"Tiredness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... across and sat down on one of the wide divans, and so doing began to know, once more, how very tired she was. A new tiredness seemed, indeed, to have been added to the original one. That first was, at worst, bored and irritable. This was of a different, a ...
— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet
... is itself, Manella! 'Bore' is just 'bore.' It means tiredness—worn-out-ness—a state in which you wish yourself in a hot bath or a cold one, so that nobody can come near you. To be 'loved' would finish me ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... not without its humour, while illustrating the tiredness of our men, may be worth recalling. During the bombardment preliminary to the counter-attack, when the noise of our own artillery was deafening, and the proximity of the enemy shelling far from assuring, a platoon commander discovered one of his ...
— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman
... limps, keeps the knee slightly flexed, and complains of tiredness and stiffness after exertion. As the articular surfaces become affected, there is pain, which is readily excited by jarring of the limb, or by any attempt at movement; the joint is held rigid, and there may be startings at night. If untreated, flexion becomes more pronounced—it ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... doze had ended. With its ending, all look of tiredness and suffering had gone away out of the baby face. Instead, the little eyes were eager; the little lips were breaking into a smile of utter joyousness; the little arms were up-stretched strongly, the hands wide open and ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray |
