And then she bought me a brown serge suit and a hat so tiresomely sensible that even Aunt Jane will love them, I know.
"Mary Marie"
Eleanor H. Porter
A few sallow years with a rapid, profligate nobleman had brought her, in widowhood, to a fine sense of appreciation of the slow-going though tiresomely unpractical men of the Odell-Carney type.
"The Husbands of Edith"
George Barr McCutcheon
The narrative is by turns abrupt and tiresomely prolix, proceeding not so much by dialogue as by elaborate dissection and discussion of motives and states of mind, interspersed with the author's reflections.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers