| 1. | Encompassed by the massy walls of this venerable academy, I passed, yet not in tedium or disgust, the years of the third lustrum of my life. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | There was something glad in your glance, and genial in your manner, when you conversed I saw you had a social heart it was the silent schoolroom--it was the tedium of your life--that made you mournful. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | Some sensation of voluptuousness and some sensation of tedium these have as yet been their best contemplation. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 4. | What consistency of style and execution can be hoped for from such an attempt or, rather, what bad taste and tedium will not be the infallible resul. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | And verily, it were time that I went away and the wanderer's shadow and the longest tedium and the stillest hour--have all said unto me "It is the highest time. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |