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Converted German merchant raiders, long on speed and cruising range, have harried Allied shipping with painful success.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since then, his guerrillas have harried Red garrisons along the windswept Yunnan-Burma border.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You have harried us of the King’s party out of England,—and in reason I might not leave England without seeing the desire of my heart.”

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

Do not write to me if you have done anything this month which it would have harried me to have seen.

From Mitch Miller by Sloan, John

For twenty-one years you have harried us nicely.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 by Various