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Usage examples of nuisance.

My first experiences in Egypt, pursuing mummies and climbing up and down cliffs, had convinced me that trailing skirts and tight corsets were a confounded nuisance in that ambience For many years my working costume had consisted of pith helmet and shirtwaist, boots, and Turkish trousers, or bloomers.

Presumably Cyder had a small army of well-trained muscle standing by ready to jump on anyone who made a nuisance of themselves.

A new bride was a deuced nuisance, and that flame-haired widow could make any man forget his own wife, even if the wife was a tiny golden-haired beauty.

Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable .

These seekers of the earthy and very effable delights of his house quickly became a nuisance, and Bardo had to begin issuing invitations to his joyances.

To guys like Kroun the law was only a minor nuisance, not a major threat.

June 8, three days after Israel launched the war, Egyptian prisoners in the Sinai had become nuisances.

Additionally, the sky-car must be protected against every manner of damage, nuisance and misfortune, including pilferage, destruction, curiosity, tampering, vandalism, defilement, removal or concealment.

This caused her much embarrassment, since he persisted in being near her, making a puppyish nuisance of himself.

Both in Virginia and in Maryland the infliction of this rabble of simonists as a burden upon the public treasury was a nuisance under which the people grew more and more restive from year to year.

It was in an action for nuisance before Tindal, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, at Croydon Assizes.

He was cut everywhere mail had not protected his skin, cloth torn and tattered, but the gashes were shallow, a mere nuisance.

Queen Mother of Ulus seemed to serve no other purpose in life except to make herself a nuisance to him.

Although this was something of a nuisance Wiggy could not bring herself to dispose of it.

We are two of the Ashton party and I see that we have arrived before Ernest: a bit of a nuisance.