Dog Weary

"Let it be tonight," says the hidden chap, and his voice was dog-weary. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

He was even more demonstrative an hour later, when I was summoned to his presence just as I was on the point of turning in, and found him sitting on the edge of his bed in his dressing-gown, glass in hand, cigar at the high port, plainly dog-weary but content at having laboured well in the vineyard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How many nights have we marched under the light of moon and stars, sleepy and dog-weary, in song or in silence, as the mood prompted us or the orders compelled us, up to the trenches and back again! ❋ Patrick MacGill (1926)

For two days and a night she ran before it; but this of course is a seaman's phrase, and actually, fast as the wind hurled her forward, she lagged back against it until she wallowed in its wake, and her crew gave thanks and crept below to their bunks, too dog-weary to put off their sodden clothes. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

"We are in no posture to fight, it is certain, being drenching wet, dog-weary, and three-parts frozen; but, for the love of old England, what aileth them to shoot thus cruelly on their poor country people in distress?" ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

"I tell you, I am fair dog-weary!" quoth Dame Elizabeth. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

"Sure there's nought to weep for this even, without thou art so dog-weary that thou canst not keep them back." ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

I would whip thee till I was dog-weary, whatever thou shouldst be. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

Now he’s at ease as he approaches his end, but I’m dog-weary. ❋ May, Julian (2003)