On the first night it had cheered them; on the second and third they had shut their eyes to the fact that they were bored; the other nights had been, growingly, of the nature of a fight against something-they could not have said what.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Tommy had seen him some time ago; he was rather bored when Venables looked round and saw him, and strolled towards him.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
The women of his acquaintance bored him to irritation.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee