troublous
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During the past several years, a number of county and State societies have elected "executive secretaries" for long tenure, to steer the societies through troublous times.
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It was so troublous that eventually Chambermen handed the whole question over to the Board for further study, forwent passing any specific resolutions on non-domestic issues.
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Such troublous facts and troubling doctrines were making double trouble last week.
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Amid troublous times the Abbot secreted certain valuable deeds in a vast meat pie.
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For I write--you must remember--of many years ago, of the mid-Victorian time, as it is called--and good days they were, as we know full well who have lived to see these unsettled, troublous days.
From Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \"Big Fish,\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Gilson, Charles