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  • "And I'm not jaded either."†   (source)
  • Monika Nilsson was at her desk, an experienced general reporter specialising in political coverage; she could be the most jaded cynic he had ever met.†   (source)
  • And her eyes, her violet eyes, contained a jaded, cynical air-the result of Eragon's blessing that was a curse, for it forced her to both endure other people's pain and also try to prevent it.†   (source)
  • I guess I got jaded about men in general.†   (source)
  • Even the jaded horsemen would take a respite from their labors to see him, eating their breakfasts outdoors on the benches near the siding.†   (source)
  • It was 'his that held the jaded audience, this terrible pain.†   (source)
  • 'Filpo,' said a calm, slender, jaded-looking man who had not even stirred from his armchair.†   (source)
  • Jaded college kids didn't look so blasé anymore.†   (source)
  • But the original was there as well'more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic.†   (source)
  • The flat was a simple two-bedroom apartment, but one glance and even the most jaded traveler would know its inhabitants were not your average, simple people.†   (source)
  • He wasn't callous and he wasn't jaded.†   (source)
  • The offerings on the two sets of colinked virtual reality headphones had been a shock even to Eve's jaded system.†   (source)
  • We were not jaded warmongers, but if you've seen one dead body, you've seen them all.†   (source)
  • A jaded sailor stepped away from a movie machine while the film was still running.†   (source)
  • The collision was enormous, bringing even the most jaded observers to their feet.†   (source)
  • He was a man in an enormous hurry, building his reputation so quickly that he shocked even the most jaded professionals.†   (source)
  • Porters with jaded and resentful expressions pulled creaking wagons that were mainly empty, and one cut a straight path along the side of the concourse, drawing after him an enormous cart of wood and steel, upon which rested a single wicker-covered jug of wine.†   (source)
  • Will I forever, from now on, be jaded and mistrusting and negative?†   (source)
  • Jaded.†   (source)
  • No reviewer would find fault with it, and not even the most jaded of readers would doubt its verisimilitude.†   (source)
  • No longer needing me to initiate the move, Mary Alice gropes for my zipper, her mean little hand ready to perform its spiritless operation on my equally jaded appendage.†   (source)
  • The fresh air stimulatesthe jaded appetite.†   (source)
  • The city of New York, like all cities, had first swallowed the story in jaded silence.†   (source)
  • I never grew jaded, the way so many city kids do.†   (source)
  • The other option is to be jaded because you've been fighting a defeat for eighteen years, and trying to stop it, at least save the elbow joint for Kenol, you know."†   (source)
  • Then again, she had endured an incredible amount of pain in her short life, and the experience had hardened her to a degree rarely seen even in the most jaded of warriors.†   (source)
  • See how jaded you're getting?†   (source)
  • …in being beautiful, were her allies— the blue of the stage-set in the floodlights, the grace of a cat as it turned its small lion-like face to question a human movement, a fire that blazed from within the dark of a blacksmith's shop or a baker's and caught his eye as he passed, a single tone arising from a cathedral choir to shock a jaded congregation with its unworldly beauty, the mountaintops as snow was lashed from them by blue winds, the perfect and uncontrived smile of a child.†   (source)
  • But then the hum became the comfortable, jaded hum of the sophisticated and perfumed crowd that had filled the lobby and the vault of the theater before.†   (source)
  • Perhaps her eye had become jaded, but Eve's initial scan of the room left her thinking,Overdone, overwrought, and overexpensive.†   (source)
  • Thus the jaded reader surfeited with our century's perdurable feast of atrocities will be spared here a detailed chronicle of the killings, gassings, beatings, tortures, criminal medical experiments, slow deprivations, excremental outrages, screaming madnesses and other entries into the historical account which have already been made by Tadeusz Borowski, Jean-Francois Steiner, Olga Lengyel, Eugen Kogon, Andre Schwarz-Bart, Elie Wiesel and Bruno Bettelheim, to name but a few of the most…†   (source)
  • My book is out; and jaded and distracted I return to this free page.†   (source)
  • The weariness of the night wore in upon their jaded nerves, lay upon their dry hot eyeballs.†   (source)
  • "Ach," exclaimed his father, "it isn't his stomach, Joe, it's his palate-jaded with delicacies."†   (source)
