Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would be tedious to relate all the conversations I had that night. Suffice it to say, that I danced with Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria, Barnum's Fat Woman (who came just up to my shoulder, and was very slight), the Goddess of Liberty, and several reigning princesses. I came away feeling that I had never been in such distinguished company before, and should recommend to any one afflicted with the blues a visit to a ball at Somerville. The cure would be complete...
...College press has so frequently censured the practice of stamping at Memorial when a stranger fails to remove his hat, that any further arguments on this head would be tedious. No one who wishes to be considered a gentleman should join in such an exhibition of childish ill manners. Any stranger who should be the recipient of such an outbreak would regard the boarders at the Hall as absolutely devoid of politeness. It is to be hoped that yesterday's disorder will not be repeated...
...point of the number of contestants and excellence of records, ever held. The only drawbacks seem to have been the incompetency of the gentleman who was substituted for Mr. White to judge of walking; and the great variety of jumping contests, which, together with the pole vaulting, were decidedly tedious. The success that Harvard's representatives won should urge our athletic men to fresh exertions, and the apparent walk-overs in the mile-run and in several other contests should instil in them the idea of training next winter for prizes easily within their grasp...
Fourth Inning. - Hutchison out, Latham to Wright, Parker hit safe; Smith hit to Wright, who stood midway between home and first, and met the runner; the latter slid along the ground, and the umpire decided not out. This caused a tedious and exciting discussion between the rival captains and their assistants; and no other competent person volunteering as an umpire, the game was resumed where it had been left off. Ripley struck out, and Tyng juggled the ball sufficiently to seduce Parker from second, and then fielded him out, making a brilliant double play and withdrawing us from a precarious...
...their heavy batting, getting two two-basers at the start, - Princeton in the mean while piling up errors in rapid succession, - until our score reached old-time figures, while Princeton's, through her inability to hit Ernst, remained severely modern in its proportions. The game was rendered still more tedious and uninteresting by the tire-somely slow movements of Princeton's pitcher, who, without making it at all effective, busied himself with a purposeless churning of the ball until one grew nervously weary in waiting for his labored delivery...