A very boring duty, she'd thought, but an excuse to wear the scarlet-lined formal cape which she liked in spite of herself.

Trout surmised that the guards were celebrating the end of their boring duty on this lonely outpost.

Now it's a long, boring duty, and you have lots of time to think.

That's why time really does fly when you're having fun, but drags on if you're involved in some boring duty.

(If you wanted to try a similar experiment in your own workplace, I would suggest equally boring duties such as tax compliance.)

Thanking me for sticking him with the most boring duty on or off planet.

The rest of my career was sleep synch, exercise and practice in an empty room, and boring duty.

It was a boring duty, which we usually enlivened by playing pato1i with jumping beans.

So the guards had three squares a day and quiet boring duty that would dull their senses.

Besides, Nell's just about to go and do her boring duty by the wedding party.