  • Hugh and Helen returned abruptly next morning to a scene of dismal tinsellings and jaded lilies.†   (source)
  • As Judith and Clytie did, I stood there before the rotting portico and watched him ride up on that gaunt and jaded horse on which he did not seem to sit but rather seemed to project himself ahead like a mirage, in some fierce dynamic rigidity of impatience which the gaunt horse, the saddle, the boots, the leaf-colored and threadbare coat with its tarnished and flappingbraid containing the sentient though nerveless shell, could not keep up with, which seemed to precede him as he…†   (source)
  • He looked tired, rather jaded.†   (source)
  • She was young—she seemed younger to me then than she did later on looking back, for that summer I was so sure that I was old and jaded—and she was timid and sensitive and shy, but it wasn't any squealing, squeaking, pullet-squawking, teasing, twitching, oh-that's-not-nice-and-I-never-let-anybody-do-that-before-oh kind of shyness.†   (source)
  • Just beyond, separated from the living room by a wide arch or second proscenium with transparent jaded portieres (or second curtain), is the dining room.†   (source)
  • "The Ishkabibble," "Seaview," "Rest Haven," "Atlantic Inn,"—Eugene looked at them, reading with weariness the bleached and jaded humor of their names.†   (source)
  • Mescal and Piute soon arrived, and, later, Dave and Billy on jaded mustangs.†   (source)
  • Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate.†   (source)
  • At this juncture the jaded horse was spurred into a trot, soon reaching the pines and the camp.†   (source)
  • A little rest for the jaded animal being desirable, he did not hasten his search for landmarks.†   (source)
  • Into the youth's eyes there came a look that one can see in the orbs of a jaded horse.†   (source)
  • The lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and more jaded than usual.†   (source)
  • The friend seemed jaded, but he interrupted his comrade with a voice of calm confidence.†   (source)
  • "O yes," she answered with a jaded gait.†   (source)
  • This was no lying trick of her jaded ears, worn out from silence.†   (source)
  • It was a tranquil scene, and restful to the weary eye and the jaded spirit.†   (source)
  • He had a jaded anxious look upon him, and his hand, usually steady, trembled in hers.†   (source)
  • VIII When old Ivar climbed down from his loft at four o'clock the next morning, he came upon Emil's mare, jaded and lather-stained, her bridle broken, chewing the scattered tufts of hay outside the stable door.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the people are a little jaded.†   (source)
  • When the bustle and excitement of preparation was at its height, the hunting party made its appearance, struggling in by twos and threes, the men hot and weary, the horses covered with foam, and the jaded hounds panting and dejected—and not a single kill!†   (source)
  • They wanted high excitement, not from the necessity of stimulating jaded nerves but with the avidity of prize-winning schoolchildren who deserved their vacations.†   (source)
  • His jaded horse was scarcely recognizable; froth and sweat and dust had accumulated in a caked lather, yellow and hard as sun-baked mud, over front and hind quarters.†   (source)
  • If I'd been jaded that day, or hadn't liked your face, well—it's a curious question where you would have been now!"†   (source)
  • Early in the forenoon parties of jaded men began to straggle into the village, but the strongest of the citizens continued searching.†   (source)
  • You're jaded, Castorp.†   (source)
  • The sun went in behind some clouds and left us to our jaded thoughts and the crumbs of our provisions.†   (source)
  • …was obliged, in order to console herself for not being quite on a level with the rest of the Guermantes, to repeat to herself incessantly that it was owing to the uncompromising rigidity of her principles and pride that she saw so little of them, the constant iteration had gradually remoulded her body, and had given her a sort of 'bearing' which was accepted by the plebeian as a sign of breeding, and even kindled, at times, a momentary spark in the jaded eyes of old gentlemen in clubs.†   (source)
  • Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter.†   (source)
  • Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg.†   (source)
  • So frank an appeal for participation—so outspoken a recognition of the holiday vein in human nature—struck refreshingly on a mind jaded by prolonged hard work in surroundings made for the discipline of the senses.†   (source)
  • Stephen remained in the background, depressed more than ever by the darkness and silence of the theatre and by the air it wore of jaded and formal study.†   (source)
