1 He had known, to use his words, a peck of trouble.
2 He was a little troubled here, by Louisa and Sissy crying.
3 Even this imperfect consciousness faded away at last, and he dreamed a long, troubled dream.
4 Stephen bent his head to the gentleman from London, and showed a rather more troubled mind than usual.
5 There was great trouble before it could be made known to Mrs. Gradgrind that her eldest child was there.
6 The end to which it led was before him, pretty plainly; but he troubled himself with no calculations about it.
7 If you want to cram for anything, I should be troubled to recommend you to a better adviser than Loo Bounderby.
8 He spoke in a subdued and troubled voice, very different from his usual dictatorial manner; and was often at a loss for words.
9 I think Tom may be gradually falling into trouble, and I wish to stretch out a helping hand to him from the depths of my wicked experience.
10 That could hardly be, she knew, until an hour past midnight; but in the country silence, which did anything but calm the trouble of her thoughts, time lagged wearily.
11 It has not been, sir, without some trouble that I have effected this; but trouble in your service is to me a pleasure, and hunger, thirst, and cold a real gratification.
12 Looking at no one, and going his way with a lowly steadiness upon him that asserted nothing and sought nothing, Old Stephen, with all his troubles on his head, left the scene.
13 He knew that there was trouble enough in the world; and if the old woman had lived so long, and could count upon his having so little, why so much the better for her, and none the worse for him.
14 And often and often of a night, he used to forget all his troubles in wondering whether the Sultan would let the lady go on with the story, or would have her head cut off before it was finished.
15 With a large allowance for difference of tastes, and with all submission to the patricians of Coketown, this seemed so extraordinary a source of interest to take so much trouble about, that it perplexed him.
16 What I have learned has left me doubting, misbelieving, despising, regretting, what I have not learned; and my dismal resource has been to think that life would soon go by, and that nothing in it could be worth the pain and trouble of a contest.
17 The not being troubled with earnestness was a grand point in his favour, enabling him to take to the hard Fact fellows with as good a grace as if he had been born one of the tribe, and to throw all other tribes overboard, as conscious hypocrites.
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