Plaguing
[pleɪg]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plague
Checker: Wilbur
Examples
- She was a poor, empty-headed, spiritless woman--what you call a born drudge--and I was now and then not averse to plaguing her by taking Anne away. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My cousins have been so plaguing me! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Begin to do something now by not plaguing his life out, said Meg sharply. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And he jumped on the bus, and I saw his ugly face leering at me with a wicked smile to think how he'd had the last word of plaguing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There's nothing I like better than plaguing you--you're so like your mother, and I must do without it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The men got in the habit of plaguing him; and, finally, one day he said to the assembled experimenters in the top room of the laboratory: 'The next man that does it, I will kill him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Wilbur