Equally interesting is the response of a farm woman with "only the dreary routine of household cares to occupy my mind."

It was immediately obvious that the siege had been going on for some time now, and that dreary routine had become the norm.

Now that the probe was under way, the three and a half hours it would take for the AUV to reach the bottom were simply a dreary routine.

This time, somebody droned through a dreary, duty-officer routine.

Erich's "dialogue" was to be a welcome diversion from our dreary routine.

I combed the job market, as they used to say, but it was a dreary and useless routine.

A decade ago, Fredrik Johansson decided that he'd had enough of this dreary routine.

Now that the mail doesn't arrive until lunchtime, it's merely a dispiriting reminder that my day has once again settled into its dreary, conventional routine.

I need things to think about, Olaf, not just all the dreary routine of women.

Yet something has happened to break the dreary routine of party politics and economic difficulties.