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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

She showed no sign of having troublesomely impulsive feelings; on the contrary, she seemed cold.

From Dorothy and other Italian Stories by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

John Bull, I grieve to say, is growing So troublesomely sharp and knowing, So wise—in short, so Jacobin— 'Tis monstrous hard to take him in.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael




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