Harassed

Examples

• Wiley is another case of the creative mind harassed by the routineers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Clennam, harassed by more anxieties than one, was among this devoted band. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Many that want food and clothing have cheerier lives and brighter prospects than she had; many, harassed by poverty, are in a strait less afflictive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am harassed with the girl, and yet I cannot part with her lest I should get a worse. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I say, I can conceive this, if he were under the pressure of hard circumstances--if he had been harassed as I feel sure Lydgate has been. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I won't have you harassed by them: and they will insult you if you stay. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I fear you are harassed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You have quite lost that harassed air which it often pained one to see in your face a few months ago. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It has either presented the business man with money or harassed him with bungling enthusiasm in the pretended interests of the consumer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We trust he has enjoyed ours, but we are harassed with doubts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He has been in the schoolroom issuing commands in a manner which, I suppose, was a continuation of that with which he has harassed you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The fear of failure in these points harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these were no trifles. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned; I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Still her poor were wretched, still their employers were harassed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Sarcasms of which the severity amazed and puzzled me, harassed my ears; then flowed out the bitterest inuendoes against the pride of intellect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I went out very much crestfallen, thinking I would be delayed and harassed in the work which I was anxious to finish, and was doing night and day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Harassed, exhausted, I lay in a half-trance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I have been harassed and persecuted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He looks ill at this moment; but perhaps it is owing to some temporary cause: Dr. John may have been vexed or harassed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Editor: Rodney