Bother or difficulty

Usage examples of trouble.

I dare not accompany you, as I am well known in the town and it might get me into trouble with the police, who are ridiculously strict in these matters.

I thought her advice wise, and I followed it, and having the wind behind me I got to the casino without trouble, and slept till broad day.

With mammoth government contracts in the offing, Weinberg had no trouble converting the Business Advisory Council of leading businessmen into an agency for helping governmental leaders plan the policies for war and for the post-war period.

She had guessed that someone would visit her about witchcraft after overhearing conversations among some children who said she afflicted and troubled people.

I contemplated food phobias, the more I became convinced that people who habitually avoid certifiably delicious foods are at least as troubled as people who avoid sex, or take no pleasure from it, except that the latter will probably seek psychiatric help, while food phobics rationalize their problem in the name of genetic inheritance, allergy, vegetarianism, matters of taste, nutrition, food safety, obesity, or a sensitive nature.

Already his visions of her as she would be were creeping into her mind, looking desirable, alluring, and she was having more and more trouble casting them out.

The horses began to amble again, this time a little faster, as if they knew there had almost been trouble and wanted to leave the place of it behind.

So you must name a sum which will amply recompense you for the trouble and expense that you have had with us.

Seeing it, he had trouble believing that the Anarch Peak lay on a makeshift bed inside, presumably with at least Dr.

A less common form of gastrointestinal anthrax causes a severe sore throat, fever, trouble swallowing, and, sometimes, ulcers in the mouth or back of the throat.

No other creature would be so likely to trouble a person who had an antipathy to it.

His younger brother had ever possessed a fiery temper, which occasionally caused trouble among the Antler Kindred.

We do not consider that apperception spares us the trouble of examining ever anew and in small detail all the objects and phenomena that present themselves to us, so as to get their meaning, or that it thus prevents our mental power from scattering and from being worn out with wearisome, fruitless detail labors.

Uncle Sam was called to fight for humanity, and only an approximation of the condition can be made, for about two-thirds of the National Guard had been taken into the regular service incident to the trouble with Mexico, when the Guardsmen were summoned to the border to protect the country, and recruiting was proceeding in all branches of the service to bring all the regiments up to a war footing.

Since then he had bedded Aurora Mcentire, been ambushed and wounded by the men working for that mysterious boss, fought his way out of that trouble, reached the lumber camp too late to prevent more murders, and raced here to the Diamond K in a desperate attempt to forestall an even more wholesale slaughter.