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    1. He’s not chatty and I don’t pester him, contenting myself with watching the land as it changes


    2. There were many women much more eager to enjoy bodily pleasures than Ava, so he made sure he wouldn’t have to pester Ava for sex for the next week


    3. The Elf continued; “We must discover only the verity of three things---besides the nagging discordant changes in their command structures---from this particular collection of vermin: Do they pester only select systems; if so which ones? Are their conscripts abetting them willingly or are they truly abused into service? And most importantly: How many more gangs like this are there out there? I realize that last bit of data may be the most slippery to determine


    4. ‘How about sending the Carriage to pester them?’ said Sam


    5. "You quit work and drove two hours simply to pester me again?"


    6. Clara used her saliva bug flies to swarm and pester Bella and her men


    7. would make him suspicious to the point where he’d pester me until


    8. Does he only want to keep me here to pester Jabar? I suspect there’s more to it than meets the eye


    9. Selena enticed him to this place just to pester me


    10. pester us, we hate them, and then

    11. like it when hyenas pester them at a kill


    12. Karen would often pester Steve about moving to Hawaii


    13. I was deciding to either pester Sheila a little more, or follow him, when I noticed Derek shudder as he past me on the steps


    14. I’m not going to pester


    15. “Well, don’t pester me with the obvious


    16. Though she appreciated their concern and efforts to make her comfortable, enough was enough already! Kirby and Adrian, who were seated behind her, took almost exaggerated care to walk around her bandaged ankle, (which was propped up on the ugly lollipop cushion in the aisle, in a regal fashion), whenever they got up to use the restroom or to pester the flight attendants for something


    17. The humans here may very well pester us to exempt


    18. You want to be careful not to pester the user, so keep the invitation


    19. Mike started to pester Orthon with the same question over and over


    20. ‘Don’t pester her any more, dear

    21. example, we already see e-mail addressesafter articles in publications, allowing readers to pester authors directly


    22. tank mates too little and they will pester the smaller tank mates


    23. They should be ok with fish larger than them provided that the larger fish don't pester


    24. Sarah-Jane remained in a coma, much to the annoyance of the local police who unable to get a statement from Sarah took it upon themselves to pester all of Chesford’ club goers on the pretence of trying to establish a link between the accident, John Simmons’ death and the Roostertail


    25. Louisa would have immediately begun to pester him to


    26. 2, to agitate or upset greatly 3, to annoy, pester, or harass" American Heritage Dictionary)


    27. them, you do not want to pester your ex lover to the point where they feel you


    28. to annoy, pester, or harass


    29. "I remember I entertained a great objection to your adversary, because I took it ill that he should be brought here to pester me with his company


    30. might have been hanging up too on the line on exhibition for all hed ever care with the ironmould mark the stupid old bundle burned on them he might think was something else and she never even rendered down the fat I told her and now shes going such as she was on account of her paralysed husband getting worse theres always something wrong with them disease or they have to go under an operation or if its not that its drink and he beats her Ill have to hunt around again for someone every day I get up theres some new thing on sweet God sweet God well when Im stretched out dead in my grave I suppose 111 have some peace I want to get up a minute if Im let wait O Jesus wait yes that thing has come on me yes now wouldnt that afflict you of course all the poking and rooting and ploughing he had up in me now what am I to do Friday Saturday Sunday wouldnt that pester the soul out of a body unless he likes it some men do God knows theres always something wrong with us 5 days every 3 or 4 weeks usual monthly auction isnt it simply sickening that night it came on me like that the one and only time we were in a box that Michael Gunn gave him to see Mrs Kendal and her husband at the Gaiety something he did about insurance for him in Drimmies I was fit to be tied though I wouldnt give in with that gentleman of fashion staring down at me with his glasses and him the other side of me talking about Spinoza and his soul thats dead I suppose millions of years ago I smiled the best I could all in a swamp leaning forward as if I was interested having to sit it out then to the last tag I wont forget that wife of Scarli in a hurry supposed to be a fast play about adultery that idiot in the gallery hissing the woman adulteress he shouted I suppose he went and had a woman in the next lane running round all the back ways after to make up for it I wish he had what I had then hed boo I bet the cat itself is better off than us have we too much blood up in us or what O patience above its pouring out of me like the sea anyhow he didnt make me pregnant as big as he is I dont want to ruin the clean sheets I just put on I suppose the clean linen I wore brought it on too damn it damn it and they always want to see a stain on the bed to know youre a virgin for them all thats troubling them theyre such fools too you could be a widow or divorced 40 times over a daub of red ink would do or blackberry juice no thats too purply O Jamesy let me up out of this pooh sweets of sin whoever suggested that business for women what between clothes and cooking and children this damned old bed too jingling like the dickens I suppose they could hear us away over the other side of the park till I suggested to put the quilt on the floor with the pillow under my bottom I wonder is it nicer in the day I think it is easy I think Ill cut all this hair off me there scalding me I might look like a young girl wouldnt he get the great suckin the next time he turned up my clothes on me Id give anything to see his face wheres the chamber gone easy Ive a holy horror of its breaking under me after that old commode I wonder was I too heavy sitting on his knee I made him sit on the easychair purposely when I took off only my blouse and skirt first in the other room he was so busy where he oughtnt to be he never felt me I hope my breath was sweet after those kissing comfits easy God I remember one time I could scout it out straight whistling like a man almost easy O Lord how noisy I hope theyre bubbles on it for a wad of money from some fellow 111 have to perfume it in the morning dont forget I bet he never saw a better pair of thighs than that look how white they are the smoothest place is right there between this bit here how soft like a peach easy

