Such a simple phrase, yet one that bore a semantic power, an intensity of meaning-far beyond its basic symbolic capacity.

But then Mehryls' taut run bore him beyond the scream, took him straight toward the gap in the cliffs.

Without desire, women bored me beyond all expectation, and obviously I bored them too.

A welcome one, for events of the day are boring beyond belief.

I was bored beyond belief, and plotting how to escape to see the world.

Those men were completely unarmored and bore no weapons of any kind beyond knives.

Heinrici, bored beyond belief, sat silently, letting the words flow over him.

The king looked at me over his tented fingers, seemingly bored beyond boredom.

That is one reason why so many athletes' biographies are boring beyond endurance.

As if Teilani bore a burden far beyond her years.