The unexciting people, maybe, but the safe home-building ones with old ideals and old hearthstones.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
Have we not kept them loitering here among these hills, wasting the strength that was meant to tell in the quivering fibres of men, on senseless trees and stones, paralyzing them with famine, wearying them with unexciting, inglorious toil, until, divided and dispirited, at last we can measure our power with theirs, and fight, not in vain?
"The Bride of Fort Edward"
Delia Bacon
But the situations, though not those of scenical distress, are so far from being unexciting, that, on the contrary, they are too powerfully afflicting.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey