Adjective : troublous times. ,a troublous sea. ,a troublous preacher. From Dictionary.com.
The feverish hours pass troublously, but there is no response in the night of the City of Unrest. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
Volubly, troublously, the late clock sounded, coming in on the wake of Big Ben, with its lap full of trifles. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Dalloway] Reference
The Grand-Duke's greeting was gracious in the extreme; and five minutes of condolences and conventionalities passed between them before Ivan, driven by the recollection of infinite work to be begun, precipitated that subject to which his Highness was troublously leading up. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
What she read in my looks must have been troublously impressive. From Wordnik.com. [Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story] Reference
This saw I bodily, troublously and darkly; and I desired more bodily sight, to have seen more clearly. From Wordnik.com. [Revelations of Divine Love] Reference
BUT in this I stood beholding things general, troublously and mourning, saying thus to our Lord in my meaning, with full great dread: Ah! good. From Wordnik.com. [Revelations of Divine Love] Reference
But while his soul was so troublously struggling through the network of the days, another soul, eager and serene, was watching all his desperate efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
While Raby that night dreamed troublously of the events of the day, a soldier was sitting in his tent near Kandahar, some four thousand or more miles away, reading a letter. From Wordnik.com. [A Dog with a Bad Name] Reference
If doubts, a vague uneasiness relative to the afternoon, still fretted the hinterlands of her mind (and they did), she was much too well trained, too resolute withal, to let them appear troublously upon the surface. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
A revolt in Sicily in the year 1282, commonly called the Sicilian Vespers, had severed the relation between the island and the mainland, the former passing to the royal family of Aragon, and the latter troublously remaining in French hands until 1442. From Wordnik.com. [A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.] Reference
Elfride looked troublously at the trees. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
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