Word: annoy
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Reporter. I am sorry that the muckers should annoy you; but you mistake the object of their curiosity. The reverence felt for men of education in this country is so great that we, even, follow our professors to their homes, to catch glimpses of their benign countenances...
...request of the Reading Room Association we call attention to the recent thefts of its property. A desire to steal something seems to have infected the College and its vicinity. The depredations of outsiders are frequent and annoying enough, and when in addition kleptomania threatens to become prevalent among the students, the prospect is a gloomy one. It is very exasperating to all frequenters of the Reading Room to have its magazines suddenly "spirited" away, and we trust that the students are not numerous who can voluntarily annoy so many of their fellows...
...Students who attend the services at the Methodist church on Sunday evenings "carry their rowdyism so far as to distract the attention of a large portion of the audience, annoy the speaker, and insult members of the congregation...
Orestes' bones annoy...
...time with trifles, proceeds almost without thought, or at least accustoms his mind to a consideration of the trivial circumstances of each hour, and none other. He is not liable to gusts of feeling. Mingle only with the rich and the well-bred; for the rich will not annoy you with requests for favors, and the well-bred neither feel nor inspire emotion of any sort, and in so far are they philosophical. Avoid music, paintings of landscapes, and fine scenes in nature, for they have all suggestions of infinity; they breed longings, dissatisfactions, and often an idle love...