All 9 Uses of
monotonous
in
Hard Times
- The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.†
Chpt 1.1
- It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.†
Chpt 1.5
- That exactly in the ratio as they worked long and monotonously, the craving grew within them for some physical relief — some relaxation, encouraging good humour and good spirits, and giving them a vent — some recognized holiday, though it were but for an honest dance to a stirring band of music — some occasional light pie in which even M'Choakumchild had no finger — which craving must and would be satisfied aright, or must and would inevitably go wrong, until the laws of the Creation…†
Chpt 1.5
- There had been so little communication between these two — both because life at Stone Lodge went monotonously round like a piece of machinery which discouraged human interference, and because of the prohibition relative to Sissy's past career — that they were still almost strangers.†
Chpt 1.9
- A clattering of clogs upon the pavement; a rapid ringing of bells; and all the melancholy mad elephants, polished and oiled up for the day's monotony, were at their heavy exercise again.†
Chpt 1.11
- 'There seems to be nothing there but languid and monotonous smoke.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- The Bank offered no violence to the wholesome monotony of the town.†
Chpt 2.1
- The monotony was unbroken.†
Chpt 3.5
- Even Stephen Blackpool's disappearance was falling into the general way, and becoming as monotonous a wonder as any piece of machinery in Coketown.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring