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  • On a later flight, when they saw several sharks harassing six whales, they dove low over the water and shot at the sharks.†   (source)
  • They harassed one another as they played.†   (source)
  • "If you don't mind being harassed by my mother."†   (source)
  • "I've read about how Jews and non-Aryans were harassed and taxed punitively and had to give up everything to be allowed to leave the country."†   (source)
  • In fact, they harassed her—and the rest of us—so often that we eventually had to move.†   (source)
  • You could see it in the people in the neighborhood, intimidated by the drug dealers and gangs, harassed by the petty crime of the crackheads, and frightened by the sometimes arbitrary and aggressive behavior of the cops themselves.†   (source)
  • This Son, on the other hand, who goes hungry, who suffers from thirst, who gets tired, who is sad, who is anxious, who is heckled and harassed, who has to put up with followers who don't get it and opponents who don't respect Him—what kind of a god is that?†   (source)
  • The random stops, questioning, and harassment dramatically increase the risk of arrest for petty crimes.†   (source)
  • He, Ron, Fred, and George had just reached the first-floor landing on their way down to breakfast, when Mrs. Weasley appeared at the foot of the stairs, looking harassed.†   (source)
  • Some guys were …. sexually harassing me, sir.†   (source)
  • "Still, you won't have to worry about the old sexual harassment, eh?"†   (source)
  • "Eww, that was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen," Sticky said later, when the crisis had passed and the Executives were off harassing other children.†   (source)
  • It was actually worse having her mad at me than having her harass me.†   (source)
  • We assembled in groups according to our barracks' number and were counted and recounted while short-tempered, cruel guards harassed us.†   (source)
  • Drinking was punishable by dismissal, but Owen argued that getting other students drunk should be a more punishable offense than solitary drinking; also, that most forms of drinking were "NOT AS DESTRUCTIVE AS THE ALMOST-ROUTINE HARASSMENT.†   (source)
  • They both came back at six o'clock, harassed and foul-tempered, looking first for snacks and tea, later for a major dinner.†   (source)
  • Small clans of Redd's soldiers lolled outside abandoned cafes, drunk on wine and harassing the few Wonderlanders who braved the streets, hurrying to their destinations with lowered heads, intent on keeping to their own business.†   (source)
  • Anything could happen—a drive-by shooting, a fight, police harassment.†   (source)
  • All he kept telling me was to not be afraid and if I was harassed to ask for a lawyer right away.†   (source)
  • His aunt, Uma Maima, presides in the kitchen all morning, harassing the servants as they squat by the drain scouring the dirty dishes with ash, or pound heaps of spices on slabs that resemble tombstones.†   (source)
  • He is not to engage the northerners until we arrive, but I want him to harass their flanks and draw them farther south.†   (source)
  • Years of harassment at school had rendered him even more close-tongued and uncommunicative—less apt to employ Lovecraftian vocabulary words, more prone to entomb himself in advanced-placement math and science.†   (source)
  • I asked Lilly why he was so mad, and she said because he'd been sexually harassing me but I didn't notice.†   (source)
  • And let you harass me some more?†   (source)
  • A few years ago I read he'd been accused of sexual harassment by a former patient.†   (source)
  • Continued harassment was also taking its toll of her.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Galbatorix hired mercenaries to harass us.†   (source)
  • My job was to pump gas, change tires, fix flats, and generally keep out of Herman's way, which I more or less did, but I got into a fist-fight with one of his friends, a scar-faced, scratch-a-match-in-the-palm-of-his-hand homosexual who was harassing me.†   (source)
  • They will not be harassed in any way.†   (source)
  • It's just that she's harassing me like a hundred times a day.†   (source)
  • For decades, Colonel Kassad, forces of the TechnoCore had been harassing the Ouster swarms wherever they fled.†   (source)
  • So I was trapped in the ER, waiting, harassed by Tyler's constant apologies and promises to make it up to me.†   (source)
  • They decided to move forward with Michael on a need-to-know basis: if they needed to know some detail about his past, she harassed Michael until he gave her an answer.†   (source)
  • He said he was addressing those who really wanted this kind of life, those who could put up with every kind of harassment those instructors at the back of the room could possibly dish out.†   (source)
  • "Is this man harassing you?" she asked.†   (source)
  • The manager finally arrived, a small bald harassed-looking man.†   (source)
  • My first rocket had caused me to be harassed on the school bus, at school, and now in my own room.†   (source)
  • Don't have their own police force-no immigration control-undesirables can walk right in without being frisked or even harassed.†   (source)
  • As part of the settlement, the company paid the women $900,000 and vowed to establish formal procedures for handling sexual harassment complaints.†   (source)
  • This, Paul thought, was nothing more than blatant harassment.†   (source)
  • Another proceeded to harass us.†   (source)
