More of a bore

Usage examples of duller.

You were baptized Ursula, but called Tulla from the start, a nickname probably derived from Thula the Koshnavian water nymph, who lived in Osterwick Lake and was written in various ways: Duller, Tolle, Tullatsch, Thula or Dul, Tul, Thul.

Day, a legendary leather bridge, two sacks full of yellow gold from the days of the Hussite incursions, and a capricious water nymph: Thula Duller Tul.

When he had to mount guard at night behind Meat Depot 2, and drowsiness hit him behind the knees with the flat of its hand, he awakened himself rhythmically: Duller Duller, Tulla!

I am inclined to attribute it to a certain frame of mind, an awareness of suspicious circumstances that elude persons of duller wit.

As in a novel, the more pure invention there is the duller we find it, so here the more like truth, the error appears the better.

I asked Mrs Belflower and Sukey about them and what they told me seemed duller and yet in a way stranger than my inventions.

I am less often bored than I was in childhood between dull game and duller book.

It sported a much duller sheen than its larger relative and was no more than a couple of inches tall.