"It's always involuntary, my tiresomeness," she said, addressing him earnestly.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Apart from its tiresomeness she did not even like it, and she would tell Lady Caroline not to order it again.
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim
She did not call the audacity of her behavior with the jay flirting; he seemed to understand it as well as she, and to meet her in her own spirit; she wondered now whether this jay was really more interesting than the other men one met, or only different; whether he was original, like Alan himself, or merely novel, and would soon wear down to the tiresomeness that seemed to underlie them all, and made one wish to do something dreadful.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009