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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Nathaniel Greene

I rose early; and yet, in three months of country negligence, my clothes had all grown so troublesomely unbecoming, that, before I could make them look tolerable, the family were assembled at breakfast.

From Discipline by Mary Brunton


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