  • For the most part these were staring before them, murmuring indistinct questions, jaded, haggard, unclean.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XVII A week later Dorian Gray was sitting in the conservatory at Selby Royal talking to the pretty Duchess of Monmouth, who with her husband, a jaded-looking man of sixty, was amongst his guests.†   (source)
  • The habit had been formed as he sat in his buggy behind the jaded white horse and went slowly along country roads.†   (source)
  • He was alone at the side of the balcony, looking out of jaded eyes at the culture of Dublin in the stalls and at the tawdry scene-cloths and human dolls framed by the garish lamps of the stage.†   (source)
  • Then he added: "Poor old chap, you're white and jaded—you ain't well a bit—no wonder you're a little flighty and off your balance.†   (source)
  • He could not give her up—and yet— Twilight forced Hare from his lofty retreat, and he trod his way campward, weary and jaded, but victorious over himself.†   (source)
  • His horse was jaded.†   (source)
  • The formula which he wrote obediently on the sheet of paper, the coiling and uncoiling calculations of the professor, the spectre-like symbols of force and velocity fascinated and jaded Stephen's mind.†   (source)
  • A knowledge of its faded and jaded condition made the charge appear like a paroxysm, a display of the strength that comes before a final feebleness.†   (source)
  • He had a half-jaded, half-irritated look, such as a man gets when he has been dogged by some care or annoyance that makes his bed and his dinner of little use to him.†   (source)
  • The hounds of that ardent young sportsman Rostov had not merely reached hard winter condition, but were so jaded that at a meeting of the huntsmen it was decided to give them a three days' rest and then, on the sixteenth of September, to go on a distant expedition, starting from the oak grove where there was an undisturbed litter of wolf cubs.†   (source)
  • It succeeded in enforcing submission from the jaded man this morning: his empoisoned system at this moment quailed before Bulstrode's cold, resolute bearing, and he was taken off quietly in the carriage before the family breakfast time.†   (source)
  • He had parted from them worn with care, and jaded with fatigue; he now saw them refreshed and blooming, though timid and anxious.†   (source)
  • "When we return to shore, jaded from all these natural wonders," Conseil added, "think how we'll look down on those pitiful land masses, those puny works of man!†   (source)
  • I had had a hard day's work, and was pretty well jaded when I came climbing out, at last, upon the level of Blackheath.†   (source)
  • Who can tell how scenes of peace and quietude sink into the minds of pain-worn dwellers in close and noisy places, and carry their own freshness, deep into their jaded hearts!†   (source)
  • There was an air of jaded sullenness in them both, and particularly in the girl: yet, struggling through the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression.†   (source)
  • What a triumph for the actor, thus to reduce a jaded London journalist to the condition of the simple sailor in the Wapping gallery, who shouts execrations at Iago and warnings to Othello not to believe him!†   (source)
  • But his exertions on this particular day had been of an unwonted sort, and he had performed great physical feats which left him less jaded than his tranquil stroll through the Louvre.†   (source)
  • But what principally struck us was a jaded and unhealthy-looking though by no means plain girl at the writing-table, who sat biting the feather of her pen and staring at us.†   (source)
  • This was the party from which Little Dorrit went home, jaded, in the first grey mist of a rainy morning.†   (source)
  • In any other place, the appearance of the wretched, jaded, spiritless object would have occasioned a murmur of compassion and remonstrance.†   (source)
  • Chapter XXIII IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT'S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG The next morning poor, jaded, famished Passepartout said to himself that he must get something to eat at all hazards, and the sooner he did so the better.†   (source)
  • After throwing a glance around him, with the vain wish of finding a single countenance in which he might detect a solitary gleam of sympathy, he endeavoured to smother those apprehensions, that were by this time reviving in their original violence, by forcing a sort of friendly communication between himself and the squatter— "The beasts are getting jaded, brother," he said, "and as we have made so good a march already, is it not time to camp.†   (source)
