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And no variety, no division of time, no hour, no sun or night disturbed or changed this melancholy monotonousness.

From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

What he revealed was not the cause of her sickness: women can bear revelations—they are exciting: but the monotonousness.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

Monstrous monotonousness has enfolded us as with the arms of Amphitrite!

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

Without any objective change whatever, variety had taken the place of monotonousness.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas

She sounded like Tennyson's 'Brook,' with a 'Men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever' monotonousness that was as depressing as it was incessant.

From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie