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The Secret Sharer
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- Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea, two small clumps of trees, one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint, marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey; and, far back on the inland level, a larger and loftier mass, the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda, was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon.†
monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- His care to subdue his voice made it sound monotonous.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)