What is "exhausting"

Usage examples of "exhausting".

For Bazil it was an exhausting ordeal, and his energy reserves were already low.

All day spent with books has a rather exhausting effect on the mind, and he used to enjoy the fresh air sweeping up the dark Brooklyn streets, meditating some thought that had sprung from his reading, while Bock sniffed and padded along in the manner of an elderly dog at night.

Happily there was not much of this exhausting work, for, just as higher and darker ranges, densely wooded with cryptomeria, began to close us in, we emerged upon a fine new road, broad enough for a carriage, which, after crossing two ravines on fine bridges, plunges into the depths of a magnificent forest, and then by a long series of fine zigzags of easy gradients ascends the pass of Yadate, on the top of which, in a deep sandstone cutting, is a handsome obelisk marking the boundary between Akita and Aomori ken.

Whether a discord is too violent or no, depends on what we have been accustomed to, and on how widely the new differs from the old, but in no case can we fuse and assimilate more than a very little new at a time without exhausting our tempering power - and hence presently our temper.

Barsomian Eighth Ray in great quantities, and, by exhausting it rapidly earthward, propelled the vessel toward Mars.

The leak gained on them as the oakum of the first successful fothering worked through the leak, and the passing of a new sail was a slow, exhausting business that had little evident result: the Leopard drove eastward and a little south under small sail in a rising wind, pumping day and night.

But exhausting as the train ride was, it was as nothing when compared to the last stages of the trip which they made, first by public carrier to Lairg, then onward in the family brougham that had been sent from Dunphaedair to meet them.

Only after completely exhausting herself, and then as a last resort, would she go to Madame Leotard and ask her help with some problem she had not succeeded in solving herself.

Day Oners had grudgingly agreed to the deal provided that the central theme of the curriculum was dirty, exhausting work.

Can be isolated by first saponifying the oil, and then exhausting the resulting soap with ether.

How typical of Michael to do something exhausting like bolt back to Skoal at the crack of dawn.

The number of errors has risen since 1996, when President Clinton made it tougher for death row inmates to prove their innocence by signing into law a one-year limit on the time inmates have to appeal to federal courts after exhausting their appeals in state courts.

She was still peacefully asleep in his bed, looking cool, clean, unpained, uninjured, and very beautiful, while he, having spent a dirty and exhausting three hours in her behalf, still had to strip off his filthy clothes and wash himself with icy water in a cold room before he could go to bed.

No night working in a noisy pub, no back-aching hauling of food up flights of stairs, no squeezing through tiny narrow corridors without upsetting trays of food had ever been half as exhausting as this.

He was badly bruised from the beating he had received when he had been ambushed, and, controlling the hell-hound had been as exhausting as riding a high-spirited thoroughbred.