"I dunno," said the plaguesome boy, looking at the address covertly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

"Permit me to warn you, brother mine, that this wooing business is definitely plaguesome.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady of Expectations]

The lawyer took good care to speak to none but his principals concerning that plaguesome deed of appointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

Therefore he spurred his willing horse against the hill, and up the many-winding ruggedness of road, hoping, at every turn, to descry in the distance the vehicle carrying that very plaguesome box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

Instead of getting steadier, he grows more plaguesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference

For although she was not given, any more than other young people are, to plaguesome self-inspection, she could not help feeling that she was no longer the playful young Dolly that she loved so well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference

"Ye plaguesome brat!" cried Auntie; "there has Betty been seekin 'ye, and I hae been seekin' ye, far an 'near, i' the verra rottan-holes; an 'here ye are, on yer ain father's buryin' day, that comes but ance -- takin 'up wi' a coo.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

But it happened about this time that a grave was dug, a grave of unusual depth, to be ready, in that fiery plaguesome weather, the first heat of veritable summer come suddenly, for the body of an ancient villager then at the point of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays] Reference

Lady Anna -- who could think but little of her birth -- to whom it had been throughout her life a thing plaguesome rather than profitable -- could remember only what she had been in Cumberland, and her binding obligation to the tailor's son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Anna] Reference

That plaguesome Polypheme was Captain Stubbard, begirt with a wife, and endowed with a family almost in excess of benediction, and dancing attendance upon Miss Dolly, too stoutly for his own comfort, in the hope of procuring for his own Penates something to eat and to sit upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference

“As if I had not got my hands too full already, now I am in for another plaguesome business, which will cost a lot of money, instead of bringing money in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

You and me is pards to the end, ol’ hoss—and until this plaguesome business is all took care of, I will cling to you as tight as a snapping turtle to a fisherman’s toe!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

As though possessed of a preternatural faculty that permitted him access to my innermost thoughts, the frontiersman declared, Aye, Cricket, it’s a mighty plaguesome state of affairs, and no mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

Lady Anna — who could think but little of her birth — to whom it had been throughout her life a thing plaguesome rather than profitable — could remember only what she had been in Cumberland, and her binding obligation to the tailor’s son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Anna] Reference