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troublous

[truhb-luhs] / ˈtrʌb ləs /


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He is the one and only person that this country needs in these troublous times to cement the two great races in Canada into one loyal mass.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such troublous facts and troubling doctrines were making double trouble last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the Republican Senators who lost, ironically, was the man who guided Dwight Eisenhower's campaign during the troublous preconvention months: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid troublous times the Abbot secreted certain valuable deeds in a vast meat pie.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he attended the supper-parties sometimes in his purposeless way, and they permitted him to do so freely, despite the maxim that in troublous times half-friends are no friends.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis




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