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Example sentences for "duller"

Lexicographically close words:
dull; dullard; dullards; dulle; dulled; dullest; dulling; dullness; dulls; dully
  1. On the very evening of Gorman's dinner with the King I happened to meet Sir Bartholomew Bland-Potterton at another, a much duller dinner party.

  2. A much duller man than Gorman would not have failed to discover that Phillips was deeply in love with the young Queen of Salissa.

  3. Right Spirit of the Original; No scatter'd Spark, no glimmering Beams, As in some Pieces here and there, Through a dark Glade of Duller Numbers gleams.

  4. Twas here my Soul more true content receiv'd, Then all the Duller hours of Life I'd liv'd.

  5. Or who the Duller Slaves that first believ'd?

  6. If we are duller to-morrow than we are to-day we will hear the rest of the story, but I don't think I like it very much.

  7. Underneath the dull eyes, duller than common, were livid hollows, and he shook from head to foot in a nervous terror.

  8. Much against my will, I acceded to his request, and the story seemed to get longer and longer and duller and duller in the telling.

  9. Said to be slightly larger and duller colored than the Oregon Junco; eggs the same.

  10. This paler and duller colored variety is common on the Pacific coast; its habits and nests and eggs are like those of the last.

  11. This variety is much duller colored than the last and has but little brown on the back; its nesting habits are the same and the eggs do not appear to differ in any respect from those of the eastern bird.

  12. This duller colored variety has the same nesting habits and similar eggs to those of the Coast Wren-tit.

  13. The eggs of this bird, which is said to be smaller and duller colored than the northern variety, show no differences in any respect.

  14. Said to be duller colored and darker than the others.

  15. Guadalupe Island off Lower California Resembles the Pink-sided Junco but is smaller, darker and duller colored.

  16. Similar to the Pink-sided Junco but duller colored; eggs probably the same.

  17. The nesting habits and eggs of this slightly smaller and duller colored variety are like those of the other Hermit Thrushes.

  18. This species is similar to, but duller in plumage than the Western Flycatcher.

  19. It is nearly impossible to be duller than Wordsworth at his dullest, and unluckily it is as impossible to find a poet of anything like his powers who has given himself the license to be dull so often and at such length.

  20. Girls are very complicated human beings, if indeed they can be classified thus--though perhaps some men's lives would be duller if they were simpler.

  21. The female is duller above than the male, and below is brownish gray.

  22. The female is duller than the male, but is too like him to be mistaken for the mate of any other Warbler, while he is in a class by himself.

  23. The male, with his conspicuous crest and bright colors, can be confused with no other species; the female is much duller and the crest is less prominent but still evident.

  24. The orange breast, fiery in the spring male, duller in the female and fall males, is distinctive.

  25. Outer tail-feathers white near the end; two white wing-bars; female duller than the male.

  26. In the northern part of its range, the Orchard Oriole is somewhat less common, and more local than the Baltimore Oriole, while its duller colors and more retiring habits make it more difficult to see.

  27. Fifteen minutes in Brazil, then treatment with nitro-muriate of tin and immediate washing gives a duller and deeper red than the first red-cloth stain.

  28. Pinks of a different and duller full tone may be obtained by immersion for three minutes in Brazil water stain, followed by treatment with nitro-muriate of tin; when the Brazil is used for six minutes a deeper colour results.

  29. A cheaper but duller colour is to be obtained from steeped French berries, then dried, with weak alum water brushed over it.

  30. Young birds are generally duller and lighter coloured than adults.

  31. The tail of the young is not so forked as in the adult, and the general plumage duller coloured all over.

  32. He soars 'Bove wind and fire; gets to the moon, and pores With scorn upon her duller face; for she Gives him but shadows and obscurity.

  33. That was duller work than I expected: but luckily we were attacked by a pirate; half the crew were butchered, the rest captured.

  34. That was duller work than I expected; but luckily we were attacked by a pirate,--half the crew were butchered, the rest captured.

  35. If more common to the earlier and simpler tribes than to the men of your duller age, it is but that, with the first, the senses are more keen and quick.

  36. Literature must always be a pointing out of what is interesting in life; but these books are duller than the life they represent.

  37. His graphic descriptions of these scenes are so familiar to the million that I will not venture to go behind his brilliant fictions in search of actual historical facts of duller interest.

  38. The serpentine formation is said to begin at the Manacles, a chain of rocks near Falmouth; but the marble of the Manacles is not true serpentine, being a much duller green, unrelieved by the bright red and purple tints.

  39. That star, that at your birth shone out so bright, It stained the duller sun's meridian light, Did once again its potent fires renew.


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