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Troublous times fell on the church very soon after its erection, and, as
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Troublous times had come, and the mutterings of discontent were voicing themselves in more and more articulate phrase.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various
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Troublous as is their existence, they preserve until old age that playful joy of life, that carefree ignoring of danger, which we find in our children -- which, alas, we lose too soon.
The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��
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Troublous times befell Rome during the struggle that broke out in Italy between the Ostrogoths and the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Truly, this period can be labeled "The Troublous Period."
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I had a gloomy Fancy that Reason would not dismiss, that in these Troublous Times there were Things outside of the Ball room Door, striving to enter, which having done, they would have proved of singular Inappositeness.
A Christmas Accident and Other Stories Annie Eliot Trumbull 1903
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Troublous days appeared to be impending for the Senate, and rumours of War, -- war sometimes apparently imminent, and again suddenly averted, -- had from time to time worried the public through the Press.
Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889
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Step by step they caused her to turn, until she reached Troublous
Polly A New-Fashioned Girl L. T. Meade 1884
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Nurse elected, as usual, to stay at home with baby, for nothing would induce her to allow this treasured little mortal out of her own keeping; but the Doctor promised, if possible, to join the children at Troublous
Polly A New-Fashioned Girl L. T. Meade 1884
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Troublous Times Castle she had not encountered an individual, but now, as she stepped forward, a man suddenly arose from his lair in the grass and confronted her.
Polly A New-Fashioned Girl L. T. Meade 1884
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