What is "palled"

Usage examples of "palled".

He admired her, for she was very beautiful, but he was a dandy, and her brusqueries palled on him after a time.

But if it palled for me, for -fory and Melodic, it worked its charm on Cindy, who adored her room, her fancy French furniture, her ultra feminine bath with its pink decor enhanced with gold and mossy pale green.

When that palled I would plot the destruction of Gorshkov, that prick on wheels, and the KGB schemer Andropov, whose hobbyhorse this whole bioenergetics farce is, and put an end to it, and get on with the Extremely Low Frequency Broadcaster, just as the Yankees have done.

It was more the overall uncouth monotony of the clocks that palled: _that_, more than the detail work applied to any one of them.

As with Topside’s high rise for unreformed ecstatics and the insufferably blessed, the reality of eternal penance quickly palled.

Then, when the joys of simple physics palled, Jack wanted to know the life cycles of the American lobster and blue crab, which he had studied with his deep-sight as they steamed inside the cooking pit.

They were rowing for dear life when they were ap palled to see the enormous head passing directly beneath their boat.

I started up, afraid that the delights of haute cuisine had palled for Hilda, and then I remembered that She would undoubtedly have come armed with a latchkey.

I applied myself to the work and found it not overtaxing, but the pleasures of sitting on a damp rock watching sheep all day soon palled, and I began to yearn for other ways to occupy myself.

Their dead lay in a perfect square and their colours still flew in the shredding smoke as their last living soldiers stared across a valley stinking with blood and palled by fire, a valley plucked from hell.

The fact was, the novelty of watching nondescript people performing incomprehensible tasks soon palled, zero gravity or not.