    31. Another big lawsuit was the last thing on Donovan’s mind, and her intent was not to pester him on this momentous day


    32. ‘You realize what a job you’re taking on, Mr Horn? This child can’t be allowed to have normal playmates; why, they’d pester it to death in no time


    33. After he set Marilyn up financially, moving her into his new home after he left his wife and children, Hyde began to constantly pester her to marry him


    34. Don’t worry about forgetting, however, because brokers don’t want to deal with this, and they will call and pester you to close out your position days before expiration


    35. But why pester one with all this reasoning on the subject? Speak out! You have seen him spout; then declare what the spout is; can you not tell water from air? My dear sir, in this world it is not so easy to settle these plain things


    36. ” Apropos of her acquaintance with Fyodor Pavlovitch, she remarked curtly, “That's all nonsense, and was it my fault that he would pester me?” But a minute later she added, “It was all my fault


    37. I always hoped you would have sense enough not to pester me


    38. Everything was there—shame and an assumption of insolence, and vexation at the sudden flushing of his face, and anger and fear of failure, and entreaty to be forgiven for having dared to pester, and a sense of his own dignity, and a still greater sense of his own abjectness—all this passed over his face like lightning


    1. Estwig hadn't pestered too badly to come with them, he must still have a bit of yaag or a girl nearby


    2. No one pestered them or asked them if they were alright


    3. Seems hard to take – being pestered by a load of teenagers, but he didn’t mind


    4. more she pestered and nagged, the more determined he seemed to be


    5. “A mind such as yours is not pestered by gnats in the night air


    6. pestered the poor lieutenant with sightings at least once a


    7. “Harry told me a similar thing when I asked him once about why he didn't tell me about his training, after I had pestered him about the Ten Tigers my father'd seen


    8. Garcia's men grew wary of carrying despatches after dark, and gave our lines a wide berth, though starving Negro pacificos hung round the camps in hundreds, and pestered the soldiers, who berated Cubans in general in consequence


    9. This may sound mean, but Hikaru thinks it's awesome and always pestered me to play when I was busy doing homework


    10. I asked whose idea it was that Raymond became an escort, and he said he had pestered his father until he gave in – a believable scenario once I knew the lad

    11. He pestered Bridget for swimming trunks and she eventually relented


    12. It was about this time that the younger ones in particular began to desire a pet dog once more and pestered Joe to get one


    13. Pestered by her mother, when she spilled the beans, her father tried to appease his son-in-law by agreeing to part with his old Lambretta


    14. Shorebirds pestered us, flying into the birds and striking, trying to drive them off and a sure sign that we were approaching land


    15. So after Drew pestered his daddy and me for a few days we finally gave in


    16. The group pestered him to say yes, his shyness was the reason behind his reluctance of going out, it had been a while since he'd a good night out with friends


