Troubling

Examples

• Now, can we find justice without troubling ourselves about temperance? Plato. The Republic.
• HE won't be troubling me this morning, Jos thought, with his dandified airs and his impudence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I ask your pardon for troubling you, sir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Good morning, reddleman, she said, hardly troubling to lift her heavily shaded eyes to his. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I'll let her a little blood, without troubling the doctor, if she's took that way again,' said Sikes. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It is not worth troubling so good a heart as yours with. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Nothing worth troubling you with. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He will not thank you for troubling him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Thoughts were troubling me which I might have told her if we had spoken together longer, and which it might have been dangerous for her to know. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The dry, sharp cough, which teases him at most times, seemed to be troubling him more incessantly than ever. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My dear fellow, said Herbert, let the near prospect of our separation--for, it is very near--be my justification for troubling you about yourself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious occasion; but I forbear troubling myself or you any further. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• When I first got away from home I thought this place was not worth troubling about. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• So far from troubling you with any new confidence, I merely wish to remind you what the old one was. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Edited by Gillian