But it was a very ancient and boresome experience to Collins.

Long Bill had the boresome habit of asking questions to which the answers were obvious.

"This whole boresome incident has been a revelation to me, Hayden.

One of the deacons has been holding church, but he can't talk plain and he's boresome to have to listen to."

Perhaps they had grown boresome to him.

"It's too boresome at night, without no singing."

Stalking game was often boresome work.

It wasn't even that the subject was boresome, particularly--it was just that it was pointless.

Now there was another expedition forming, and Jake was determined to go; life in Austin had become so boresome that he'd even put his scalp at risk rather than stay.

Charlotte goes into the marriage aware of Mr. Collins's nature and his company actually boresome but her view towards the marriage is that she will gain something greater than happiness.

Why not let the wife and family die of starvation or get out and hustle for themselves, if by no other means the world could have the chance of being freed from the most boresome, most dull, and foulest disease of having always to be a little dishonest?

I have you and I have an employer who, though somewhat boresome with his sorceries and his endless mild speaking, seems a harmless enough chap and certainly more endurable than his brother Hasjarl, if but half of what I hear of that one is true."

"America is the land . . . of the insupportable Washington, the boresome Emerson, the degenerate Walt Whitman, the sickening Longfellow, the angelic Wilson, the philanthropic Morgan, the undesirable Edison and other men of like quality," Papini once fumed.