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the feeling of being bored by something that is uninteresting- I'm grateful I have others to deal with the tedium.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- Sometimes I was off at midnight, sometimes not until two A.M. Tedium alternated with Grand Guignol, and Grand Guignol with high comedy.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- They hate the guards, they hate the food, they hate the tedium.Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
- I'm. pleased to have found a friend at these balls, where I expected to find only tedium... Does Ella (oops) Lela want more than friendship?Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
- Yet, hours into the night, I lay awake arguing with myself: relentless tedium, back and forth, what if, what if, what harm could it do?Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- I often thought of the tedium of life once one had seen all its surprises.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- If this was power, why did it taste like tedium?George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- For there was one last letter, this one in code, seemingly innocuous in its babbling about hunting and the tedium of life in Niagara.Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
- To reduce the tedium of the journey, Orik played a game of riddles with Saphira.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Others, whose briefer span forbade their devoting themselves to studies so abstruse, beguiled the little tedium of the way with penny-papers.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- Tedium is the worst pain.John Gardner -- Grendel
- I have a memory of infinite tedium.H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- It was Leora who bore the real tedium.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- The rest was a tedium the queen knew well.George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
- The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- [Despairingly] I am dying of this tedium.Anton Chekhov -- Uncle Vanya
- But the view—of the blank face of the compound's outer wall—provided no relief from the tedium of the room.Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
- He preferred to hunt and hawk, and leave the tedium to old Lord Arryn.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- Inching to the pantry, I knew that this game, born out of monsoon tedium, was no longer that.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- But, in the end, even that distraction with no expectation only increased the tedium.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
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