a. (UN-1 7.)
1800. Mrs. Hervey, Mourtray Fam., I. 7. There is little to keep up its energy in the uneventful tenour of domestic life.
1862. Gifts & Graces, xxv. 249. There is little to tell, for their uneventful lives are gliding on as usual.
1890. W. J. Gordon, Foundry, 167. We have said enough to show that its story has not been uneventful.
Hence Uneventfully adv., -fulness.
1865. Cornh. Mag., April, 405. The two next days passed quietly and uneventfully.
1872. Howells, Wedding Journ. (1892), 192. They rattled uneventfully down … by rail.
1878. Grosart, H. More’s Poems, Introd. p. ix. The uneventfulness outwardly of the ‘Life’ accounts for the few facts given.
