The picture of studying law as a wearisome task in which lots of dull rules and regulations have to be memorised is a distorted one.

Mental digestion is a wearisome task; you are welcome to it.

Niamh had been at work for many hours at the hot and wearisome task of turning the spit upon which our dinner meat was cooked over a slow fire.

In principal we know what to do, but it's a fairly wearisome task, and it can be very frustrating.

To hear doleful singing and organ accompaniment, denotes you are nearing a wearisome task, and probable loss of friends or position.

It was a wearisome task, taxing even the disciplined ivets.

Not only were Weston and Delmot taking on a wearisome task; they were seeking negative evidence, only.

But before I had finished this wearisome task, the cheque arrived out of the blue.

Lower-tech themes explore implied physical burdens and metaphors of wearisome tasks.

Never, never before, did I have such a wearisome task!