c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 75. Weryles I walke ay in trouble and travaile, Ever travilyng without werynes.
1608. Hieron, Defence, II. 184. Will ever any man but a wearylesse wrangler … affirme and stand to it, that wisdome is taken diversely here.
1799. Sheridan, Pizarro, I. i. With weariless remonstrance he sued to win me from my purpose.
1813. Hogg, Queen’s Wake, I. (1814), 5. How came yon white doves from the window to fly, And hover on weariless wing to the sky?
1879. Lowell, Mem. Poems, To W. L. Garrison, 42. O small beginnings, ye are great and strong, Based on a faithful heart and weariless brain!
1886. Blackmore, Springhaven, ix. The weariless tide came up and lifted the bedded keel.
1906. Times Lit. Suppl., 30 Nov., 402/2. A sturdy Dissenter, a weariless promoter of Godliness.
Hence Wearilessly adv.
1791. J. Collinson, Hist. Somerset, III. 610. A headland known to mariners by the name of Anchor-head, where a huge disjointed rock, called Bearn-Back, is wearilessly combated by the waves.
1893. F. Adams, New Egypt, 192. He opposed openly and wearilessly the ruinous policy of his master.
