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• Thus am I never dull! (8)
• And is it dull? (14)
• But, dull to her? (22)
• Your antics are dull. (10)
• In his presence she was dull. (12)
• A dull silence fell on the room. (12)
• The excitement had left her brain dull. (10)
• The excitement had left her brain dull. (22)
• I am grown learned (after a fashion) and dull. (14)
• He speculated further on the witty and the dull. (10)
• This was in the dull hour antecedent to the dawn. (10)
• Karen looked at him with a dull wonder in her eyes. (12)
• Mrs. Mountstuart groaned over her dull dinner-party. (10)
• A dashing soldier, a quarrelsome duellist, a dull dog. (10)
• So Chummy continues a Protestant; dull consciences can! (10)
• I am told that the English are heavy thinkers and dull talkers. (7)
• The colours seemed dull and the marble without warmth or life. (12)
• The cloaked and dull suspicion weighed within her nevertheless. (10)
• Merthyr kept aloof until the heavy door rolled a long dull sound. (10)
• The eyes were rather dull now, and the mouth was a little withered. (9)
• And can I trace in such dull eyes Of fireside peace or country skies? (10)
• She smiled over the flowers, but her eyes were still dull with tears. (13)
• The eyes, from being an instant ago dull carved balls, were animated. (10)
• The alteration is not in them, if their parties are grown tedious and dull. (4)
• It was as lively and it was as dull as it would be two thousand miles at sea. (9)
• Even here, however, they had the characteristic marks of dull, wholesale labor. (13)
• He is such a charming man, that it is quite a pity he should be so grave and so dull. (4)
• A woman came to her to tell her this, appearing to have a dull desire to get her gone. (10)
• He slept the greater part of the afternoon, and came down rather dull to the early tea. (9)
• His cheeks were puffed, his lips compressed, his swollen face was of a dull, angry red. (8)
• There in the heavens, towards the east, hung a dull red thing, lengthening as they gazed. (8)
• It was as if she had offered her beauty to a glass, and found a reflection in dull metal. (10)
• She felt that from time to time her companion lifted an anxious glance to the dull heavens. (9)
• The first blows of an immense grief are dull, and strike the heart through wool, as it were. (10)
• But, withal, she never lost her queer dull compassion for the owner of that white carved face. (8)
• That is the revenge which dull minds take upon bright ones in resentment of their superiority. (1)
• It was quiet, but it was not dull for Westover, who found himself in no hurry to get back to town. (9)
• She now turned her head a little, so as to pierce the earnest speaker with a gleam from her dull eye. (9)
• His dull white features, sharpened to a vulpine point at the nose and chin, betrayed his temperament. (13)
• How she looked, what she said, he was dull in describing; he thought her lively, though she was pale. (10)
• A characteristic of that upper circle, as he knew it, is, that the good are dull, the vicious very bad. (10)
• His cheeks, white and hollow from too much London, went a curious dull red; he got up and stared at her. (8)
• The white young man bent his dull wink on Thyme, who, wrinkling her nose, was pretending to be far away. (8)
• Was it a craving to be thought distinguished, a dread of being dull, or merely an effect of overfeeding? (8)
• Royal roads are the ways that kings travel, and kings are mostly dull fellows, and rarely have a good time. (9)
• We had drifted for a couple of days through a broad, flat country, and never had experienced a dull moment. (20)
• People judged her a little quiet, dull, and narrow; they compared her to a hen for ever clucking round her chicks. (8)
• So it is that a dull dread of approaching calamity fills every professional heart when the initial storm sets in. (21)
• While she read, her features had been quite dull, but they were fired now with feeling, and the deep eyes burned. (13)
• At the same instant was heard a dull, distant sound like the heavy breathing of some great animal below the horizon. (7)
• Ever and again a little wind went by, and the nuts dropped all around me, with a light and dull sound, upon the sward. (2)
• Squads of soldiers tramping by turned to look and smile, and the dull faces of citizens lighted up at the quaint sight. (9)
• The days and weeks passed, until Carnival was half gone, and Mrs. Lander noticed one day that Clementina appeared dull. (9)
• She could speak her affectionate mind as plain as print, and it was dull print facing me, not the arches of the sunset. (10)
• In the last movement the united lovers leave the dull world behind, and take their flight to regions of eternal sunlight. (3)
• In this main thoroughfare it was not as in the by-street, and only dull or sullen glances, or none at all, were bent on her. (8)
• Varnish manufacturers make grades of varnish which give the dull effect of wax, and these can be used, if desired; but why? (17)
• Far in the rear, Vittoria and Laura heard the cannon-shots; a sullen dull sound, as of a mallet striking upon rotten timber. (10)
• Sedgett turned his dull brown eyes on him, the thick and hateful flush of evil blood informing them with detestable malignity. (10)
• He had seen too much of more vivid colours to be capable now of venerating greatly the dull and dubious tints of blue and yellow. (8)
• There is no streaming movement in broad vistas; the dull looking population moves sluggishly; there is no show of fine equipages. (9)
• Livia has no suspicion, though she thinks me wonderfully contented in so dull a place, where it has rained nine days in a fortnight. (10)
• The rain, which had for hours been a dull drizzle, fell with a copiousness that stifled us; we moved in running water up to our ankles. (7)
• Then she and her aunt went into the large, dull library, where they passed the evenings which Bessie did not spend in some social function. (9)
• We speak of hardships, but the true hardship is to be a dull fool, and permitted to mismanage life in our own dull and foolish manner. (2)
• During the next few days she sometimes appeared more cheerful and docile, sometimes more dull and troubled than her household companions had ever seen her. (5)

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