    17. On this particular day I awoke from what seemed to be sleep, but who knows, it could have been an abstraction, and looking towards the setting sun, I could make out a shimmering herd of various beasts of different kinds, crawling creatures were near my feet, and a small swarm of flying insects pestered my head


    18. She had pestered him that his soul was vexed, and he then told her all his heart


    19. that had pestered the group


    20. You are rarely pestered by a pssterer either, but then

    21. I thought he was kidding at first but he pestered me every day after that


    22. Even though she had only met Jason's little brother Zachary a couple of times she had seen him regularly on the Fame TV channel, usually being pestered by Chauncey Tales and surrounded by beautiful women and ultra cool looking friends


    23. Why, I know of an incident when the bride was pestered by her in-laws to fetch her jewels even though her father was battling for his life that was the day after her marriage


    24. “How I craved to hear that from Ruma but fearing that she might take me as a callous character, I didn’t disclose my diabolical plan to her though she pestered me no end,” he said remorsefully


    25. Every fall we are pestered with the near endless


    26. It was like being pestered by a swarm of midges on a hot summer's day


    27. Even after this small exhibition was over, she was pestered by a couple of reporters for an hour


    28. Remove tank mates that get overly bullied or pestered


    29. The Poles don’t get the word play, which is understandable, I was constantly pestered about an advert in which a cartoon dog is supposed to chase a stick but makes a joke about something falling on the floor


    30. He explained that many of his Polish customers pestered him about giving

    31. He had pestered the two literate adults of the village to teach him, stating that he wanted to be able to read the Koran


    32. We sat in silence, pestered by flies, the patient’s vitals checked every five minutes; they


    33. ‘On the night of the murder, I waited there for an hour and a half, being pestered by some appalling little man, but Tony didn't turn up


    34. she had pestered him with questions


    35. They tell loved ones to stop their pointless moaning and wailing and crying and get on with their lives simply because the undead do not want to be bothered and pestered by such things… that their loved ones are doing just fine and are waiting for them on the other side… they are not waiting for them on the other side… they are hating them on the other side… and waiting for them to get there so they can get at them


    36. “Whatever, how are you going to use it help us, anyway?” Deneb pestered


    37. After the discovery of the skull and Ted’s initial explanation of the Ice Age to me I had pestered him for more of his knowledge of the time period, as I had become quite fascinated by it


    38. All the doctrines, the ideas, the systems, with which Andrey Semyonovitch pestered him had no interest for him


    39. Moreover he was pestered by guides


    40. there you are like it or lump it he thinks nothing can happen without him knowing he hadnt an idea about my mother till we were engaged otherwise hed never have got me so cheap as he did he was lo times worse himself anyhow begging me to give him a tiny bit cut off my drawers that was the evening coming along Kenilworth square he kissed me in the eye of my glove and I had to take it off asking me questions is it permitted to enquire the shape of my bedroom so I let him keep it as if I forgot it to think of me when I saw him slip it into his pocket of course hes mad on the subject of drawers thats plain to be seen always skeezing at those brazenfaced things on the bicycles with their skirts blowing up to their navels even when Milly and I were out with him at the open air fete that one in the cream muslin standing right against the sun so he could see every atom she had on when he saw me from behind following in the rain I saw him before he saw me however standing at the corner of the Harolds cross road with a new raincoat on him with the muffler in the Zingari colours to show off his complexion and the brown hat looking slyboots as usual what was he doing there where hed no business they can go and get whatever they like from anything at all with a skirt on it and were not to ask any questions but they want to know where were you where are you going I could feel him coming along skulking after me his eyes on my neck he had been keeping away from the house he felt it was getting too warm for him so I halfturned and stopped then he pestered me to say yes till I took off my glove slowly watching him he said my openwork sleeves were too cold for the rain anything for an excuse to put his hand anear me drawers drawers the whole blessed time till I promised to give him the pair off my doll to carry about in his waistcoat pocket O Maria Santisima he did look a big fool dreeping in the rain splendid set of teeth he had made me hungry to look at them and beseeched of me to lift the orange petticoat I had on with the sunray pleats that there was nobody he said hed kneel down in the wet if I didnt so persevering he would too and ruin his new raincoat you never know what freak theyd take alone with you theyre so savage for it if anyone was passing so I lifted them a bit and touched his trousers outside the way I used to Gardner after with my ring hand to keep him from doing worse where it was too public I was dying to find out was he circumcised he was shaking like a jelly all over they want to do everything too quick take all the pleasure out of it and father waiting all the time for his dinner he told me to say I left my purse in the butchers and had to go back for it what a Deceiver then he wrote me that letter with all those words in it how could he have the face to any woman after his company manners making it so awkward after when we met asking me have I offended you with my eyelids down of course he saw I wasnt he had a few brains not like that other fool Henny Doyle he was always breaking or tearing something in the charades I hate an unlucky man and if I knew what it meant of course I had to say no for form sake dont understand you I said and wasnt it natural so it is of course it used to be written up with a picture of a womans on that wall in Gibraltar with that word I couldnt find anywhere only for children seeing it too young then writing every morning a letter sometimes twice a day I liked the way he made love then he knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the 8 big poppies because mine was the 8th then I wrote the night he kissed my heart at Dolphins barn I couldnt describe it simply it makes you feel like nothing on earth but he never knew how to embrace well like

