Accompany me, therefore, to my own severe retreat, where this necessarily flat and unentertaining topic can be looked at from all round.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
To enumerate the great variety of occupations amongst us, would be as useless, and as unentertaining to the reader, perhaps to the writer, as to count the pebbles in the street.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
To enumerate all the plants that have been discovered within our limits would be a needless work; but a short list of the more rare, and the spots where they are to be found, may be neither unacceptable nor unentertaining: Helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore, bear's foot, or setterworth, - all over the High-wood and Coney-croft-hanger: this continues a great branching plant the winter through, blossoming about January, and is very ornamental in shady walks and shrubberies.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert