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Definition of Monotonies
1. monotony [n] - See also: monotony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monotonies
Literary usage of Monotonies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My First Holiday; Or, Letters Home from Colorado, Utah, and California. by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1881)
"California offers a series of monotonies, and although I observed that there as
here the wild-flowers knew their season, and asked no leave to be of sun or ..."
2. Oriental Fragments by Edward Moor (1834)
"... out of the subject, I fear to be tiresome with such lengthened monotonies.
IN ENGLAND. HAVING so lately mentioned some of the Hindi- poetics of Ireland, ..."
3. The Guide to Kuan Hua: A Translation of the "Kuan Hua Chin Nan" with an by L. C. Hopkins, Kuan Hua Chin Nan (1895)
"Monotonies in this and the next three groups demand no remark. ... Monotonies.
It deserves noting that in all monotonic groups where a shang sheng is the ..."
4. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"... monotonies of waste and fallow lauds, the plants of early market-garden suddenly
springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of the savage and the ..."
5. Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman (1899)
"... and then transferred him to Rousillon, thence to Puy, and next to Sassenage,
where the monotonies of captivity-were relieved by the delights of love, ..."
6. My First Holiday; Or, Letters Home from Colorado, Utah, and California. by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1881)
"California offers a series of monotonies, and although I observed that there as
here the wild-flowers knew their season, and asked no leave to be of sun or ..."
7. Oriental Fragments by Edward Moor (1834)
"... out of the subject, I fear to be tiresome with such lengthened monotonies.
IN ENGLAND. HAVING so lately mentioned some of the Hindi- poetics of Ireland, ..."
8. The Guide to Kuan Hua: A Translation of the "Kuan Hua Chin Nan" with an by L. C. Hopkins, Kuan Hua Chin Nan (1895)
"Monotonies in this and the next three groups demand no remark. ... Monotonies.
It deserves noting that in all monotonic groups where a shang sheng is the ..."
9. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"... monotonies of waste and fallow lauds, the plants of early market-garden suddenly
springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of the savage and the ..."
10. Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman (1899)
"... and then transferred him to Rousillon, thence to Puy, and next to Sassenage,
where the monotonies of captivity-were relieved by the delights of love, ..."
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