Brothers danced like half-crazed bohunks on speed, swung their life-weary arms to the wail of Denver. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Though their bodies slumped with young agitation, their faces betrayed a life-weary cynicism that aged them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I stared at the woman's hard, life-weary face with intensity. ❋ Unknown (2006)
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary. ❋ Miller, Walter M. (1959)
All the same, they invariably appeared at the depot to witness this event, stirring to others no doubt, but incapable of arousing the interest of these life-weary youths. ❋ Ethel Hueston (N/A)
It was just another such a blue, so she thought, as she had seen on the morning of what was to have been her wedding day, when, heavy-eyed and life-weary, she had crept to the window of her room; then the gladness of the day appeared so indifferent to her sorrow that she had raged hopelessly, helplessly, at the ill fortune which had over - ridden her. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The pale life-weary young man was alone with the sweet womanly savage. ❋ A. Ethelwyn Wetherald (1898)
He shifted his hand to her head, which she dropped suddenly, with a life-weary sigh, against his side. ❋ Henry Lawson (1894)
Who shall forget those terrible words of the poor life-weary orphan in the boarding-house? ❋ Unknown (1892)
The second scene reproduces the corresponding incident in Gounod's opera -- Faust in his study, life-weary and despondent. ❋ Henry Edward Krehbiel (1888)
In a twinkling the life-weary sage is transformed into a young man, full of eager and impatient strength. ❋ Henry Edward Krehbiel (1888)
Eyes, starry with a radiant love-light, had laughed into his; around his neck the twining of arms, and the soft, caressing touch of soothing hands upon his life-weary head; the whisper of love-tones, deep, burning, tremulous, into his ear. ❋ Bertram Mitford (1884)
I would draw down that life-weary head till it rested on my breast; I would wind my arms round your neck and whisper into your tired ear words of comfort, and of soothing, and of love. ❋ Bertram Mitford (1884)
The former retiring and life-weary Abbot had with great effect developed the necessary strength for his duties. ❋ August Strindberg (1880)
Young as he still was for one who had reigned twenty-four years, Alexander was of all men the most life-weary. ❋ Charles Alan Fyffe (1868)
When she did this and looked at the hand, she also knew how life-weary the young eyes were that stared out into the distance, how pain quivered through every feature of the delicate face, how pale it was beneath its suffering, and how the blue veins showed at the temples beneath the soft skin. ❋ Anna [Translator] Grabow (1866)
Amalfi brings back to us the naval and commercial prosperity of the early middle ages; if Pæstuni remains a monument of the oldest Hellenic civilisation; Capri, at a few miles 'distance, is dedicated to the Roman emperor who made it his favourite residence, when, life-weary with the world and all its shows, he turned these many peaks and slumbering caves into a summer palace for the nursing of his brain-sick phantasy. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
Age? she might have been a hundred and fifty years old, to judge by the life-weary set of her features. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)
