incommode

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I submitted that no thought could be further from Dr. Trefusis’s intent than to incommode such an excellent hostess.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

And why may not a Man use the Boldness and Freedom of telling his Friends, that their long Visits sometimes incommode him?

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

Mr. Worthington: "Is it justifiable to incommode the public as such strikes do?"

From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by Burns, W. F.

To execute this Project they posted themselves behind the Scheld, from whence they indeed did very much incommode us.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

"There is no occasion to incommode yourself by pressing it," wrote Jefferson, "as when received it will be some time before we shall probably find a good occasion of bringing forward the subject."

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert