bored

• Look at me,--if I get into a company where I'm pointed out, monstrari digito_, as Hugh Kinross, I'm bored--and no doubt show that I am Yes, I've often noticed that," said Kate, who had long secretly considered this rather a noble trait in her brother's character Yes," said Hugh pensively, "and then when I get into a company where no one knows me from Smith the chemist's clerk, a childish resentment comes over me Good heavens!" —  In the Mist of the Mountains
• And we began to feel apologetic for the dinginess and general down-at-heeledness of Venice which bored the men from Munich to extinction--really they were so bored, they said, that all day they found themselves looking forward to the caramei man as the town's one excitement. —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
• Mrs. Lee was painfully bored, and after a time even the absurdity of the thing ceased to amuse her She had, too, the ill-luck to make one or two remarks which appealed to some hidden sense of humour in the Princess, who laughed and, in the style of royal personages, gave her to understand that she would like more amusement of the same sort. —  Democracy, an American novel
• Then he never pretends to be bored--but why are you so solemn, Nan; doesn't it please you Nan kissed her sister I hope you will be very happy, dear,' she said, in her grave, kind way Then I suppose I must answer his letter at once,' continued Madge, in her excited way. —  The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
• Won't she be awfully bored Margaret doesn't know what the word bored means. —  There was a King in Egypt

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