Example Sentences

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It is my observation and belief that a grizzly, if physically able, will attack any living thing that molests it or interferes with its routine activities.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is first the danger of disturbing the spirit of the head, which may be injured in the process and may revenge itself upon the person who molests him.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

In self-defence we had our boots blacked, for the ambulating bootblack molests no longer the owner of a well-polished pair of boots.

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Gordon, Cora

Still I hunt in my father's woods; kill my father's deer; and fish in my father's lakes; since no one molests me.

From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison

The fact is, these animals feel perfectly secure, for, with the p. 169exception of a few Mongols who follow the chase, nobody ever molests them.

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis