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It was clear to every one, even to the anxious nurse, that the stranger was not tiring the sick child.
THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNERThe stage was a platform, projecting into the yard, with a tiring-house at the rear, and a balcony overhead.
SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYHOUSESJOSEPH QUINCY ADAMSAfter daring and trying and tiring, these dour men eventually turned adre, which is Cornish for homeward.
ARCHAIC ENGLANDHAROLD BAYLEYHe saw that she was tiring, but he did not offer any help, for he knew that she was a sportsman.
THE HIGHGRADERWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINEAnd she hurried away to her tiring-room to don her finest raiment.
A GERMAN POMPADOURMARIE HAYBut I am now in splendid training; my right biceps is like a cricket-ball, and I feel that I could serve all day without tiring.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 147, AUGUST 12, 1914VARIOUSHe walked through one street after another, never tiring of the wonderful sights.
ROBERT ANNYS: POOR PRIESTANNIE NATHAN MEYERSledge runners are usually supported by this surface, but one's feet break through in a most annoying and tiring manner.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONIt was hard work felling trees and the Fox, soon tiring of it, made some sort of excuse to run off.
MIGHTY MIKKOPARKER FILLMOREFurlong—furrow long—the distance a team of oxen could pull a plow without tiring.
RESCUE DOG OF THE HIGH PASSJAMES ARTHUR KJELGAARDWORDS RELATED TO TIRING
- arid
- bomb
- bromidic
- bummer
- characterless
- cloying
- colorless
- commonplace
- dead
- drab
- drag
- dull
- flat
- ho hum
- humdrum
- insipid
- interminable
- irksome
- lifeless
- monotonous
- moth-eaten
- mundane
- nothing
- nowhere
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- prosaic
- repetitious
- routine
- spiritless
- stale
- stereotyped
- stodgy
- stuffy
- stupid
- tame
- tedious
- threadbare
- tiresome
- tiring
- trite
- unexciting
- uninteresting
- unvaried
- vapid
- wearisome
- well-worn
- zero
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