And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd...." Even with the plague and Brother Paul raging at the missioneven with everyone preoccupied by the claims of dead and dying, the Boy would have been glad to prolong his stay had it not been for "nagging" thoughts of the Colonel.

You're simply driving me to my grave with your continual nagging and abuse and fault-finding.

And Angeline, fretted and nervous, herself worried almost sick over Father's condition, was guilty once in a while out of the depths of her anxiety of nagging back again.

She avoided him as much as possible, but she was forced to meet him at the family breakfast, a meal of a cold and dismal character, generally partaken of by the amiable family in a morose and gloomy silence or to an accompaniment of irritable and nagging personal criticism.

She was a model wife and mother, and this, too, she knew; so did her family and friends, for this subject was second in her topics of conversation only to the state of her health; and, furthermore, she was peculiar and almost original in the perfection to which she had brought the fine art of nagging.

" Andy preferred loneliness up stairs to nagging down stairs.

Think of his living with nagging Mrs. Popham and his stupid daughter and son in that tiny house, and being happy as a king.

There was a senator, Gnæus Domitius Corbulo, who had noticed that the roads during the reign of Tiberius were in bad condition and was always nagging the road commissioners about it and furthermore kept making a nuisance of himself before the senate regarding the matter.

Every one could see she's a nagging woman.

I believe, as a general thing, more children are spoiled by what the Scotch graphically call 'nagging' than by indulgence.

He's been nagging at me for a week and he's going away to-morrow.

Paula and father and I, in a sort of awkward triangle, all doing our best and all nagging one another.

And weaving in and out, and above, and about and through it all, like a neuralgic toothache that can't be located, persisted the constant, nagging, maddening complaints of the Chronic Kicker in six-eighteen.

Kent fought it as long as he could, making sure that the smoking-compartment liars' club would be in session; but when the demand became a nagging insistence, he found his pipe and tobacco and went to the men's room.

Night before last, after Mr. Loring went away, I sat it out with the telephone, nagging poor Mr. Hildreth for news until I know he wanted to murder me.

Liszt was never especially philosophical under fault-finding, and to have a fireside critic after him, nagging him day and night, must have soured all the milk of human kindness in his heart.

According to Belart, Minna was the inspiration for Wotan's virtuous but nagging wife Fricka!

A nagging termagant, who keeps her husband in petticoat subjection.

Léontine's constant nagging had borne fruit, after all, in that it had at least taught him to bite down on his words, and to smile at provocation.

"Hah, then," says he, "that tedious dear nagging woman and that priceless snub-nosed brat may not be real.

Was she to turn into a nagging wife!

Mr. Gosse's book ought not to be read in a fierce, nagging spirit which demands, What is the good of this?

Although the nagging spirit before referred to is to be deprecated, it is sometimes amusing to lose your temper with your own hobby.

" This was perfectly true; Mrs. Melcombe and Laura were not of the nagging order of women, they never said sarcastic or ill-natured things to one another, the foibles of the one suited the other; and if they had a few uncomfortable words now and then between themselves, they had enough esprit de corps to hide this from all outsiders.

The most usual source of office-holding is the humble work of the clerk, handyman or messenger, responsible for carrying out the nagging routine of government.