tracasserie

• The Duchess of Fitz-Fulke, who loved 'tracasserie,' —  Don Juan
• The Duchess of Fitz-Fulke, who loved _tracasserie_, —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
• It contained, as they say an acorn includes all the ramifications of the future oak, as many seeds of tracasserie and intrigue as might have done honour to the court of a large empire. —  Waverley — Volume 2
• It was Major Hunter, of the Guards, with whom I had had a little tracasserie, because I hinted that he should not come into —  Rodney Stone
• There are good reasons for so doing; and, among others, is that of abstaining from arming a clique to calumniate her commander, (who, by the way, like another commander in the Gulf that might be named, and who has actually been exposed to the sort of tracasserie to which there is allusion, is one of the very ablest men in the service,) in order to put another in his place. —  Jack Tier

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