Wearied

Warren leaned back against the wall of the rude cabin wearied from the long nervous strain, but listening intently to all that passed. ❋ Pauline Elizabeth (1902)

One afternoon when I crept into this haven, wearied from the feast of sight and sound, a slender, dusky-skinned Ceylonese offered me a cup of fragrant tea. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Then she wandered to her bookshelves, glancing aimlessly over the books; but the very reading of the titles wearied her. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

No wonder if the energies which owed much of their strength to love's nerving, should at last give out, and Fleda's evening be passed in wearied slumbers. ❋ Unknown (1854)

(her to cold; in short, wearied with remonstrances, her patience failed, and she declared in pretty) Tj ❋ Byron (1807)

Many years of living face to face with sheep on their own terms wearied Dry Valley Johnson. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

At the time she was an atheist who was "wearied" by religion and "worn out by years of struggle." ❋ Unknown (2004)

It is apparently intended to enhance the idea of utter weariness, either because the word 'wearied' is in thought to be supplied, 'sat, being thus wearied, on the well'; or because it conveys the notion which might be expressed by our 'just as He was'; as a tired man flings Himself down anywhere and anyhow, without any kind of preparation beforehand, and not much caring where it is that he rests. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

"wearied," as I had arrived early in the afternoon, and could not out of politeness retire and write to you. ❋ Unknown (1867)

He did his best to tread lightly, but in his legs were wearied and he found himself crashing into wood or rope with every other step. ❋ Cromsblood (2009)

No doubt these miserable villagers, with lives barely worth the few boney fish they hauled daily, were superstitious on top of their misery, thinking the wearied traveler a reaper out for their souls, or a ghoul from the deeps hungry for their flesh. ❋ Reis O'Brien (2009)

His face is sweaty, his countenance is wearied, and I can easily see that he's skipped a few meals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

THINK ABOUT IT: Have Catholic lay people -- the vast majority served by good and faithful priests -- wearied of the whole mess? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Enough praise and lauding cannot be lavished upon the stellar medical professionals who patiently gave me a crash course in biology and physics as they painstakingly explained in detail the daunting process and answered a myriad of questions in an attempt to ease my worried and wearied mind. ❋ Paul Kerr (2010)

He never wearied of repeating that "if a man deserts the Chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, does he think that he is in the Church?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think I have wearied most of my audience, judging by the stats, but if you like them then it was worth doing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The delegates also applauded the resurgence of the Chinese people, wearied by so many decades of war. ❋ Raymond Zhong (2011)