1818 Nov. 464/2 Amid the many forms that daily flit Before, my world-tired view, have I essayed To realize this image of the soul.
1901 16 Nov. 701/1 Judging him from his somber thoughts, one would imagine Maeterlinck to be a world-tired hermit who had fathomed the depth of all human woe.
2005 S. Ruos xvi. 201 The whistlelike calls of birds sounded like..a serenade of nature to half the world-tired people.