dog-weary

Example Sentences

• "O master, master, I have watched so long / That I am dog-weary, but at last I spied […]"
• ""He is a very dog to the community", and I am grown quite "dog-weary" of hearing of his fame."
• "Many hours later the raiders were still retreating before the squadron from Mia Khan Killa: they had lost heavily, with no gain to show, and their leader would have a nasty time at the "rendezvous" in the morning: all were dog-weary, and perhaps they moved with less precaution than usual: the meeting-place was near water, of course, but there was no absolute reason why they should all be around it at the same time, and of all bad times for carelessness just when day was lighting up the valleys: there was a lot of weary talk about a new leader, accompanied by a considerable amount of cursing the old one—although they did not know it he had already paid the price, he was the last man shot in the tower."
• "While at times he is dog weary, at other times he is dog tired and often Dog-gone."
• "Was it the child for whom he had longed or was it the woman herself who had turned him into this hagged, heavy-eyed, dog-weary man who could not rest until they were returned to him?"
• "Tracy was flagging. She had read somewhere that shops and museums were the most tiring places for people. The kid looked dog-weary."