Word: dulle
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...work is thoroughly reliable, and loses nothing of its value as a legal production on account of the lively style in which much of it is written. The brightness of the style does not dull the point of the phrase. The publishers of the work are Calahan and Co., of Chicago...
...most magnificent nature. This is the joint work of Brander Matthews and George Jessop and is numbered among the most legitimate of Mr. Goodwin's successes, and it is rarely that a more pleasing comedy is presented. It is at once clean, wholesome, pathetic and merry, without a dull scene in it. The plot is well sustained throughout, and culminates joyously, enlisting the fine sympathies of one's nature and sends the audience away with a sense of keen and clean delight. "In Mizzoura" is well known, having been produced more recently than "The Gold Mine," and those who remember...
...have one Chinaman assigned to him, for whom he is solely responsible. The teaching is slow and sometime tedious in spite of the interest shown by the pupil and needs a patient teacher who will make it a point not to miss a single meeting. But when the apparently dull pupil has once mastered the elements of the language, then the progress is rapid, the Chinaman soon takes up the Bible, and well prepared by patient love of his teacher, he is readily led to grasp the truths of the Christian religion...
Thus it is that the beautiful fades gradually out of nature and life becomes dull and prosaic to dull and prosaic...
...Lorna Doone we have a book which charms us all at first reading but which we would not care to read through a second time. It is beautiful but to a certain extent dull...