Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.    From LearnThat.org.  [William Faulkner (1897-1962);American novelist; winner of Nobel Prize for literature]

A spot of bother.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A bit of a bother.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Does the impression the New York senator can't win bother her?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why West Virginians turned out for Clinton] Reference

Years of being “in bother” makes saying nothing as natural as breathing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday Night In Out-Patients « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

Why, in short, bother with facts or complex compromises when one can jump to the reaction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

They say, he's ambitious, does that word bother you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Strom Thurmond, July 1978. Interview A-0334. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

But the bother is a fellow doesn't know what to do. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way We Live Now] Reference

As far as the progressive thing, frankly, labels bother me a lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues] Reference

And on the market we don’t get any bother from the stall owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 February « Scavenging] Reference

Rated a hard-R for language -- if threats and the f-word bother you, don't watch it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrible, But ...] Reference

Do you think you’ll get in bother for it boss? on May 2, 2008 at 2: 16 am | Reply Bobby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Please don’t send me to Canada! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

Never a moments bother from the kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPCC To Investigate Barwell Deaths « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

His bother is a better actor then Ben.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Statham Wants to Play Daredevil, Frank Miller Agrees « FirstShowing.net] Reference

Some people eg LOLs just don't want to "bother" us.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Open Request to Everyone Who Works in an Emergency Room] Reference

Travel by ship always involves some kind of bother, I think.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flotilla raid diary: 'A man is shot. I am seeing it happen'] Reference

There was never much "bother," as the British say, in Finsbury Park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Londonistan Calling] Reference

You wouldn't "bother" to be funny just because you like to be amused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Where did you get the idea that your 'bother' might be of any concern?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wingnut welfare and pearl clutching: a match made in heaven.] Reference

Why don't you relax, come over here, and let me "bother" you for awhile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dennis Perrin: Tucker Carlson is...Straight Man!] Reference

Sometimes I'm asked why I "bother" with my nonprofit boards and other volunteer work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marilyn M. Machlowitz: Why Volunteer?] Reference

He had a private office at Amblin' and Joe and I had unofficial orders to not "bother" him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donald and Daffy Followup] Reference

Does the liberal label bother you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2001] Reference

Why would you let a word bother you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference

"He won't hev the s'ciety folks t 'bother' im now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution] Reference

But the bother is a fellow doesn’t know what to do.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way We Live Now] Reference

The Canada AM poll asks whether the budget leaks "bother" you.    From Wordnik.com.  [small dead animals] Reference

When my wife said "bother," it was, I was aware, of no use to argue with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fixed Period] Reference

If by "bother" you mean the fact that my firefox crashed ... then I will say yes.    From Wordnik.com.  [PCLinuxOS-Forums] Reference

Chelsea had Secret Service protections, they made sure the media didn't "bother" her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

They're just a band but it's looking like it won't cause any bother which is all good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toytown Germany - Germany feed] Reference

Any personal entanglement might mean "bother," and bother was the thing she most abhorred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Custom of the Country] Reference

'Does the idea bother you?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

These slanted terms bother me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deja vu all over again - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Why does that word bother me so much?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Obama administration is increasingly concerned about a populist backlash against..."] Reference

"bother" less negligible than those he had relieved her of?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Custom of the Country] Reference

"bother" herself with a finger that still didn't have a ring on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News] Reference

'urinated upon' to express my 'bother' and as a verb for 'punishment'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

They were brazen-police said they didn't even bother with masks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illegal Motion Doesn't Begin To Describe This] Reference

If it's going to be just another part of a star-studded extravaganza, don't bother with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh, Say, Can You Sing?] Reference