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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)
  • Those dogs were not all equally good; some of them fought and others cowered and still others traced idiotic paths around the spectacle and harassed the blind man as he dragged the woman across the grass.†   (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)
  • There were other incidents, too, like the time I was harassed by old friends of Cassie's in a grocery store, and the numerous hang-up calls we got at all hours of the day and night.†   (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)
  • Still, you won't have to worry about the old sexual harassment, eh?†   (source)
  • It was actually worse having her mad at me than having her harass me.†   (source)
  • Some guys were ...sexually harassing me, sir.†   (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)
  • "Is this man harassing you?" she asked.†   (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)
  • How about harassment-phone calls, letters, threats?†   (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)
  • He is not to engage the northerners until we arrive, but I want him to harass their flanks and draw them farther south.†   (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)
  • They will not be harassed in any way.†   (source)
  • Anything could happen—a drive-by shooting, a fight, police harassment.†   (source)
  • So that new policemen on the beat would have no trouble identifying whom to harass.†   (source)
  • We assembled in groups according to our barracks' number and were counted and recounted while short-tempered, cruel guards harassed us.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The Blue Book Boys, they drink, drug, harass people.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Galbatorix hired mercenaries to harass us.†   (source)
  • The manager finally arrived, a small bald harassed-looking man.†   (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)
  • Another proceeded to harass us.†   (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)
  • For decades, Colonel Kassad, forces of the TechnoCore had been harassing the Ouster swarms wherever they fled.†   (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)
  • So I was trapped in the ER, waiting, harassed by Tyler's constant apologies and promises to make it up to me.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She was harassed and threatened by Orsians when she came to the lower city, which I reported to Lieutenant Awn, but nothing was done.†   (source)
  • She heaved a sigh as they pulled alongside and discovered that the men looked like harassed accountants.†   (source)
  • The Italian government told the UN to stop harassing Aidid.†   (source)
  • The segregationists were becoming even more vocal, urging the students to harass us at every opportunity.†   (source)
  • Instead, he harassed me with condemnations.†   (source)
  • She said that you have harassed both her and her husband, that you continue to call the house repeatedly.†   (source)
  • Twenty of those have been for harassment of misfit pupils, I might add.†   (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)
  • We will not harass their nearby fleet units.†   (source)
  • Don't have their own police force-no immigration control-undesirables can walk right in without being frisked or even harassed.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • All he kept telling me was to not be afraid and if I was harassed to ask for a lawyer right away.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • A few years ago I read he'd been accused of sexual harassment by a former patient.†   (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)
  • Jane turned and recognized the chestnut hair: It was Charles Livingston, the law student Yetta had harassed back in the spring.†   (source)
  • Until then, I'll be watching to see that neither my son nor his friend is harassed.†   (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)
  • It's just that she's harassing me like a hundred times a day.†   (source)
  • Fallen angels roam the Earth looking for human bodies to harass and control.†   (source)
  • My first rocket had caused me to be harassed on the school bus, at school, and now in my own room.†   (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)
  • Lindsay says Mr. Daimler's going to sue me for harassment one day.†   (source)
  • You were harassing me!†   (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)
  • As part of the settlement, the company paid the women $900,000 and vowed to establish formal procedures for handling sexual harassment complaints.†   (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)
  • The officials are terribly harassed with the whole thing and exasperated with individual demands for attention.†   (source)
  • But it also brought harassment from the government.†   (source)
  • Unlike my old high school (South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma—which is a totally boring suburb of Tulsa) there were no Napoleon Complex, overly tanned vice principals with nothing better to do than to prowl the halls harassing kids.†   (source)
  • "Why do you harass me like this?" he said, the fire gone from his voice.†   (source)
  • "Don't talk nonsense, Timothy," I said "D'evil spirit harass an' meliss us," he said daddy.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She was adept in creating any number of hair styles, but each one left her with a pinched and harassed look.†   (source)
  • Bad things are happening all around—theft, harassment, worse.†   (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)
  • Chuckie scanned the switches and harassed his buddy, encouraging marriage to a decent woman with church affiliations.†   (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)
  • They were bullied, insulted, harassed and shoved about all day long by one after the other.†   (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)
  • She hired a lawyer who slapped a sexual harassment claim on Seth, whose own lawyer was horrified by the facts.†   (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)
  • Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.†   (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)
  • Rearming and refueling problems and Japanese mortar harassment had kept them pinned down.†   (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 Keesha about visitation and if you continue to pump Jacob for information on his foster parents, specifically their last name, then you are making it appear as if you aren't willing to play by the rules.†   (source)
  • A man reportedly harassed several flight attendants before walking to the first-aid station, hanging his coat on the rack, and leaving.†   (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)
  • Eddis harassed the army but was unwilling to waste her soldiers, her most precious resource.†   (source)
  • "If you continue to harass us," she said calmly, "I'll put your head through the wall."†   (source)
  • The harassment never stopped, even at night-especially at night.†   (source)
  • The authorities had been harassing Winnie in the belief that she would know whether or not I was back.†   (source)
  • It felt really good knowing that we eliminated Taliban fighters harassing the outpost.†   (source)