  • Until then, I'll be watching to see that neither my son nor his friend is harassed.†   (source)
  • Jane turned and recognized the chestnut hair: It was Charles Livingston, the law student Yetta had harassed back in the spring.†   (source)
  • So that new policemen on the beat would have no trouble identifying whom to harass.†   (source)
  • She heaved a sigh as they pulled alongside and discovered that the men looked like harassed accountants.†   (source)
  • By this time, Josh was so smitten that he was willing to put up with any harassment and took what she dished out in stride.†   (source)
  • The harassment log.†   (source)
  • I am just about to flee the dining hall rather than participate in careful, polite Abnegation conversation when Tobias comes in, looking harassed.†   (source)
  • The Blue Book Boys, they drink, drug, harass people.†   (source)
  • The only thing she regretted was not having the courage of other harassed maidens, who emptied their chamber pots on the heads of unwanted suitors.†   (source)
  • On my side I had Tyson, Corey Bailer the computer geek, Raj Mandali the calculus whiz, and a half dozen other kids who always got harassed by Sloan and his gang.†   (source)
  • She was adept in creating any number of hair styles, but each one left her with a pinched and harassed look.†   (source)
  • "Don't talk nonsense, Timothy," I said "D'evil spirit harass an' meliss us," he said daddy.†   (source)
  • They didn't harass tourists, not unless they looked in a suitcase and found a copy of Graham Greene's mordant, anti-Duvalierist novel of Haiti, The Comedians.†   (source)
  • In those days she did not know what the word "harassment" meant, but when she came to school the next day, the boy had threatened revenge.†   (source)
  • Fallen angels roam the Earth looking for human bodies to harass and control.†   (source)
  • His mother had not needed to ask him why; she knew that although he understood only hazily the reasons for the uproar around him, he felt endangered by it-by the harassing telephone, and the strangers at the door, and his father's worry-wearied eyes.†   (source)
  • How about harassment-phone calls, letters, threats?†   (source)
  • The authorities had been harassing Winnie in the belief that she would know whether or not I was back.†   (source)
  • One of the listeners, a tall pimple-faced guy with blotchy cheeks and the skin of a fig, only paler, shouted out, "Pinches gavachos don't give a damn about harassing us!†   (source)
  • Eventually, some members of the refugee community became so fed up with what they saw as harassment from Nelson's force that they decided to act.†   (source)
  • Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.†   (source)
  • We paused while a sleek, silver-gray cat chased a smaller, harassed-looking tabby across the hall in front of us.†   (source)
  • There were about 15,000 felonies on the system a year — a number that would hit 20,000 a year by the end of the decade — and harassment of riders by panhandlers and petty criminals was so pervasive that ridership of the trains had sunk to its lowest level in the history of the subway system.†   (source)
  • Lindsay says Mr. Daimler's going to sue me for harassment one day.†   (source)
  • They made a point of harassing the camp controllers at every turn, hurting the PSFs, setting their cabins and the Washrooms on fire, trying to talk their way out of the gate or driving the adults insane by putting images of murdered families or cheating wives in their heads.†   (source)
  • Finn immediately made enemies among the Camp prisoners and staff by demanding a private office and harassing the orderlies about the quality of their floor-waxing.†   (source)
  • We will not harass their nearby fleet units.†   (source)
  • Chuckie scanned the switches and harassed his buddy, encouraging marriage to a decent woman with church affiliations.†   (source)
  • Bad things are happening all around—theft, harassment, worse.†   (source)
  • But it also brought harassment from the government.†   (source)
  • The Italian government told the UN to stop harassing Aidid.†   (source)
  • In pool competency, students must perform specific tasks underwater—sometimes with mask, fins, and dive gear; sometimes without—displaying perfect technical procedures without panic while being harassed, to the point of near drowning, by the instructors.†   (source)
  • She recognized the manipulation for what it was, and while her emotions cried out for retribution on her behalf and that of sexually harassed women everywhere, her pragmatic side asserted itself.†   (source)
  • Rearming and refueling problems and Japanese mortar harassment had kept them pinned down.†   (source)
  • The officials are terribly harassed with the whole thing and exasperated with individual demands for attention.†   (source)
  • Instead, he harassed me with condemnations.†   (source)
  • He rummaged through Rosa's drawers, questioned the servants one by one, and harassed Nana until she was beside herself; finally his search led to the decanter of brandy, which he requisitioned instantly.†   (source)
  • They were bullied, insulted, harassed and shoved about all day long by one after the other.†   (source)
  • And unless you back off and stop harassing my friend, you're gonna find out just how dangerous I can be.†   (source)
  • "If you continue to harass us," she said calmly, "I'll put your head through the wall."†   (source)
  • "Why do you harass me like this?" he said, the fire gone from his voice.†   (source)
