" There are certain handy phrases, the legal-tender of conversation, that people generally use without troubling themselves to look into their title to currency.

Excuse my troubling you; but I have nobody by me to speak to me.

An order issued from Constantinople demanded that the official language of the college be Turkish instead of English, and Turkish officers even dared to enter the college premises to search for citizens belonging to the belligerent nations, without troubling to ask permission from the American Consul.

" If any such thought were troubling Ford Foster, he made no confession of it, and was even specially careful, now and then, to turn around and address some remark or other to "the member from Africa," as he called him.

She calls the servant Sir; and insists on not troubling him to hold her plate.

" He took the troubling bills again.

"If it would not be troubling youreally?

Dismounting, he left the little roan standing, not troubling to drop the reins over the broncho's head, stepped toward the girl and extended the hat, saying simply and without emotion.

"And this is really what is troubling you, and not Aunt Amy?" "Yes.

But motherthat has been troubling us a long time.

'Is anything troubling you?' 'Only the same old question.

Even the proclamation of the famous Cluseret, who threatens us all with active service in the marching regiments, has not succeeded in troubling the tranquillity and indifference of the greater number of Parisians.

And yet it was her belief in a literal resurrection of the body that was sorely troubling her old soul during these last hours of watching.

Are we to suppose for a minute that men of this great station and authority and responsibility are going to issue a lettre de cachet for A.B., C.D., or E.F., without troubling themselves whether that lettre de cachet is wisely issued or not?

But then it is that Inger speaks up, a little timidly, again; seeing, no doubt, what is troubling him: "What if we both hang on the stick there?"

He had put it away at once, never troubling to look what money was in it; he had had letters of that sort from home before, and always a deal of notes insidesomething to help him on the way.

It is very difficult to account for the lack of interest which is taken in the variety outside Scotland, but the fact remains that very few have appeared at field trials within recent years, and that only about four owners are troubling the officials of English shows regularly at the present time.

"The harm is in our letting you die; I assure you it is entirely to satisfy our own consciences we are troubling you thus;" and he begins pressing him to take food.

Pardon me, my dear Sir, for troubling you with such a list of notes of interrogation.

"What is troubling you now?

With all this, however, I am sorry to say that I never met with so avaricious and so wicked an old curmudgeon; he allowed me almost daily to die of hunger, without troubling himself about my necessities; and, to say the truth, if I had not helped myself by means of a ready wit I should have closed my account from sheer starvation.

when the wicked ceased from troubling, and the weary were at rest, and the slave was free from his master!

'GARRANARD, BOHOLA, 'October 20, 19. 'DEAR MISS GLYNN, 'I wrote last week apologizing for troubling you again with a letter, pleading that the melancholy of autumn and the falling of the leaf forced me to write to someone.

To answer honestly would be to confess that which had been troubling her greatly of latethe feeling that there was something profoundly unsatisfactory in the relations between Ross and herself; that what he was giving her was different not only in degree but even in kind from what she wanted, or ought to want, from what she was trying to give him, or thought she ought to try to give him.

She appreciated what was troubling Hiram.