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Troubled in sentence

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The strike at the Voreux troubled her while she was working at Jean-Bart, and she had only been able to think of this way of helping her parents a little, under the pretext of caring for the little ones.
The young man was silent, with his mouth full, and felt troubled.
This impunity troubled them, at the thought of the repression which they felt to be coming.
This responsibility troubled him in spite of his habitual energy.
Did he still desire her, that he felt so troubled, gradually warmed at the heart by a fresh longing?
But much they troubled about a sick horse at such time as this!
With his awkward hands he unfastened her dress, troubled by the odour of musk which her open bodice exhaled.
This question troubled him, although he settled it like a man who is satisfied with his knowledge.
?""Professor, that troubled me, because it's one of the best ships in the gallant American navy, but they attacked me and I had to defend myself!
They were no more disturbed by the presence of these man-eaters than soldiers in an armored fortress are troubled by ants running over the armor plate.
"My c-a-p," timidly said the "new fellow," casting troubled looks round him.
The sight of his form troubled the voluptuousness of this mediation.
Emma lived all absorbed in hers, and troubled no more about money matters than an archduchess.
Julien was not the only person whose heart was troubled by his arrival in this household.
M. de Renal's self-esteem was troubled; so far from having any thought of examining the tutor, he was engaged in ransacking his memory for a few words of Latin; at last, he managed to quote a line of Horace.
This troubled her, for her womanly instinct made her realise that his embarrassment was not in the least degree amorous.
Troubled, no longer conscious of what he was doing, he moved his cheek in the direction of this pretty arm, and made bold to press his lips to it.
She will begin to love me again when her brain is no longer troubled by ideas of caste.'
'I shall go to the village, and return with a troubled countenance; I shall indeed be greatly troubled.
This journey was decided upon at two hours' notice, he seemed greatly troubled.
You are fully dressed,' said M. de Renal, as he entered; 'you are having supper, and you have locked your door?'On any ordinary day, this question, put with all the brutality of a husband, would have troubled Madame de Renal, but she felt that her husband had only to lower his eyes a little to catch sight of Julien; for M. de Renal had flung himself upon the chair on which Julien had been sitting a moment earlier, facing the sofa.
M. de Fervaques grew troubled, and, being able to think of nothing but elegant phrases, in place of ideas, began to smirk; Mathilde, who was out of temper, treated him cruelly, and made an enemy of him.
This question would have troubled him little when he was ambitious; then, not to succeed in life was the only disgrace in his eyes.
Later, she will awake: suddenly, as she reads, she will grow troubled; her lovely hand will tremble; she will come to the words: _At five minutes past ten he had ceased to live_.
"I thought myself safe, then, but the information of my sister fills me with uneasiness, and I cannot eat.""You have less reason to be troubled now than at any time since the night before you were taken, when you refused my advice, and an offer to see you in safety," returned the peddler.
She wondered; then she was just a grain troubled; next a dim suspicion came and went--came again; she watched; a furtive glance told her worlds--and then her heart broke, and she was jealous, and angry, and the tears came and she hated everybody.
The hooting of a distant owl was all the sound that troubled the dead stillness.
They waited a time that seemed an age, and then the same muffled boom troubled the solemn hush.
Every time he stole a glance at the girls' side of the room Becky's face troubled him.
In short, if he had known me, and how easy the trifle he aimed at was to be had, he would have troubled his head no farther, but have given me four or five guineas, and have lain with me the next time he had come at me.
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