Le charme de la nouveaute¤  , peu a'   peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a'   nu l'e¤  ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me"  mes formes et le me"  me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Madame Bovary, pt.2, ch.12.

He said that, by god,D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly- tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

-Gibbons, Stella Dorothea
  Mr Mybug, proposing to Rennet. Cold Comfort Farm, ch.20.

There is in Kean, an infinite variety of talent, with a certain monotony of genius.

-Hazlitt,William
  Of the actor Edmund Kean. In The Examiner,10 Dec.

There is no manner of doubt that a town surrounded by water is a very fine sight; but a town surrounded by land is much finer.Can there be any comparison in point of beauty, between the dull monotony of a watery surface, and the delightful variety of gardens, meadows, hills and woods ?

-Moore,John
c.1780  A View of Society and Manners in Italy.

O te¤  dio e¤   a grande enfermidade da escola, o te¤  dio corruptor que tanto se pode gerar da monotonia do trabalho como da ociosidade. Tedium is the worst disease in schools, the corrupting tedium that comes equally from monotony, work or leisure.

-Pompe¤  ia, Raul d'Avila
  O Atene¤  u ('The Atheneum'), ch.7.

Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-clouds thundrous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass isgreen, lakes damp, and mountains steep And,Wordsworth, both are thine.

-Stephen,J(ames) K(enneth)
  Lapsus Calami,'A Sonnet'.