Early in his career, he'd look out at his students and see nothing but the "gray eyes" of bored children.

These days, the bored children of hard-pressed parents don't fight in the Stars community park and don't cut through the vegetable gardens.

She was swinging her legs like a bored child waiting to go outside and play.

Spending 18 hours in cramped, dilapidated quarters with two bored young children wasn't the least of our discomfort.

She passed such times as fitfully as a bored child.

The smiles of bored children living on an isolated base somewhere, after they had been told the circus was coming to town.

There was the bus station, its bench loaded with bored children.

One day she found herself with two bored visiting children to entertain.

The other will concern five bored children on a Saturday.

This was no good for a bored child.