Word: bore
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...annual festival collapse altogether. Now, it behooveth us to devise at once some means of averting any such collapse; for it would be a misfortune indeed to be deprived of our only gala-day, or to have it still observed, but with its glory passed and its continuance a bore...
...enjoyment afforded by a Saturday afternoon in town? Don't be frightened by the conundrum, or astonished at the seeming absurdity of the supposition that Harvard students can be ignorant in such a particular. I am serious, and honestly think that to the majority Saturday afternoons are a bore, or at least are not made the most of. Unless the theatre or opera is attractive, not one man in ten knows what to do with himself. Billiards, and a dinner at Parker's or Maison Doree; is the unsatisfactory result. Now, to a man capable of enjoying anything higher, there...
...bore the Gorgon's snaky head...
...grumbling, vote these things a bore...
...under a monitor now, and O dear, it's a terrible bore...