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Example sentences for "annoyances"

Lexicographically close words:
announcer; announces; announcing; annoy; annoyance; annoyed; annoying; annoyingly; annoys; anns
  1. She told me that her brothers-in law were her declared enemies, that I well knew their intrigues, and that I well knew there was no end to the annoyances they made her undergo.

  2. We occasionally see the Exile in better moods, when he listened to the voice of reason, and thought less of the annoyances inseparable from the state to which his ambition, or as he himself always averred, his destiny, had reduced him.

  3. After the annoyances and inconveniences of the wretched inns, or hotels, as they were called, to find such open-hearted hospitality was like meeting with kindred in a desert land.

  4. These daily annoyances had a much greater effect upon Mr. Hastings than any great and serious misfortune could have had.

  5. He knew not all the petty annoyances that were in store for him.

  6. He will encounter the disagreeable practices and peculiarities of other people precisely as he did in the city; he will be called upon to endure annoyances as aggravating as any of those from which he has flown.

  7. By giving notice at the office of the hotel these annoyances would be removed with but little or no excitement.

  8. The thousand and one annoyances which a servant will sometimes make her master bear, or a woman her husband, were instinctively divined by Mademoiselle Gamard and used upon Birotteau.

  9. Now last evening, at Mademoiselle de la Blottiere's the Abbe Poirel talked about the annoyances which the Abbe Birotteau had inflicted on Mademoiselle Gamard, as though he were trying to cast all the blame on our good abbe.

  10. Added to all the other annoyances nothing had been gotten for dinner.

  11. I am tired of the annoyances to which we are subjected day after day.

  12. Annoyances caused by human frailty and the working of natural agents beset every practical housekeeper.

  13. The hero in great crises may be moved by the pressure of small annoyances to throw a boot at his valet de chambre, or to snarl at his wife.

  14. We retired, and, exhausted by the exciting annoyances of the day, I fell asleep.

  15. And Valentine never would have dreamed of the possibility of such annoyances for her had not the behavior of Mademoiselle Finette made the suggestion.

  16. Her ill-humour arose in part from her being on such a bad footing with the Empress, and from the fact that her Majesty often subjected her to annoyances and humiliations.

  17. In this house I had one of the most painful annoyances which I experienced during the entire reign of the Empress Elizabeth.

  18. The fever of his reflections augmented to such a height that he began to conjure up a variety of evils and annoyances which did not really exist.

  19. This uncertainty relative to her father’s fate is a cause of uneasiness to Adelais:--but every state and station in life has its annoyances and its sorrows.

  20. But Mrs. Winslow was obdurate, alleging that on account of these annoyances she had become weak and nervous of late, and did not desire to be annoyed with either the argument or arrangement.

  21. Very great annoyances result from this; for, not only can there be little security to the country with so many infidels, but the Sangleys are a wicked and vicious race.

  22. For very slight annoyances and for slight occasions, they were wont to kill and wound them, and to enslave them.

  23. The fortitude with which he sustained these annoyances may be seen in a letter written by him about this time to his friend, Egbert Benson, of New-York.

  24. There I will live, amuse myself, be a man like all of them, that is to say, gratify nothing but my egotism, and take rest after so many annoyances and struggles.

  25. It's mighty strange how few of these annoyances came up when she was in the office.

  26. The exasperating accumulation of annoyances and attacks, in spite of all his best and kindest endeavours, invoked a new light.

  27. The want of horses, and the annoyances given by the American light troops, however, kept Howe from advancing promptly, and gave time for the greater part of the stores to be saved.

  28. Certain passages of Schuyler's letters, however, gave him deep concern, wherein that general complained of the embarrassments and annoyances he had experienced from the insubordination of the army.

  29. Difficulties and annoyances had multiplied upon the latter at every step.

  30. We have heretofore had occasion to advert to the annoyances and perplexities occasioned to Washington by the claims and pretensions of foreign officers who had entered into the service.

  31. She had tried to make light in anticipation of the annoyances in store for her; but now they were forced upon her, and she felt uncomfortable and out of heart.

  32. This was the first of many similar annoyances during the journey.

  33. Here they camped and tired as they were, were obliged to keep a vigilant watch, as, to add to their many annoyances the natives had been following them all day.

  34. The high ideal they carried as their standard lifted them over many of the littlenesses and annoyances of daily life without a disturbing thought.

  35. It always makes my annoyances seem light, to be riding about to visit these fine houses.


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