The young heroine and title character has been married off to her sickly cousin and is trapped in a monotonous existence in her aunt's haberdashery.

Applehead did not resent the invasion; on the contrary, he welcomed it as a pleasant change in his monotonous existence.

To Albanians, these ruptures constituted the only distinctive time pegs in an otherwise monotonous and monochrome existence.

She cries to the gods to give her something radiantly new and different from her monotonous existence.

Hotel rooms can be a bit samey, of course, and I spend a lot of time in the air, or waiting around at airports, but it is not a monotonous existence.

The father of two children and a devoted husband, he does not know how to react to a fortuitous encounter that threatens his monotonous existence.

Here she led a constricted, monotonous existence, broken only by a few trips to the Rhine and Bonn.

Antonio, a young man with a modest job in a small town, leads an ordinary monotonous existence until he is transferred to Barcelona to work in a firm of architects.

On a quest to find meaning in his monotonous existence, Smallcreep experiences many surreal and disturbing situations.

About 1820 he returned to Piacenza, intending to remain there, but soon tired of the monotonous existence of a provincial town, and in 1824 reestablished himself at Rome.