ennuye

The crowd may be a little 'ennuye' of sun-strokes, and to that degree indifferent, but they most likely know that they can only do harm by an expression of sympathy, and so they delegate their pity as they have delegated their helpfulness to the proper authority, and go about their business.

Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells 1878

'ennuye' of sun-strokes, and to that degree indifferent, but they most likely know that they can only do harm by an expression of sympathy, and so they delegate their pity as they have delegated their helpfulness to the proper authority, and go about their business.

Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

That's what he supposed he was, ennuye, bored in a thoroughly French way.

Yalta Pas de Deux Andrew Stancek 2011

“O, but one is never affronted with an ennuye, if he is ever so provoking, because one always knows what it means.”

Cecilia 2008

I know it is hard for a man to change his habits; but I can with truth say this for myself, that I was happy at Allington, enjoying every hour of the day, and that here I am _ennuye_ by everybody and nearly by everything.

The Small House at Allington 2004

Yet not an hour had elapsed before I began to feel slightly ennuye — to feel a shade of regret that no one was present to see me in my splendid position.

Youth 2003

You must open your doors to your friend at all hours; if when inside it suit him to sing, sing he will; and until you learn solitude in a crowd, or the art of concentration, you are apt to become ennuye and irritable.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Life for the younger set in Cherryvale was so bourgeois, so ennuye.

Missy Dana Gatlin

-- Yet I know not how it is, but, as I have before observed to you, I do not ennuye -- my mind is constantly occupied, though my heart is vacant -- curiosity serves instead of interest, and I really find it sufficiently amusing to conjecture how long my head may remain on my shoulders.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

You must forgive me if I ennuye you a little sententiously -- I was more partial to the lower ranks of life in France, than to those who were deemed their superiors; and I cannot help beholding with indignant regret the last asylums of national morals thus invaded by the general corruption.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady