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very trying
1. It was a very trying relationship, he could discern more clearly now, though he had expected some problems from observing their behaviour in the club car
2. However, every trying situation is an opportunity for
3. He found her, however, very trying that night, the way she would keep on turning round, and it reached such a pitch of discomfort to sleep with her, or rather endeavour to sleep with her, for as the night went on she paid less and less attention to his requests that she should keep still, that at about two o'clock, staggering with sleepiness, he got up and went into a spare room, trailing the quilt after him and carrying his pillows, and finished the night in peace
4. Had Avdotya Romanovna been dressed like a queen, he felt that he would not be afraid of her, but perhaps just because she was poorly dressed and that he noticed all the misery of her surroundings, his heart was filled with dread and he began to be afraid of every word he uttered, every gesture he made, which was very trying for a man who already felt diffident
5. "Oh, dear," thought Meg, "married life is very trying, and does need infinite patience as well as love, as Mother says
6. It might seem no hardship to some of us, but to a pretty, blithe young girl, it was not only tedious, but very trying, and the thought of Laurie and his friends made it a real martyrdom
7. "Poor Marianne!" said her brother to Colonel Brandon, in a low voice, as soon as he could secure his attention,-- "She has not such good health as her sister,--she is very nervous,--she has not Elinor's constitution;--and one must allow that there is something very trying to a young woman who has been a beauty in the loss of her personal attractions
8. "He met me with the dog-cart at the station, and I saw at a glance that the last two months had been very trying ones for him
9. "Well, it's a very trying thing, you know," said Mr
10. Frodo had a very trying time that afternoon
11. “It was a very trying day, and I’m afraid in all the to-do of serving the children lunch and making sure they didn’t steal it from each other, I completely forgot that I needed to eat, too
12. ‘He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he’s getting very trying,’ said Prince
13. Latterly that private life had become very trying for Princess Mary
14. I think you'd find the Red Sea very trying
15. As we saw in the beginning of this chapter, stocks with low price-to-book ratios had some very trying times over the 84 years of our study
16. They had been long so arranged in the indulgence of her secret meditations, and nothing was more consolatory to her than to find her aunt using the same language: “I cannot but say I much regret your being from home at this distressing time, so very trying to my spirits
17. They had been long so arranged in the indulgence of her secret meditations, and nothing was more consolatory to her than to find her aunt using the same language: "I cannot but say I much regret your being from home at this distressing time, so very trying to my spirits
18. At first Toad was undoubtedly very trying to his careful guardians
19. He used to be on his knees praying for a whole day sometimes, which made the convicts respect him exceedingly during the remnant of life he had to pass there; he died under my eyes at the jail after a very trying illness
20. She goes up to Simon] Now tell me, my friend, what did you feel? Was it very trying?
21. ) Now tell me, my friend, what did you feel? Was it very trying?
22. It was very trying to Nekhludoff to listen to all this, so he returned to the question of arranging the amount and the terms of the rent
23. The journey up to Perm had been very trying to Maslova both morally and physically
24. To be continually in a state of fear and strife was very trying
25. "Yes, I think they are very trying," he said
26. But what do they want? A divorce? I told them long ago that I am quite willing; but the business of taking the blame on myself, and all the lies connected with it, are very trying
27. “He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he’s getting very trying,” said Prince Andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their father in order to puzzle or test his sister