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Hicks, hurling whistles, shouts, cat-calls, songs and humorous remarks at the downfallen kicker, one of Hicks 'celebrated inspirations had smitten the pestersome Junior, evidently jarred loose by his crashing to terra firma.

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

It was actually the first Caruso-like outburst of the pestersome youth that year, but his saengerfest brought vociferous howls of protest from campus and dormitories:

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

"Now what's ailin '< i > you ?" demanded Butch wrathily, believing the pestersome Hicks to be acting in that burglarious manner for effect.

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

T. Haviland Hicks, Jr. He clutched his pestersome banjo and was vigorously strumming the strings and apparently howling a ballad, lost in the unearthly turmoil.

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

No one had the slightest knowledge of where the cheery Hicks could be; they missed his singing and banjo strumming, his pestersome ways, his cheerful good nature, his cozy quarters always open house to all, and his Hicks 'Personally

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

Intensely pacified by this knowledge, he lumbered toward the bunkhouse door and flung it open, determined to crush the pestersome youth who thus unfeelingly disturbed the quietude of Camp Bannister at such an unearthly hour!

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

The students forgave him his pestersome ways, his frequent torturing of them with banjo-twanging and rollicking ballads.

T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice

I tried to convert the clustering mendicants into barbarian prisoners clanking by, chained at wrist and neck and ankle; I sought to imagine the pestersome flower venders as being vestal virgins; the two unkempt policemen who loafed nearby, as centurions of the guard; the passing populace as grave senators in snowy togas; the flaunting underwear on the many clotheslines as silken banners and gilded trappings.

Europe Revised 1910

For Mullinix there was a short delay downstairs because the doorman, sharp on the lookout to bar pestersome intruders who might annoy the tenants, could not at first make up his mind about Mullinix.

From Place to Place 1910

Meanwhile, the girls are reeling from the fallout from the homecoming dance, and Aria is getting texts from someone besides the pestersome "A."

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