 | 1835 - 610 pages
...for the second year, during so many months. About the middle of August, 1831, the Captain says, — ' We were weary for want of occupation, for want of...even the visits of barbarians were welcome ; or can anything more strongly show the nature of our pleasures than the confession that these were delightful... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Biography - 1854 - 732 pages
...been during an entire year immovable as the ice and the rocks around it, helpless, disobedient, dead? We were weary for want of occupation, for want of...was to-day, so would be to-morrow: while, if there were no variety, no hope of better, is it wonderful that even the visits of barbarians were welcome... | |
 | 1854 - 796 pages
...distant friends and native land, whom we might never again see? Yet there was a pain beyond all this — we were weary for want of occupation, for want of...for want of society. To-day was as yesterday, and as to-day so would be to-morrow. With a sea around us impracticably frozen, one would wish to sleep the... | |
 | University magazine - 1854 - 790 pages
...distant friends and native land, whom we might never again see? Yet there wae a pain beyond all this — we were weary for want of occupation, for want of...for want of society. To-day was as yesterday, and as to-day so would be to-morrow. With a sea around us impracticably frozen, one would wish to sleep the... | |
 | Ireland - 1854 - 788 pages
...distant friends and native land, whom we might never again see? Yet there was a pain beyond all this— we were weary for want of occupation, for want of...not say it ? — for want of society. To-day was as yestcixiay, and as to-day so would be to-morrow. With a sea around us impracticably frozen, one would... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...far-distant friends and native land, whom we might never again see ? Yet there was a pain beyond all this: we were weary for want of occupation, for want of...exertion, for want of thought, and- — why should 1 not say it ? — for want of society. To-day was us yesterday ; and a* to-day, so would be * To the... | |
 | Maurice James Ross - History - 1994 - 476 pages
...England. There was now nothing much else to do but wait for the ice to break up and release the ship. "We were weary for want of occupation, for want of...To-day was as yesterday, and as was to-day, so would be to-morrow."26 The only "society" was that of the Inuit, which they always enjoyed but which this year... | |
 | Jeannette Mirsky - History - 1970 - 400 pages
...sound health and good mind, they were prey to an endless ennui. "We were weary for want of occupation, for want of thought, and (why should I not say it?)...yesterday, and as was today, so would be tomorrow." 9 At last their hope was rewarded: the Victory was moved. Slowly they sailed northward, amid much ice.... | |
 | Fergus Fleming - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 542 pages
...sank into passive dejection: 'We were weary for want of occupation, for want of variety, for want of means of mental exertion, for want of thought, and...yesterday, and as was today, so would be tomorrow.' 27 Christmas came and went, 'the only fact worth remarking [being] a round of beef that had been in... | |
 | Fergus Fleming - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 542 pages
...sank into passive dejection: 'We were weary for want of occupation, for want of variety, for want of means of mental exertion, for want of thought, and...Today was as yesterday, and as was today, so would be tomorrow.'27 Christmas came and went, 'the only fact worth remarking [being] a round of beef that had... | |
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We were weary for want of occupation, for want of variety, for want of the means of mental exertion, for want of thought, and (why should I not say it ?) for want of society. To-day was as yesterday — and as was to-day, so would be to-morrow... 