  • The Arabs were attacking Jewish settlements in the Upper Galilee, the Negev and around Jerusalem, and were incessantly harassing supply convoys.†   (source)
  • They reached an out-of-court settlement on the harassment suit.†   (source)
  • She was not harassed or threatened at any time.†   (source)
  • As he would explain succinctly to John Hancock, "I well knew we could not reach it [Trenton] before day was fairly broke, but as I was certain there was no making a retreat without being discovered, and harassed on repassing the river, I determined to push on at all events."†   (source)
  • And I will not have the press speculating that this department harasses grieving parents, or why the primary resisted required testing after a termination.†   (source)
  • He knows the license-plate number and is having it radioed to all the Paris police patrols to report it if seen, but not to stop the car or harass the driver.†   (source)
  • It was then that I understood why I had been constantly harassed and forced to carry the load more than others: I was being tested.†   (source)
  • He sat in the business-class lounge and for a couple of hours enjoyed the camaraderie of a growing band of harassed executives, each pursuing his or her own self-important path to a coronary.†   (source)
  • With the murder rate soaring, rape almost as common as romance, and robbery so prevalent that half the populace seemed to be stealing from the other half, the cops would not waste time harassing him for drinking an alcoholic beverage on a public beach.†   (source)
  • It felt really good knowing that we eliminated Taliban fighters harassing the outpost.†   (source)
  • The latter needed to remove the police chief of the sixth district because he was too honest to take bribes and so had persisted in harassing the gambling houses the director owned.†   (source)
  • We've been expecting a real ambush somewhere on the way, but it's been sniping and harassing all the time.†   (source)
  • Eddis harassed the army but was unwilling to waste her soldiers, her most precious resource.†   (source)
  • He wanted to harass me about the stupid article.†   (source)
  • He immediately instructs Paine to tell Marina that he's not there for the purpose of "harming her, harassing her, and that it isn't the job of the FBI to harm people.†   (source)
  • In my neighborhood, the police never get out of their cars unless it is to arrest someone or harass them with questions.†   (source)
  • He had stringy hair, a wide mouth and an elastic age range that made him look like a harassed forty or an unusually vigorous sixty.†   (source)
  • Large numbers of police officers in yellow rain slickers were on duty, because a Puerto Rican parade a few years before had ended in a riot when youths ran amok in Central Park, harassing and groping women.†   (source)
  • That Esu-harassed day slipped into the stewpot while we feasted.†   (source)
  • A man reportedly harassed several flight attendants before walking to the first-aid station, hanging his coat on the rack, and leaving.†   (source)
  • But when the harassment of the plebe system became familiar, it also became tedious.†   (source)
  • Everyone else was out of the office and he had no one to spook or harass.†   (source)
  • Though the Italians harassed the nocturnal re-supply and reinforcement with constant artillery fire, it neither stopped nor slackened.†   (source)
  • He looked worried and harassed.†   (source)
  • Theodore Freak is harassing me.†   (source)
  • Green, on the other hand, took obvious pleasure in harassing and humiliating Baker every chance he got.†   (source)
  • The majority is what is defined as harassing fire.†   (source)
  • The harassed wolf turned, leaped high into the air, and snapped at one of the skis.†   (source)
  • Ta-Kumsaw immediately depoloyed his men to harass the enemy.†   (source)
  • I harassed Mary Elizabeth every time she had a sugar attack and urged the family to eat fruit instead.†   (source)
  • Obviously thinking I might harass him, he pulled something from his jacket and I heard a click.†   (source)
  • The fat kid, looking harassed, climbed up on the bar and started calling names and throwing envelopes into the crowd.†   (source)
  • She began to giggle, for he had gone into a very low-key comedy routine, his accent all of a sudden profoundly and luxuriously Yiddish as he catalogued the bottles and cans and cardboard cartons pouring forth from the bag, his face furrowed in a perfect replica of some elderly harassed, purblind, nervously parsimonious Flatbush storekeeper.†   (source)
  • A body of men the size of ours could not be allowed to deviate sufficiently to try to deal with the harassing raids Julian led against our flanks.†   (source)
  • Yvette looked less harassed; energy returned to her.†   (source)
  • He nodded to De Santis, the harassed Lab Chief, who inquired in an overwrought voice: "One to one?"†   (source)
  • The harassment of the hamlets and villages is part of the whole movement.†   (source)
  • Well, they'll have a bed, anyway," said Mrs. Weasley, sounding slightly harassed.†   (source)
  • They have no reason to harass us, but ….†   (source)
  • "She isn't actually harassing us, though, is she?" he said.†   (source)
  • As my feet touched the ground, Timothy hugged me, yelling, "D'palm harass us no more."†   (source)
  • Without fail, we knew we could expect some form of harassment.†   (source)
  • Supposing Josh Richter starts sexually harassing me someday (I wish) and I don't notice?†   (source)
  • What does "sexually harass" mean to you?†   (source)
