Example Sentences

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He had to repress himself perpetually, in a way which must have been wearying and painfully irksome.

From Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Kavanagh, Julia

Barbara knows—they all know how I have been wearying for him all these months.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

And in truth, we have been wearying for the time to come; for after having had a year of fighting, one does not settle down readily to tilling the soil.

From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)