wearisomeness
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
When his impaired eye-sight no longer permitted him to read, his principal relief from the wearisomeness of unoccupied time was in the society of his friends and near relatives.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe
In the former case there is an accumulation of sensorial power during the quiescence of the muscles now brought into action; which probably constitutes the pain or wearisomeness of a continued attitude.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
If in its outer aspect there be anything wearisome, it is only the wearisomeness of reiterated splendors, and of success so uniform as to be almost monotonous.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
In the plays of the Athenian comic poets of the third and fourth centuries B.C. we find, to wearisomeness, one recurring plot.
From The Jesus of History by T. R. Glover
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