    41. She pestered Beth with so many questions about the safety of their money that in the end Beth took her to inspect the place


    42. They were also getting pestered by relatives who’d heard rumors of coal money


    43. She had staked out psycho killers in sketchy areas, had spent nights in rough motels or in her car, had worked nights and weekends and pestered cops, even ones she loved, for information that would become a great story, possibly an exclusive one


    44. The press pestered him and my poor stepmother, Mary, to death because of these stories Marilyn made up


    45. Marilyn was pestered by lawyers in Kentucky for months as to whether she wanted to stake a claim on Jasper’s meager estate, until finally she made it clear—via her own attorney—that she had no such interest


    46. " Well, well thon," cried the landlord, delighted; he had noticed nothing, and was awfully afraid, bs such story-tellers always are, that he would be pestered with questions; "but then a Russian workman walks up, a young felloAv, you know the typical Russian, with a beard like a wetlge, in a long-skirted coat, and perhaps a little drunk too


    47. " He's neither one thing nor the other; I picked him out of the mud, I dressed him in drap de dames with little boots of good material, he has embroidered shirts like a general's son, why has he not grown attached to me ? Why is he as dumb as a little wolf ? " And though people had long given up being surprised at Maxim Ivanovitch, they began to be surprised at him again—the man was beside himself : he pestered the little child and would never let him alone


    48. His wife, Marfa Ignatyevna, had obeyed her husband's will implicitly all her life, yet she had pestered him terribly after the emancipation of the serfs


    49. “Though I used to come here as a friend,” Smerdyakov began again, “Dmitri Fyodorovitch has pestered me in a merciless way even here by his incessant questions about the master


    50. When a colossal pockmarked captain, supported by a herd of rabble following at his heels, pestered him by asking "which way to the buffet?" he made a sign to a police sergeant



    1. Stay away from pointed questions about college or career plans; most sixteen-year-olds have not yet decided and resent pestering


    2. Meanwhile both Heymon and Elmore were pestering him for results, more specifically, hounding him to find the error in his previous observations that allowed quantum information to be created


    3. ” He had been pestering her about that often


    4. eye, others had torn paws and chewed necks, and many had flies pestering open


    5. He smiled as small children scampered about the greenery, pestering the cows and horses while adults chopped wood and sharpened weapons


    6. Because of her incessant curiosity, she had been pestering him with questions since she met him, and now he was the one stuck with the consequences


    7. Nothing worse than people pestering you with questions, once it’s ancient history


    8. With the decision made, she knew exactly to whom she was going with the information: that nosey little Indian who was forever pestering Mike and snooping around all over the place, Officer Edgar Vargas, Mike’s number one enemy


    9. She has been pestering her daughter about our wedding from the time we were kids


    10. what’s-his-name in charge…the guy who keeps pestering everyone about the killer

    11. Jessica would probably pick up the phone and tell him to stop pestering and make him understand it was a delicate situation


    12. pestering the guys to hurry up and finish installing the stove in the


    13. class, started pestering me the moment the teacher turned her back to write on the blackboard


    14. “Keep on pestering them


    15. who had been pestering me on the ferry, tapped me on the shoulder and offered to share the room


