Worries

Examples

• Pin-pricks hurt more than cannon balls, and incessant worries are far more painful than great calamities. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Also he worries. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I don't think it's that, Aunt Julia; I've had worries, she replied. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Don't cry, child, it worries me to hear people sniff. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Don't like him, he puts on airs, snubs his sisters, worries his father, and doesn't speak respectfully of his mother. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The worries of the day had been a little too much for me, I suppose. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Pray don't do that,' said he, 'it's of no use doing that: it only worries. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think, added Jo. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In six months you'd be back again among your old worries, or worse ones; and here I am, ready to lift you out of 'em tomorrow if you say so. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• What worries you dear? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I don't try to make them, and it worries me if I don't care for them, though Jo says I haven't got any heart. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Then nothing worries you? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• These worries upset me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It worries me though. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• How happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Can't be helped, Marmee, so you must resign yourself to all sorts of worries, and let your birds hop out of the nest, one by one. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He may have been taking an opiate, was a thought that crossed Mr. Farebrother's mind--tic-douloureux perhaps--or medical worries. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This isn't like Beth, and it worries me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It worries me nearly out of my wits. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Freedom from worries? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But my younger daughter, Mrs General, rather worries and vexes my thoughts. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Seen from yet another angle, the worries of this early work were not merely those of the men on the firing line. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• So many women's worries seem to go straight to their hair--but yours looks as if there had never been an anxious thought under it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Typist: Rowland