"Harassment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he shared with the family over, he would retire, preferring silence and, generally pretended, absorption in his book to the obtrusion of his conversation on the widow and her daughters. But in the harassment of the time of mincemeat the lodger's shyness evaporated or his reserve broke down. He could not see women, dropping with sleep and weariness, working themselves half to death over their hated tasks while he sat at ease with his pipe ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... promptly dismissed the case, but Mr. Farrelly had no redress for the expense, the harassment, and lost time incident to this unjust arrest. Since then Mr. Britton has had much trouble with the courts and officers of law, who thoroughly distrust the man.[3] He, however, has been posing as a virtuous martyr, declaring that the police and judiciary are all subsidized: that it ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various
... hills, with its own little triumphs and defeats, its own heartaches and rejoicings; a lucky little world, because its triumphs had been satisfying, its defeats small, its heartaches brief, and its rejoicings untainted with harassment or guilt. Yet Andy stared down upon it with a frown; and, when he twitched the reins and began the descent, he ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... faced about again after the interval of abstraction there were fine lines of harassment between his eyes, and his words came as if speech were costing him a ...
— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde
... bombardment and harassment of Quemoy should be converted into a major assault, with which the local defenders could not cope, then we would be compelled to face precisely the situation ...
— The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area • John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower
... night was clear and moonlit, although a heavy fog towards daybreak prolonged the period of secrecy which shrouded the retreat. When the fog rose, the last detachment was discovered crossing, but a few ineffectual cannon-shot were the only harassment experienced by the Americans in the course of this rapid and dexterous retirement. The garrison of Governor's Island was withdrawn at ...
— The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence • A. T. Mahan |
