Harassing

Examples

• You must see that it is only harassing me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This influence had become more harassing and decided, since partial insanity had given a strange, weird, unsettled cast to all her words and language. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I would have him die a harassing and lingering death. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I found it rather harassing to live in this state of siege, but was too much afraid of Mrs. Crupp to see any way out of it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She ran to and fro, whiningspringing, harassing little birds amongst the bushes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• If you knew the harassing anxiety that gnaws and wears me when I am wandering in those places--where are those endless places, Mortimer? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The hour spent at Millcote was a somewhat harassing one to me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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