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Far from the Madding Crowd
- I am soon going back again to the miserable monotony of drill—and perhaps our regiment will be ordered out soon.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- The glasses and cups still stood upon the table, a water-jug being overturned, from which a small rill, after tracing its course with marvellous precision down the centre of the long table, fell into the neck of the unconscious Mark Clark, in a steady, monotonous drip, like the dripping of a stalactite in a cave.†
Chpt 34-36
- The waggon and its load rolled no longer on the horizontal division between clearness and opacity, but were imbedded in an elastic body of a monotonous pallor throughout.†
Chpt 40-42
- At three in the afternoon he found himself at the foot of a slope more than a mile in length, which ran to the ridge of a range of hills lying parallel with the shore, and forming a monotonous barrier between the basin of cultivated country inland and the wilder scenery of the coast.†
Chpt 46-48
- Their pied faces and legs, dark and heavy horns, tresses of wool hanging round their swarthy foreheads, quite relieved the monotony of the flocks in that quarter.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring