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His style is nervous and original, not harassingly pointed like a chestnut-burr, but full of esprit or wit diffused,—that Gallic leaven which pervades whole sentences and paragraphs with an indefinable lightness and palatableness.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various

He cried when I said that I had not; but quietly, not harassingly.

From It, and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur

It was an unwieldy thing to carry and it distracted his attention harassingly.

From The Palace of Darkened Windows by Frederick, Edmund

For him at the time it is all quite real and harassingly or splendidly important.

From How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell by Bryant, Sara Cone

The cotton factor was harassingly responsible to a whole swarm of planter patrons, of whose feelings he had to be all the more careful when they were in his debt.

From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by Cable, George Washington