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• […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
• a dull knife tylsä veitsi
• dulls the mirror
• A razor will dull with use.
• Use and custom have so dulled our eyes.
• Those [drugs] she has / Will stupefy and dull the sense a while.
• He drinks to dull the pain.
• This [...] dulled their swords.
• Years of misuse have dulled the tools.
• Pressing on the bruise produces a dull pain.
• the dull earth
• Think me not / So dull a devil to forget the loss / Of such a matchless wife.
• It's a dull day.
• All these knives are dull.
• O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
• This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing.
• She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
• dull at classical learning
• She is not bred so dull but she can learn.
• A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
• As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
• a dull fire or lamp;  a dull red or yellow;  mirror
• Choose a dull finish to hide fingerprints.
• When does having a dull personality ever get you a girlfriend? Even if you get one, how does being dull help you keep a relationship for over a year?
• He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake.