By and by came the winter and the deep snows; and even then, unwilling to give up his habitual place of exercise, the monotonousness of which promoted his wish to keep before his mind one subject of thought, Septimius wore a path through the snow, and still walked there.
"Septimius Felton or, The Elixir of Life"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Without any objective change whatever, variety had taken the place of monotonousness.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
The gentle waves were just a stronger grey than the sky, perforce of an interfusion that shifted gradations; they were silken, in places oily grey; cold to drive the sight across their playful monotonousness for refuge on any far fisher-sail.
"One of Our Conquerors, v2"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English