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  • I had an individual ache in every bone of my body, and I was hungry and was compelled to look forward to a dinner of odorous salt-horse, hard bread, and "ennuied" coffee, but I was happy -- I had to admit that.

    A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Russell Doubleday 1910

  • "Did you return to Paris when you ennuied yourself so énormement?" asked

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

  • As that of a man ennuied with life -- tired of living because he had nothing in the world to occupy his affections.

    Trailin'! Max Brand 1918

  • And here I find you so far from being ennuied that you are using your whole strength to keep the guilt of murder away from another man.

    Trailin'! Max Brand 1918

  • They were human beings with greedy, desiring souls in them, these men and women of the dead eighteenth century, not delicate painted figures on screens and panels, and none but actors would be consoled by their undoubted picturesqueness when they are being tortured or ennuied.

    Haydn Runciman, John F 1908

  • "You must be frightfully ennuied with all this," Eugene said to her.

    The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Larrabee used to call him the first aid to the ennuied.

    In Our Town William Allen White 1906

  • The spacious and impressive lounging-rooms were but sparsely tenanted, other than by the ennuied corps of servants; and the few members who had lent the open doors the excuse of their presence were of the elderly type that hides itself behind a newspaper in an easy chair and snorts when addressed.

    The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • ` ` You must be frightfully ennuied with all this, '' Eugene said to her.

    The Conquest of Canaan 1905

  • Deacon Pitts had the ghoulish delight of the ennuied country mind in funerals and the mortality of man; and this morning the butcher had brought him news of death in a neighboring town.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

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