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Example sentences for "great nuisance"

  • I once lived in a house terribly infested with rats, and I wanted to get rid of them as quick as I could, for they were a great nuisance.

  • Paul regarded the unnecessary use of unknown tongues in the assemblies of the Church, as a great nuisance.

  • Of works of fiction I read very few, and evermore still fewer as I got older, until at length I came to view them generally as a great nuisance.

  • The subscription packs of foxhounds were also a great nuisance, many of the followers being townsmen who bored through hedges and smashed the gates and stiles, conduct not unknown to-day.

  • On the great estates these offices tended to become hereditary, and many families did treat them as hereditary property, and were a great nuisance in consequence to their lords.

  • The landing and all the Customs business was a great nuisance, though we got through capitally.

  • Then the baggage chequing business turned out a great nuisance, the men went down to cheque it while I was away getting the tickets, and when I came back they had all gone away.

  • The kites, marabouts, and vultures were a great nuisance.

  • Although this is a great nuisance (as cutting the throat spoils the head skin), it is right to respect such customs, and I always made a point of killing something else, so that they should not suffer for their belief.

  • No, he thinks he shall sell out, for the army is a great nuisance.

  • He asked me if lying here was not a great nuisance, and, at last, he grew tired of twisting his moustache, and went away.

  • I should not think he found her a great nuisance.


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