All the illusions as to the capacity of Germany being able to pay have fallen to pieces, and the indemnities, after the absurd demands which tended to consider as inadequate the figure of 350 milliards and an annual payment of from ten to fifteen milliards have become an anxious unknown quantity, as troublesome to the victors as to the vanquished.

" "But some in troublesome in trouble!"

When a child sneezes, or coughs, or cries, the abdomen should naturally yield gently; but if it is so confined that it cannot yield where the band is applied, it will yield in an unnatural proportion below, to the great danger of producing a species of rupture, no less troublesome than the one which such tight swathing is designed to prevent.

His own soldiers were nearly as troublesome as the natives.

"Three of my ships are in the harbor, and times are troublesome at sea.

One of the most troublesome of the annoyances which come nowadays to dwellers in the country, within easy reach of any great city, is the bad kind of strolling beggar known as "the tramp."

He, however, seriously observed of the last stanza repeated by him, that it nearly comprized all the advantages that wealth can give.' 'An eminent foreigner, when he was shewn the British Museum, was very troublesome with many absurd inquiries.

About the middle of September the Indians became very troublesome on the line of the stage road along the Sweetwater.

Other fears and sorrows, grievances of body and mind, are troublesome for the time; but this is for ever, eternal damnation, hell itself, a plague, a fire: an inundation hurts one province alone, and the loss may be recovered; but this superstition involves all the world almost, and can never be remedied.

Gain is his godliness, which if conscience go about to prejudice, and grow troublesome by exclaiming against, he is condemned for a common barretor.

As the child grows older, the system of cleanliness must in no particular be relaxed, and it will be found the best preservative against those eruptive disorders which are so frequent and troublesome during the period of infancy.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via: "and therefore peradventure this world here is made troublesome unto us," that, as Gregory notes, "we should not be delighted by the way, and forget whither we are going.

His young brother, Barrie, began to be troublesome about this time, and to evince an unwholesome interest in the pigeons.

"Them varmints of boys," he stammered, "be so troublesome round the dooroccasion'lly, that is.

I thought it looked dark and troublesome before us.

My nocturnal complaints grow less troublesome towards morning; and I am tempted to repair the deficiencies of the night.

Anything frightful, sudden, or surprising, upon soft, timorous natures, not only shews itself in the continuance, but produces sometimes very troublesome consequencesfor instance, a parliamentary fright will make even grown men bewray themselves, scare them out of their wits, turn the hair grey.