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Definition
lacking in variety — typically boring
- The prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I could see.Chapters 16-18 -- The Ship; The Ramadan; His Mark (22% in)
- Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.Chapters 124-126 -- The Needle; The Log and Line; The Life-Buoy (65% in)
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