"The boys will pester you to death today and tomorrowthough of course I know you have no other time.

'Tis an affront to good company to pester it with such talk.

Devoe would take her cup of tea alone and leave his fruit and bread and milk standing on the tea-table; it was better so, she would not pester him with questions while he was eating, ask him why he did not take more exercise, and if his room were not suffocating this hot day, and if he did not think a cup of good, strong tea would not be better for him than that bowl of milk!

Outcries, like these, uttered by malignity, and echoed by folly; general accusations of indeterminate wickedness; and obscure hints of impossible designs, dispersed among those that do not know their meaning, by those that know them to be false, have disposed part of the nation, though but a small part, to pester the court with ridiculous petitions.

Above all things, never let anyone pester me.

But I suppose I oughtn't to pester you with the details of my personal affairs.

You remember, my brother was last seen alive at Hurst's housebut there, I oughtn't to talk like that, and I oughtn't to pester you with my confounded affairs when you have come in for a friendly chat, though I gave you fair warning, you remember.

"It's exceedingly good of you to listen so patiently, but it's a shame for me to pester you with my sentimental troubles.

Don't pester me now.

Don't pester me, child!

I have ventured to discharge the soldiers Which to keepe here in pay upon the rumour Of a great fleete a comming, would both pester The Towne and be unnecessary charge To the King our Master.

How dare you come out of your station to pester this young lady with your impudent addresses?

o' decent way, I don't know; I never was a reader, anyhow, 'n' now I've lost my front teeth, some words does pester me to git out.

I hope he is cured forever of making of himself a pester and a plague.

Soon ez the doctor had teched a poultice to his foot he had woke up an' put a stop to it, an' then he had went off by hisself where nothin' couldn't pester him, to enjoy his apple in peace.

Ef a man can thess git his answers right all his life, why nobody ain't a-goin' to pester him about how he worked his figur's.

But it don't seem to pester the Lord any.

Christ has given us no detailed map of the future, and when foolish persons pester us with little maps of their own making, let us to see to it that they get no encouragement from us.

All they're good for is to torment and pester a fellow.

He would have plenty of time later in the day to stifle in that smoke-filled parlor where, the moment he showed his face, everybody would be upon him and pester the life out of him with questions and wire-pulling!

And finding the police still turning up to pester him, he went back along the Edgware Road, towards Cricklewood, and struck off sullenly to the north.

Then would I be taken with a spasm of desire to play upon the recorders or the Bavarian single flute, and would pester my father to let me learn.

His latest story, The Pester Finger (SKEFFINGTON), shows him as Ruritanian as ever.

In a similar spirit I answer those who pester me about horses.

He doin' it jus' t' pester me.