aweary

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Like the heroine of his sister Maud's favourite poem he was "aweary, aweary," and he wanted a drink.

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  1. adjective Archaic Tired; weary.

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  • While they were not as yet either aweary or habituated to the necessity of importunity, they remembered their girlhood and their ladyhood, their youth and their modesty, and still carried with them something of the bashfulness of maidenhood; and the young men, the wether lambs, were as yet flush with their half-crowns, and the elder sheep had not quite dispensed the last of their sovereigns or buttoned up their trousers pockets. —  Miss Mackenzie
  • "Medoubteth if she will ever be as lovesome as I. I was much better favoured at her years.--Art thou aweary, sweeting At last Clare spoke; but only in an affirmative monosyllable. —  Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
  • An' at the top of the ladder I looks down, an' there he was wi' his arms folded across the shiny brass railin', an' he lookin' down, aweary-like, at his engines Lavis took Andie's hand. —  Sonnie-Boy's People
  • He stopped by the rail and stared, aweary-like, I thought, upon the waters Simon, surely few men but would rather be themselves than anybody else that lives; but surely, too, no man sailing his own wide courses but comes to the day when he wishes he'd been less free in his navigation at times. —  The Trawler
  • She said, 'I am aweary, aweary; I would that I were dead!' —  An Eye for an Eye
 

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/əˈwiri/
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