Example Sentences

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A certain lack of etiquette on my part in such matters has often been taken amiss, and now here I am troubling some excellent people with my formality.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

But I'll tell you why I am troubling you now.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony

But I am troubling you, sir, with what no way concerns you.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Edgeworth, Maria

I am troubling you at a very early hour, Major von Tellheim, but I am going into the country, where a kind, but also unfortunate friend, has for the present offered me an asylum.

From Minna Von Barnhelm by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

Ah, I see that I am troubling you," he exclaimed, "and really there is not much time to be lost.

From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir