put to trouble
Example Sentences
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But I reflected that the committee had been put to trouble and expense for photographs, postage-stamps, and what not, and that all that was really wanted was something to be sentimental over.
From Hawthorne and His Circle by Hawthorne, Julian
One thing she cannot fail to know,—that five or six elderly and respectable, often sick, lackeys and maids have had no sleep, and have been put to trouble on her account.
From What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
One thing she cannot fail to know,—that five or six elderly and respectable, often sick, lackeys and maids have had no sleep, and have been put to trouble on her account.
From What to Do? by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
We were put to trouble and expense to prevent filibustering, and filibustering continued in spite of us.
From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by White, Trumbull
Ye must now be put to trouble for my sake, ye who wished him well and be my friends.
From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier