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As for wars," she continued with apparent irrelevance, "there's this much to be said: a lot of good men may get killed, but when you think of the thousands of detestable, tyrannical, stingy, boresome husbands—well, it is to be imagined that a few widows will manage to bear up.

They rose without surprise or disorder, still with strict attention to business continuing to munch at the grass they had plucked as they lay, for all the world as if a famous adventure-seeking general had been only the harmless but boresome shepherd who came to drive them out to pastures new.

Her musical parties are rigidly musical and to me, therefore, rigidly boresome, especially as she herself sings very little.

There was an element of excitement in serving moral fiction to unsuspecting listeners, but hoodwinking himself proved a boresome task.

Well, Judge, life has become rather boresome, so I thought I would drop in and ask you to do me a small favor.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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