  • Though the Italians harassed the nocturnal re-supply and reinforcement with constant artillery fire, it neither stopped nor slackened.†   (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 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)
  • That Esu-harassed day slipped into the stewpot while we feasted.†   (source)
  • We've been expecting a real ambush somewhere on the way, but it's been sniping and harassing all the time.†   (source)
  • He looked worried and harassed.†   (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)
  • In my neighborhood, the police never get out of their cars unless it is to arrest someone or harass them with questions.†   (source)
  • The Arabs were attacking Jewish settlements in the Upper Galilee, the Negev and around Jerusalem, and were incessantly harassing supply convoys.†   (source)
  • Everyone else was out of the office and he had no one to spook or harass.†   (source)
  • He wanted to harass me about the stupid article.†   (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)
  • Theodore Freak is harassing me.†   (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)
  • But when the harassment of the plebe system became familiar, it also became tedious.†   (source)
  • The fat kid, looking harassed, climbed up on the bar and started calling names and throwing envelopes into the crowd.†   (source)
  • The harassed wolf turned, leaped high into the air, and snapped at one of the skis.†   (source)
  • Obviously thinking I might harass him, he pulled something from his jacket and I heard a click.†   (source)
  • Nirriti stirs within his dark lair; he harasses the seaways of the south.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But do not contact them, or follow them, or frighten them, or in any way harass them.†   (source)
  • They reached an out-of-court settlement on the harassment suit.†   (source)
  • Now Wade Lanier had found a black woman who sued Seth for sexual harassment.†   (source)
  • Could he really have been seeing her all this time, telling me that she was hassling him, harassing him, when in reality they were making plans to meet up, to sneak around behind my back?†   (source)
  • She took a quick look and said, "Yes, this is a claim for sexual harassment I filed against Seth Hubbard about five years ago."†   (source)
  • Most of what she said would not be admissible in court; however, the fact that she could take the stand, let the jury absorb her ethnicity, and chat about her claim for sexual harassment at the hands of Seth Hubbard would sway any white jury to believe the old guy and Lettie were probably doing business.†   (source)
  • This, Paul thought, was nothing more than blatant harassment.†   (source)
  • It was the story of a stag who could not drink at a pond because a magpie kept harassing him.†   (source)
  • Well, they'll have a bed, anyway," said Mrs. Weasley, sounding slightly harassed.†   (source)
  • Beans and the guys hated Dorothy and harassed her whenever they got the chance.†   (source)
  • They have no reason to harass us, but ....Jane's with them.†   (source)
  • They harassed one another as they played.†   (source)
  • She went down to his biological mother's apartment and harassed her for pictures.†   (source)
  • Without fail, we knew we could expect some form of harassment.†   (source)
  • The problem was that the harassment was out of all proportion to the content of the story.†   (source)
  • There were haphazard detentions, and a steady campaign of harassment.†   (source)
  • Supposing Josh Richter starts sexually harassing me someday (I wish) and I don't notice?†   (source)
  • In fact, they harassed her—and the rest of us—so often that we eventually had to move.†   (source)
  • Harry saw Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Ron, and Hermione grouped around a harassed-looking Madam Pomfrey.†   (source)
  • She was not harassed or threatened at any time.†   (source)
  • If they came across Palmer in the street or at the park, they continued to harass him.†   (source)
  • We'd harass them so much they'd never accomplish anything.†   (source)
  • On top of everything, the instructors poured on the stress with verbal harassment.†   (source)
  • What does "sexually harass" mean to you?†   (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)
  • "She isn't actually harassing us, though, is she?" he said.†   (source)
  • Was it a warning that she should change her middle name in America so she wasn't harassed?†   (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)
  • He's right, of course, about the harassment thing.†   (source)
  • You can't have dark skin and a new car in Clarkston without harassment.†   (source)
  • Continued harassment was also taking its toll of her.†   (source)
  • The harassment of the hamlets and villages is part of the whole movement.†   (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)
  • Good Lord, you're being sexually harassed at work.†   (source)
  • You're opening yourself up to a major sexual harassment lawsuit.†   (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)
  • We will harass the enemy with guerrilla actions until the last of us has perished.†   (source)
  • Maybe Aphrodite would not show up tonight, or be there but forget to harass me.†   (source)
  • The state did its utmost to harass me in ways they thought I would be powerless to resist.†   (source)
  • Technically, I could report you for harassment.†   (source)
  • Aside from the sexual harassment concern.†   (source)
  • The Italian artillery had been active for weeks in harassing the Austrian build-up.†   (source)
  • She's already asked for one-harassed me is more appropriate.†   (source)
  • As soon as the Argo II had passed into the straits, Anion broke off his harassment.†   (source)
  • And, indeed, Union cavalry repeatedly harass the rear of Lee's exhausted column.†   (source)
  • As my feet touched the ground, Timothy hugged me, yelling, "D'palm harass us no more."†   (source)
  • 'Madonn'!' cried his friends, rolling their harassed eyes up toward the ceiling.†   (source)
  • If Sounis had someone else to harass, he'd have less time to devote to Attolia.†   (source)
  • Any contact in less than one week's time will be defined as harassment.†   (source)
  • The does, harassed and bony two days before, were beginning to look quite sleek.†   (source)
  • Someone, for some unknown reason, had decided to harass her.†   (source)
  • Vega, you got some major balls harassing my girl.†   (source)
  • Never before have I been so harassed by one of my sons.†   (source)
  • She shakes her head in disbelief, then moves away to harass other partners.†   (source)
  • I said that someone had faked your address and is obviously harassing her.†   (source)
  • 'Tis a good ting not to harass d'soul ovah dis.†   (source)
  • The 28th had moved out at nine A.M. By nine-thirty it was taking harassing fire from the rear.†   (source)
  • Nothing existed at the corners of my mind; no irritating thoughts harassed me.†   (source)
  • Winnie and Zindzi were under constant police surveillance and intermittent harassment.†   (source)
  • 'Va fongul!' his girl replied, rolling her harassed eyes up toward the ceiling.†   (source)
  • In all dis harassment wid d'shark, I did forget.†   (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)
  • Wirmie was not the only wife being harassed.†   (source)
  • One week after that she filed a sexual harassment complaint with Equal Employment.†   (source)
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