Bothering

Examples

• Private enterprise, therefore, so far from bothering about the public need of housing, did nothing but corner and speculate in rents and sub-letting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had seen them shot and left to swell beside the road, nobody bothering to do more than strip them of their cartridges and their valuables. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Without bothering to THINK to a conclusion, Gerald jumped to a conclusion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It wouldn't have been bothering me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Now do be still, and stop bothering. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Now, Doctor, don't you come bothering around me with that dictionary bosh. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Let them have the consistency and good sense to cease bothering about men if men's desires seem intrinsically evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Instead of bothering with bolts and bars for their dwellings, the red Martians simply run them up out of harm's way during the night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I don't want to be bothering you one time after another, but to get things once for all into the right channel. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And I shouldn't have done it, either, only he keeps on bothering me so till I don't know what to do! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If Amy is bothering, I'll shake her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And if you come here bothering about your Bill, I'll make an example of both your Bill and you, and let him slip through my fingers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Typed by Doreen