dullnesses

The worst of Pisa is, or would be to some persons, that, socially speaking, it has its dullnesses; it is not lively like Florence, not in that way.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

Addison's Cato, Johnson's Irene, and the dramas of Racine and Corneille are among the abysmal dullnesses mankind owes to its excessive estimation of the past.

G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Julius West 1904

The worst of Pisa is, or would be to some persons, that, socially speaking, it has its dullnesses; it is not lively like Florence, not in that way.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

Great pantomimes have I seen at the Grecian -- a happy gallery boy at three pence -- pantomimes compact of fun and fantasy, far surpassing, even to the man's eye, the gilded dullnesses of Drury Lane.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

We had one game in the ship which was a good time-passer -- at least it was at night in the smoking-room when the men were getting freshened up from the day's monotonies and dullnesses.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

We had one game in the ship which was a good time-passer -- at least it was at night in the smoking-room when the men were getting freshened up from the day's monotonies and dullnesses.

Following the Equator — Part 1 Mark Twain 1872

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullnesses of it and the pomposities of it. iii

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

"I think of it as it should have been, with its prolixities docked, its dullnesses enlivened, its fads eliminated, its truths multiplied," he wrote in dedicating it to his brother's memory.

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"I think of it as it should have been, with its prolixities docked, its dullnesses enlivened, its fads eliminated, its truths multiplied," he wrote in dedicating it to his brother's memory.

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"I think of it as it should have been, with its prolixities docked, its dullnesses enlivened, its fads eliminated, its truths multiplied," he wrote in dedicating it to his brother's memory.

NYT > Home Page By JIM HOLT 2010