    16. „The cops have probably been pestering them


    17. pestering me with attention


    18. The method I have chosen is to slash the femoral artery of a pestering


    19. One quick point on this topic and we’ll move on – it would be really, really advisable that if you are pestering her for sex then that really needs to stop, don’t pressure her, as quite obviously she really won’t want it just yet! Hang on in there and then when you see signs that things are improving, that she’s got more time for you both and she’s less tired - then start using this course to help you understand how you can get into a position where restarting your sex life is a possibility


    20. His superiors eventually agreed, as they wanted the body, and the case, laid to rest as they had become fed up with cranks pestering them for stories about alien abductions and government cover ups, after the press had received a tip off from within the Met

    21. Then a girl who was friends with her at college rang me and said that the Italian guy had been pestering one of her friends at the beach front


    22. As they gazed at the distant burning wreckage and the rising smoke, the movements of the two escapees are noticed by the four lionesses and, as the suckling cubs are scattered and seek entertainment from pestering the males, their mothers slowly pad in the direction of their next meal


    23. A group of thugs were pestering a young woman; it seemed that she wanted to exit the store with her groceries, but the thugs were blocking her way


    24. Bahit said to Karit in a cautioning voice, “You really need to stop pestering the Rakai, Karit


    25. Unfortunately, the lion inside me kept pestering me about


    26. “She has been pestering us for years to get rid of segregation in the States


    27. Before Zara could say to Leon that the notion of sending young children out on a space walk was crazy and irresponsible, at least four children sitting at nearby tables, three of them preteens, screamed with joy and started pestering their parents for permission to go on the said walk


    28. In the underground command bunker built under the main headquarters building of the base, Marshal Reyat Khan was pestering his subalterns to act, even though there was in reality very little they could do now but wait and hope


    29. “A bloke from an outfit I’ve never heard of - Computer Solutions, or something - who’s been pestering me for days wanting to come in and give us a presentation


    30. The chap who’s been pestering me to make a presentation is Rupert Bland, who calls himself Managing Director of the new products division

    31. Libby Hatcher was a wreck, and Kevin Maida kept pestering the police with questions – he was obviously unstable


    32. pestering me for a while


    33. pestering them and disturbing the neighbours with an awful racket in the early hours


    34. I don’t want her pestering me


    35. Tom’s been pestering me about his holidays


    36. ‘Do you think Sathyam’s neglect and Prasad’s pestering could bother me really,’ she said as though showing her cards


    37. If you still insist on pestering me, I will even use secret projectiles!”


    38. and he went on with his pestering questions


    39. The usual all-news-all-the-time station appears, with the background of the same flashing photos I saw on the internet pestering me


    40. I thought that old fool would never stop pestering me

    41. It broke through the boredom that had been pestering him for a while


    42. ‘I mean you don’t want to have people pestering you


    43. To his relief she stopped pestering him for sex and started to speak about the horse


    44. He sold a couple, although this might’ve been so he’d simply stop pestering the individuals concerned


    45. I kept pestering her about Polish and had bought a small


    46. No matter that he avoided areas where young teenagers would gather in groups he found himself facing a different kind of pestering


    47. I kept pestering my parents for a while but I’d pretty much given up hope, and then that Christmas morning there was a huge box under the tree


    48. Maybe they would stop pestering each other long enough to help the humans complete their quests


    49. He had been pestering both his parents to get back together


    50. My family was pestering me to get married and my continuous refusals would not put them off




















    1. Her original fear of the sky falling having proved baseless, or at least premature, today’s Chicken Little pesters the coop and chicken yard with a new cry: “The earth is warming up! The earth is warming up!” The Wurm ice sheet covered most of Europe some 20,000 years ago, about the same time the Wisconsin ice sheet covered much of North America


    2. He constantly and recurrently pesters those nearest and dearest to him in a bid to reassure himself that he is not losing his fame, his magic touch, the attention of his social milieu


    3. snaps at anyone who pesters him and it is better that he is left alone


    4. But I will add one essential matter : Tatyana Pavlovna, a true and dear friend to me, pesters me almost every day with exhortations to enter the university: " When you've taken your degree," she says, " then you can consider the position, but now you must finish your studies


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