Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecturer spoke as foilows: The Mahabharata, the grandest poem in Indian literature, dates back about 2000 years. It is a mere jumble of episodes, some tedious, some ridiculous, and some as noble and musical as the best parts of Homer. The poem contains 220.000 lines, with 18,000 supplementary ones, and is held in such high honor by Indians that it is learned by heart. The Indians sit around some Brahmin, and consider it one of the greatest boons to listen to him recite episode after episode. The metre is easily mastered and therefore easily imitated; this quality...
...finally he agrees to leave his kingdom and to live with his four brothers and his wife in the forest for thirteen years. After thirteen years of incredible adventures they all return and fighting begins. The war is described interestingly for 100 pages, the other 1000 are extremely tedious. Udostheera is victorious, but had to commit a sin to gain complete victory. He returns in triumph to the great joy of all the inhabitants...
Another important change is the holding of a preliminary meeting for wrestling. In former years the long trial bouts have been exceedingly tedious, and have often exhausted the contestants before the final bouts. This year only the final bouts will be wrestled at the regular meeting, and the result will be a more interesting meeting and better wrestling...
...association if a sufficient supply of all perishable things on the list is kept on hand, or if only a little is provided as is now done those alone who order first can be served and the annoying answer "all out" is the only result of the long and tedious waiting of those who order afterwards, Now almost every man in the hall would be willing to give up the order list, or at least to have the number of articles on it lessened if the general fare could be greatly improved by doing so, as in most cases extras...
...first treating of political economy proper; the second applying the principles of the science to the various questions of the day. We have long felt that some such book was needed. Neither Faucet nor Walker possesses the elements of a good textbook. Except to the most devoted, Mill becomes tedious through his many details, besides being antiquated in several points. For the students of Political Economy I, therefore, Prof. Laughlin's books will be a great aid. They will find there, stated in clear and forcible language, Mr. Mill's conclusions and the reasoning upon which they are based, together...