Why was I to be bothered by a man who was nothing but a nuisance and a pest?
I knew that it was best to deal with this new nuisance as deftly as I might.
It was in the papers how, when the highest courts said that the law was good, the saloon keepers attacked the schools as a nuisance and detrimental to property.
Only by its sufferance of the bargain counter and of sweatshop-made goods has the nuisance existed as long as it has.
At present you will find at many a rich man's door {117c} a nuisance which is poisoning the atmosphere that his children are to breathe, but which he could entirely cure for less than one day's ordinary expenses.
It would have been a great nuisance to have had to follow you through intricate theories about what fiction consists in, and what are its limits, and so on.
And as is often enough the case with youth, he resented the position, found his age embarrassing, and his obvious juvenility a nuisance to say the least of it.
It's an awful nuisancelooking so frightfully young, ain't it?
We have never been much trouble to a Consul before, but we have been a fearful nuisance to our Consul at Beirout.
The nuisance of an Arab guard is one which is created by the Sheiks and the Bedouins together, for mutual profit, it is said, and no doubt there is a good deal of truth in it.
But, honestly, I think an umbrella is a nuisance any where when its business is to keep the sun off.
It was plain to see that I was one too many in the world, and whatever I did with myself I would be surely trespassing upon somebody's privilege, outraging somebody's patience, and making myself a nuisance generally.
But I don’t believe I was ever quite such a nuisance as David is.
He tells me also that he had warned you that the next time you made a nuisanceof yourself he would send you to me.
The nuisance is general; it seems to be in the air; every blade of grass has its colony; clusters of hundreds adhere to the twigs; myriads are found in the bush clumps.
I have known old and ill-tempered males to become a perfect nuisance on some estancias, running after and attacking every person, whether on foot or on horseback, that ventured near them.
I have known some tame huanacos, and in that state they make amusing intelligent pets, fond of being caressed, but often so frolicsome and mischievous as to be a nuisance to their master.
The arithmetical illustrations which he employed for the purpose became a nuisance in the hands of his disciples.
Through defects in the design and management of many of the early destructors complaints of nuisance frequently arose, and these have, to some extent, brought destructor installations into disrepute.
I am afraid Phyllis Carey is enough of a nuisanceto Miss Franklin--and other people.
I have this waterproof affair, which, like the umbrella, is rather a nuisancethan otherwise.
We all think it a horrid nuisance to have to be Daddy's models and sit still for hours just when we want to do something else.
Of course, I shall have to take it with me, though it will be a nuisance to pack.
I'd like them all right if they didn't cry so much; it's such a nuisance when they're perpetually squalling.
The only public demonstration of principle that we have seen is an emblematic bell drawn upon a wagon by a single horse, with a man to lead him, and a boy to make a nuisance of the tinkling symbol as it moves along.
I promise not to be a nuisance and if it becomes unbearable, just chuck me!
I've got the upper half of the section," said Archie, "But I promise not to be a nuisance to you.
The Governor spoke of policemen and detectives with pity; they were so stupid, he said, though he admitted under Archie's cross-examination that they could be a nuisance at times.
I'd rather be out in the wood by far," he said, "than be here feeling that I have made a nuisance of myself.
The principal causes of thisnuisance are: (1) A too wide or too narrow diameter of the shafts.
They are, however, liable to become a nuisance by being obstructed with dirt and not being constantly flushed; whenever possible they should be dispensed with.
I suppose I've been a damned nuisance about the countinghouse for a long time," he pronounced, turning.
At times, he felt, she would be a nuisance but for the firm hand of her mother and his own contribution to their well-being by an occasional sly sally.
The nuisance is that there's no house here for me to go to.
It's an infernal nuisance that this place, which would be more than ever a recreation to me now, should only be turned into a worry.
I should like to have a brother of that sort myself, but my brother Alfred has always been a nuisance to me, with his schemes for making enormous fortunes which never came off.
I took more interest in the stage at that time than in anything else, and as for Ernest, I found him a nuisance for engrossing so much of his aunt's attention, and taking her so much from London.
He had had no idea how great a nuisance a baby was.
It was entitled "Fumifugium," and dealt with the great smoke nuisancein London.
