Wearisome

Wearisome is a legitimate word, and without any pretension whatsoever.

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Wearisome indeed is travelling with camels; but what would it have been had we been mounted upon them, as is generally the case with travellers from Sinai and 'Akabah!

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

Wearisome quarrels resulted, during which the city of Lausanne, with the aid of Berne and Fribourg, acquired new rights, and gradually freed itself from episcopal suzerainty.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

“Wearisome days and nights” were appointed to him for the remainder of his life; and the very margin of his grave was destined to be strewed with thorns.

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1892

Albert read from the Silent Comforter the piece called “Wearisome Nights,” which is an exact expression of my state and feelings.

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882

Wearisome waiting, this; and yet the men cannot be here before the middle or end of this month.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

Wearisome waiting, and the sun is now rainy at mid-day, and will become hotter right on to the hot season in November, but this delay may be all for the best.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

Wearisome, to tell the truth, with that eternal tale which everybody was sick of for the last fifty years; but he took it as a pretext to assume a melancholy air, detached from life: "After what I have seen!" he would say -- very unjustly, because it was to that he owed his post as collector and kept it 'under all administrations.

Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868

Wearisome part is the waiting on the people who do the work

Images from Works of Charles D. Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Wearisome negotiations then began with men who should furnish means for the removal.

Ten Great Events in History James Johonnot 1855