  • Weary, jaded, and spiritless, Eliza dragged herself up to the door, with her child lying in a heavy sleep on her arm.†   (source)
  • Over and above the faces that have fallen drowsily on tables and the heels that lie prone on hard floors instead of beds, the brick and mortar physiognomy of the very court itself looks worn and jaded.†   (source)
  • He bore his prize straight to his own back-garret, where, footsore and nearly shoeless, wet, dirty, jaded, and disfigured with every mark of fatiguing travel, sat Nicholas and Smike, at once the cause and partner of his toil; both perfectly worn out by their unwonted and protracted exertion.†   (source)
  • The file of mules, jaded by their day's work, turned and wound slowly up the deep ascent; the foremost led by a guide on foot, in his broad-brimmed hat and round jacket, carrying a mountain staff or two upon his shoulder, with whom another guide conversed.†   (source)
  • 'Yes; and the sense of being unfit for it, or of not having understood it, or of having shown his condition in spite of himself, seems to make him so uneasy, that next day he is worse, and next day worse, and so he becomes jaded and haggard.†   (source)
  • The scout now told the sisters to dismount; and taking the bridles from the mouths, and the saddles off the backs of the jaded beasts, he turned them loose, to glean a scanty subsistence among the shrubs and meager herbage of that elevated region.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, there was the clash of armour, and the gleaming of the moon on caps of steel; and, at others, jaded coursers were spurred up to the gate, and a female form glided hurriedly forth, as if eager to demand tidings of the weary messenger.†   (source)
  • 'When I first gathered myself together,' he thought, 'and set something like purpose before my jaded eyes, whom had I before me, toiling on, for a good object's sake, without encouragement, without notice, against ignoble obstacles that would have turned an army of received heroes and heroines?†   (source)
  • …part The pavement of Snow Hill had been baking and frying all day in the heat, and the twain Saracens' heads guarding the entrance to the hostelry of whose name and sign they are the duplicate presentments, looked—or seemed, in the eyes of jaded and footsore passers-by, to look—more vicious than usual, after blistering and scorching in the sun, when, in one of the inn's smallest sitting-rooms, through whose open window there rose, in a palpable steam, wholesome exhalations from reeking…†   (source)
  • From that time it became a frequent custom with Pancks the gipsy, as he went home jaded at night, to pass round by Bleeding Heart Yard, go quietly up the stairs, look in at Mr Baptist's door, and, finding him in his room, to say, 'Hallo, old chap!†   (source)
  • In such scenes and occupations the time wore on until nine o'clock, when Kate, jaded and dispirited with the occurrences of the day, hastened from the confinement of the workroom, to join her mother at the street corner, and walk home:—the more sadly, from having to disguise her real feelings, and feign to participate in all the sanguine visions of her companion.†   (source)
  • That he laboured under some mental or bodily indisposition, and that it was one of no slight kind so to affect a man like him, was sufficiently shown by his haggard face, jaded air, and hollow languid eyes: which he raised at last with a start and a hasty glance around him, as one who suddenly awakes from sleep, and cannot immediately recognise the place in which he finds himself.†   (source)
  • My spirits are quite jaded with listening to his nonsense: and then, being such a smart young fellow, I saw every eye was upon us.†   (source)
  • In the joyfulness of family love everything for a short time was subdued, and the pleasure of seeing her, leaving them at first little leisure for calm curiosity, they were all seated round the tea-table, which Mrs. Morland had hurried for the comfort of the poor traveller, whose pale and jaded looks soon caught her notice, before any inquiry so direct as to demand a positive answer was addressed to her.†   (source)
  • At Ponsonby's corner a jaded white flagon H. halted and four tallhatted white flagons halted behind him, E.L.Y'S, while outriders pranced past and carriages.†   (source)
  • If we live thus tamely, To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet, Farewell nobility!†   (source)
  • I'll humbly signify what in his name, That magical word of war, we have effected; How, with his banners, and his well-paid ranks, The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia We have jaded out o' the field.†   (source)
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