There have been a wearisomely large number of precedents in history.

Pearl had not found the hour pass wearisomely, while her mother sat talking with the clergyman.

They both lived on money of their own, and were wearisomely idle and over-dressed.

But, to keep this lament from getting wearisomely long, I'll mention only one other - also sort-of-equine - figure of speech.

The luck went wearisomely back and forth.

And lest that plaint sound wearisomely academic, consider that Harold Bloom's "Anxiety of Influence" and John Rawls's "Theory of Justice" both began life as relatively obscure monographs.

Whether or not Michael Glover was the breed of reviewer Ness had in mind, he resisted the novel as 'curious and wearisomely long', being especially doubtful about its 'looming elements of the fantastical' (Spectator).

They distributed the packages as fairly as they could, though Bilbo thought his lot was wearisomely heavy, and did not at all like the idea of trudging for miles and miles with all that on his back.

If he had had any journal advocating "his cause," any organ, as the phrase is, monotonously and wearisomely playing the same old tune, and then passing round the hat, it would have been fatal to his efficiency.

Phonics experts say that many children must be explicitly, systematically and sometimes even wearisomely taught the sounds that words are made of, known as phonemes; the correspondence between these sounds and the letters that represent them; and the way in which sounds blend to form words.

Andrew Marr, former editor of The Independent, which like the Berliner Zeitung was taken over by David Montgomery, said of the Berliner Zeitung that "[a]nyone who was working at The Independent in the mid to late Nineties will find all this wearisomely familiar.

From his black medical bag Dr. Todt brought several bottles, a flat tin, a number of folders of free samples of the sort distributed by the large ethical pharmaceutical houses in incredible numbers all over the world, new drugs as yet untested and not on the market; he had, wearisomely, always been interested in the latest in medications.