Example Sentences

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Words burn like stars, great thoughts outlast granite mountains, but the books in which words and thoughts, are written will weary a man's hand and tear his pocket.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will weary you no more by asking that which ye may not grant, nor will I deceive the Tarquins by show of help that it is not in me to give.

From Stories From Livy by Pinelli, Bartolomeo

I fear that in the long run people will weary of them.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert

My "dear friends" will weary of waiting for The Times.

From Charlotte Bront? A Monograph by Reid, T. Wemyss

So now I'll wish you all good night    It's time I was away; For I know my horse will weary    If I much longer stay.

From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur