Word: tedium
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...Luto, Machiavelli's great-grandfather, J. D. Nichols '06 Parthos d'Artagan de Marsac de Trop, cadet of Gascony, B. Joy '05 ?, his absent-minded servant, G. H. Field '06 Laura, Lucrezia's tiring-woman, C. S. Bird, Jr., '06 Alfred Dante Petrarch, W. P. Sanger '05 Father Tedium, C. S. Adams...
...went to Olney and Cowper with them. Due greatly to the bad influence of a Mr. Newton, curate of the parish, in 1773 his malady again returned and through his long illness of two years he was attended by Mrs. Unwin with the most affectionate care. To beguile the tedium of his recovery, he occupied himself with carpentry and gardening, and in domesticating his famous hares. Slowly his faculties became composed, and at the age of fifty they were back with all their grace. He recommenced writing letters to his friends, and their publication has given to us some most...
Prof. Francis William Newman has recently published a Latin translation of Robinson Cruso, under the title "Rebelius Crusoe; a book to lighten tedium to the learner of Latin...
...tedium of the chemistry recitation was broken yesterday by a student going to sleep and rolling off his seat. Much to the amusement of the class". This happened at Yale...
...bubbling to simmerdown that there is no time for these chimerical dabblings in the literature and art which denote a civilization that is well shaken down and settled. It is supposed that these elements only come to the surface when a civilization begins to rot from its own tedium, that they are the gases therefrom caught in balloons and allowed to float about in the air till they collapse of their own accord. But this is evidently untrue, or Boston must have jumped from the cradle into long trousers without stopping for bibs, pinafores and knee-breeches. The latter...