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The book is organised by taxonomy, starting with single-cell organisms, working through worms and crustaceans, arachnids and insects, all the way to those troublesomely interstitial chordata.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010

Hart's original account of the boat trip was troublesomely vague.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wholesale price index fell .4% in December, indicating a continuing slackening of inflationary pressures, but the nation's troublesomely high unemployment rate remained unchanged at 8.3%.

From Time Magazine Archive

And presently Martin began to cough a little, and then a little more, and finally so troublesomely that she was obliged to lay her profound thoughts aside, to attend to him with a little frown.

From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Farjeon, Eleanor

That was well worth the effort to take the pen once more in hand, and affix the troublesomely long name of Elizabeth to some few official documents.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel