troublesomeness

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Someone else would contend that the essence of a weed was its troublesomeness, but Socrates would counter this by asking them whether horseradish was not a far more troublesome thing in a garden than foxgloves.

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Lynd, Robert

My dear Flower, …Many thanks for taking my troublesomeness in good part.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard

If there is any thing amiss in your mind, not arising from the troublesomeness of your situation, it is childish and unmanly not to disclose it to me.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Moore, Thomas

Did he ever guess that there was something else in her than this obstinacy, this troublesomeness with which she was forced to meet him?

From Delia Blanchflower by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

As a result of this cogitation Leonore decided that she would nip Peter's troublesomeness in the bud, that she would put up a sign, "Trespassing forbidden;" by which he might take warning.

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester