and I think of them with pleasure.
14 The first part of their journey was performed in too melancholy a disposition to be otherwise than tedious and unpleasant.
15 The alteration is not in them, if their parties are grown tedious and dull.