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World-weary, she immediately resolved to accept the invitation.
JOSEPHINEJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
The world-weary man looks on with wonder, reverencing yet not comprehending.
FOLLY AS IT FLIESFANNY FERN
The country cries health and enthusiasm to the world-weary soul as it does to the barefoot boy.
THE NEW EDUCATIONSCOTT NEARING
It is significant that Wagner was as world-weary from middle-age on as was Beethoven.
BEETHOVENGEORGE ALEXANDER FISCHER
The heroines of poems and fictions are complex people to-day, world-weary, tempestuous and without peace of heart or mind.
THE DRUNKARDCYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER GULL
A pathetic sight to eyes wise enough to see the pathos,—a world-weary, middle-aged man in vain quest of his lost boyhood.
ASA HOLMESANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
World-weary, and in despair, he apparently wished only to die.
FERDINAND DE SOTO, THE DISCOVERER OF THE MISSISSIPPIJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
It was to this abode that Aaron Burr, world-weary and near death, was brought in 1836.
THROUGH THE GATES OF OLD ROMANCEW. JAY MILLS
In it the world-weary age of the later renaissance sought escape from the materialism that bound it.
PASTORAL POETRY AND PASTORAL DRAMAWALTER W. GREG
Italy has grown old, and Ariosto is the genius of a tired, world-weary, disillusioned age.
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: ITALIAN LITERATUREJOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

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