I heard the cook mumblingly scolding about "noises in the night, dogs barking and doors shutting, she knew; such a house as it was, with people dying, getting sick, and putting every sort of a bothersome dream into a quiet body's head, that wanted to rest, just as she worked, like a Christian."

One is pardoned; the other escapes; and then knights, empires, nature,the whole universe follows their desperate efforts to win one small maiden, who prays meanwhile to be delivered from both her bothersome suitors.

While as a rule he refused to let anything like bitterness dwell in his heart, still, this was a case where everything was at stake; and if the bothersome revolutionists kept chasing them in the biplane they were apt to give a great deal of trouble.

There isn't another American-built aeroplane that I fear except that bothersome kids' machine.

Axel had no long time to rest at home, as it turned out; the autumn gales led to fresh trouble and bothersome work that he had brought upon himself: the telegraph apparatus on his wall announced that the line was out of order.

In the whole range of dog ailments included in the term canine pathology there are none more bothersome to treat successfully nor more difficult to diagnose than those of the skin.

The English and French could not force the Dardanelles; no more could they advance on land, and now that the submarines had arrived, the fleet, which had been bothersome, would be taken care of.

I knew Mr. Remsen ten years ago, and a more bothersome lad we never had.

Sonny is a bothersome child one way: he don't never want to take his dinner to school with him.

"She might send after and ask a lot of bothersome questions.

The Hoffs' affairs had assuredly taken a new and bothersome turn, over which Fleck sat puzzling many minutes.

"I suppose she thinks I'm a ninny, just because I don't understand this bothersome city; but I reckon I know a thing or two, if I don't live in New York!"

They're little and contemptible, but if yer make a slip It must be bothersome

A free-sheeter is a better vehicle, less expensive and less bothersome to handle than a 'flier' inserted in a newspaper for local distribution.

Because the social laws are so arranged that a woman's only sphere is marriage, and because they endeavour to secure a man who can give them a little more ease, you must not run away with the idea that it is yourself they are angling for, when you are only the bothersome appendage with which they would have to put up, for the sake of your property.

That miserable Dave Cowan's taught it some new rigmaroleno meaning to it, but bothersome when you want to be quiet.

The sand-flies were bothersome at night, coming through the interstices in the ordinary mosquito-nets.

While in the water trying to help with an upset canoe I had by my own clumsiness bruised my leg against a boulder; and the resulting inflammation was somewhat bothersome.

" The person addressed looked up from her work, grinned a broad Irish grin, pushed back a lock of bothersome hair with a soapy hand, and answered heartily: "To be shure ye may, Misther Brown.

It's bothersome, though, that the Government should choose just our busiest season to take the men out for a holiday!"

Any scruple on the girl's part will be relentlessly and carelessly brushed aside as a bothersome insect.

What then?" The man scratched his head, contemplating William as he might some illegible sign-post set up at an unusually bothersome cross-road.

He posed to himself and others as tremendously gratified at being left alone and not having to answer any bothersome questions.

It was his first visit to the South, and the mosquitoes were so bothersome that he was unable to sleep, while at the same time he could hear his friend snoring audibly.

You cannot imagine how bothersome it is to go fishing with a gilly to wait on you.