Recently, I peppered her with emails (perhaps "pestered" would be a better word): What does the air smell like in April?. From Wordnik.com. [On Sight] Reference
Aunty is "pestered" (as she calls it) to death by people wanting me to sing for their charities. From Wordnik.com. [In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters] Reference
Jurors heard Mr Duchene challenged Wills after Ms Haddlesey was "pestered" as she walked to a taxi after leaving the concert. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
If I pestered my generals, I'd just distract them. From Wordnik.com. [Schwarzkopf] Reference
"Why aren't you running for president?" she pestered. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutionary] Reference
Lord Dalhousie was pestered with considerable ingenuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Ten years ago, he told her, men pestered him like flies. From Wordnik.com. [Hymen] Reference
He pressed her, he urged her, he stuck to her, he pestered her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
But Ben nagged and pestered and insisted that "everyone has one.". From Wordnik.com. [The Power of No] Reference
Tom must needs pick it up, and you have no idea how he pestered me. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
"He says she knows enough; an 'he ain't goin' t 'have her pestered.". From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
He admitted that he was being pestered out of his wits by the curious. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
I have been pestered from deputations and speeches since the Land League. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
They get pestered by alumni, donors, parents: Why isn't our school higher?. From Wordnik.com. [Cynicism 101] Reference
I'd be responsible for you, so we can work together without being pestered. From Wordnik.com. [The Brand of Silence A Detective Story] Reference
One man pestered YouTube into removing 20 video montages of the still images. From Wordnik.com. [The Catsouras Conundrum: An Update To Our May 4 Story] Reference
How had she the presumption to have pestered him with her degrading troubles!. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Lionel is pestered by his aunt, who wants him to move back to the reservation. From Wordnik.com. [Life Off The Reservation] Reference
"Are you pestered about that word I sent Creed Bonbright by you?" she whispered. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
The Captain is pestered with questions about the date and time of arrival at Basrah. From Wordnik.com. [With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917] Reference
She didn't want no help 'long o 'him who had deserted her, an' I never pestered her none. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
I never see them dese days but I'd rather have them than dis boll weevil I's pestered wid. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Bennett pestered the staff of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham into doing some lab tests. From Wordnik.com. [Britain's Accidental Inventor] Reference
He has pestered me to get back there ever since I showed him over the place the day he arrived. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
Maxine's mother always wanted to know when they planned on having children, pestered her constantly. From Wordnik.com. [Booming] Reference
Now and then the old woman would call us a miserable lot of wretches she was pestered to take care of. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Then turning to the executioner, he said, "Let me not be pestered with these men, but perform your duty.". From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Isn't it enough to be pestered by the police and the papers, and all the damnable business for the inquest?. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
I'm now pestered to go out "butterflying" after tea (which turns into a general mess about in our local nature area). From Wordnik.com. [Is it OK to use a butterfly net?] Reference
If I had had it in my power, I would have left the carriage; for I was in no frame of mind to be pestered by a popinjay. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
MR. CORSAN: He might show me a few of them, but I have been pestered with them for years, and this year I haven't got any. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
We drove on twenty-two miles in the afternoon, and, being all down wind, were pestered with mosquitoes and most fearfully bitten. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
She didn 'keer nuffin fer' im, but he pestered her so she ha 'ter th'eaten ter tell her marster fer ter make Wiley let her' lone. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
My visa service, which will probably charge me double next time since I pestered them so much, agreed to FedEx my passport to Frankfurt. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Guillebeau: Getting to Algiers] Reference
I am one of those anglers who hate being pestered by advice when playing a fish, and never pretend to choose my words to the interrupter. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Lin sat the children down quickly, "thinkin 'it was some of the tarnel brats that had pestered the show tent ever since Alfred started it.". From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
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