  • Harry saw Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Ron, and Hermione grouped around a harassed-looking Madam Pomfrey.†   (source)
  • The problem was that the harassment was out of all proportion to the content of the story.†   (source)
  • She went down to his biological mother's apartment and harassed her for pictures.†   (source)
  • Vega, you got some major balls harassing my girl.†   (source)
  • If they want to bad enough, they gon harass a blessing from you if it kill.†   (source)
  • What was noticeably different was the frequency and the organized pattern of harassment.†   (source)
  • He's right, of course, about the harassment thing.†   (source)
  • " 'tis a good ting not to harass d'soul ovah dis.†   (source)
  • Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.†   (source)
  • Another group must have been told to practice insidious harassment inside the classrooms.†   (source)
  • In all dis harassment wid d'shark, I did forget."†   (source)
  • Twenty of those have been for harassment of misfit pupils, I might add.†   (source)
  • You're opening yourself up to a major sexual harassment lawsuit.†   (source)
  • "Good Lord, you're being sexually harassed at work."†   (source)
  • The harassment never stopped, even at night-especially at night.†   (source)
  • It was the story of a stag who could not drink at a pond because a magpie kept harassing him.†   (source)
  • Beans and the guys hated Dorothy and harassed her whenever they got the chance.†   (source)
  • They would annoy you, harass you, take your …. treasures.†   (source)
  • Is it standard police procedure to harass innocent people in their own homes?†   (source)
  • Don't worry about that–I'm not going to let anybody harass you.†   (source)
  • He chose seats near the front where he'd be in better position to harass the teacher.†   (source)
  • The does, harassed and bony two days before, were beginning to look quite sleek.†   (source)
  • Maybe Aphrodite would not show up tonight, or be there but forget to harass me.†   (source)
  • He could only do ten after a month of sustained harassment.†   (source)
  • Technically, I could report you for harassment.†   (source)
  • Someone, for some unknown reason, had decided to harass her.†   (source)
  • "She's already asked for one-harassed me is more appropriate.†   (source)
  • The Italian artillery had been active for weeks in harassing the Austrian build-up.†   (source)
  • "We'd harass them so much they'd never accomplish anything.†   (source)
  • Aside from the sexual harassment concern.†   (source)
  • But do not contact them, or follow them, or frighten them, or in any way harass them.†   (source)
  • There were haphazard detentions, and a steady campaign of harassment.†   (source)
  • 'Madonn'!' cried his friends, rolling their harassed eyes up toward the ceiling.†   (source)
  • As soon as the Argo II had passed into the straits, Anion broke off his harassment.†   (source)
  • Never before have I been so harassed by one of my sons.†   (source)
  • And, indeed, Union cavalry repeatedly harass the rear of Lee's exhausted column.†   (source)
  • Any contact in less than one week's time will be defined as harassment."†   (source)
  • "If Sounis had someone else to harass, he'd have less time to devote to Attolia.†   (source)
  • If they came across Palmer in the street or at the park, they continued to harass him.†   (source)
  • We will harass the enemy with guerrilla actions until the last of us has perished.†   (source)
  • On top of everything, the instructors poured on the stress with verbal harassment.†   (source)
  • The state did its utmost to harass me in ways they thought I would be powerless to resist.†   (source)
  • She shakes her head in disbelief, then moves away to harass other partners.†   (source)
  • One week after that she filed a sexual harassment complaint with Equal Employment.†   (source)
  • The 28th had moved out at nine A.M. By nine-thirty it was taking harassing fire from the rear.†   (source)
  • I said that someone had faked your address and is obviously harassing her.†   (source)
  • Winnie and Zindzi were under constant police surveillance and intermittent harassment.†   (source)
  • Was it a warning that she should change her middle name in America so she wasn't harassed?†   (source)
  • Nothing existed at the corners of my mind; no irritating thoughts harassed me.†   (source)
  • 'Va fongul!' his girl replied, rolling her harassed eyes up toward the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Now Wade Lanier had found a black woman who sued Seth for sexual harassment.†   (source)
  • You can't have dark skin and a new car in Clarkston without harassment.†   (source)
  • Some girl, Ulla something, who was also a temp, claimed that he sexually harassed her.†   (source)
  • Winnie had been under constant harassment since her first visit in 1964.†   (source)
  • Touch her, and she'll crack your teeth, then sue me for sexual harassment.†   (source)
  • Wirmie was not the only wife being harassed.†   (source)
  • Nirriti stirs within his dark lair; he harasses the seaways of the south.†   (source)
  • "There's a certain harassed style," she said, "you get to recognize.†   (source)
  • He was broken, harassed, and impoverished because of this.†   (source)
  • It was harassment, and the purpose was money, and money fast, before everything changed.†   (source)
  • Civil rights workers risked being harassed in their hotel rooms.†   (source)
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