How To Use troublous In A Sentence
- So why then is a government supposedly devoted to fostering British science still insisting on forcing some of its leading researchers into Dickens's ‘perplexed and troublous valley of the shadow of the law’?
- “Why, well,” said the youth, “if the abbot is a man of respectability becoming his vocation, and not one of those swaggering churchmen, who stretch out the sword, and bear themselves like rank soldiers in these troublous times.” Castle Dangerous
- This is that which is, in short, foretold to Daniel here, in reference to Jerusalem: that though it would be a troublous time, in which such a work should be attempted and carried on; yet the work should be carried on, and completed notwithstanding. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
- these are troublous times
- With the capitalist country's aggression , the contradiction of national and the class and also all kinds of contradictories in society, the political in Mongolia become troublous more and more.
- Hume certainly would not have accepted the "rice theory" in explanation of the social state of the Hindoos; and, it may be safely assumed, that he would not have had recourse to the circumambience of the "melancholy main" to account for the troublous history of Ireland. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
- He muttered something that a snaffle was the safest bit a sinner could place faith in -- assumed the mantle of prophecy -- foretold, as it would appear, troublous times to be in rapid advent -- and inculcated that faith should be placed in heaven, and powder kept very dry. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
- Aristotle saith that of brimstone that is boisterous and not swiftly pured, but troublous and thick, and of quicksilver, the substance of lead is gendered, and is gendered in mineral places; so of uncleanness of impure brimstone lead hath a manner of neshness, and smircheth his hand that toucheth it. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
- They dispatched the past in a cheery talk; for the face of each was enough to show that it might have been troublous — as all past is — but had slidden into quiet satisfaction now, and a gentle flow of experience. Mary Anerley
- The ah, China, really is a troublous times this year.