The house had grown disturbed — doors pestering at their frames whenever the weather drew breath, clatters on the roof, something twisting, searching overhead, and meanwhile she dreamed a little of being underwater, swimming the length of an obstacle course, both a game and an obstacle course, in some kind of terrible amusement park.
By examining obscure documents and pestering the peons at the bottom of the Nixon White House hierarchy, they pried loose the secrets of the mighty.
I made a fool of myself pestering colleagues at the veterans hospital across town like an anxious mother calling the kindergarten to discuss her precious child's impending arrival.
It's the season to be pestered at work by an earnest colleague asking for cash having completed a marathon, a swimathon or even something more imaginative such as the three peaks (where you "bag" Britain's highest hills in 24-hours).
In later years, Mr. Meacham wrote, she pestered him at the White House and even yelled at the 54-year-old president of the United States to put on a sweater to avoid catching a chill.
Mr. Hayman was a student at Columbia University looking for offbeat housing in the 1970's when, after pestering the owner of the bar at 326 Spring Street, he wangled a deal to live in the nearly abandoned upstairs in exchange for paying a small rent and fixing it up.
If you want to hear A.Crassicauda or any of their ilk, don't bother going on the internet or pestering the guy at your local record store.
Tristan became one of the first employees at Foursquare after pestering the founders and demonstrating his value.
It would prohibit the defendants from "assaulting, molesting, harassing, threatening, pestering, shouting at or otherwise interfering with" the university's members, students, employees and contractors (including shareholders) or their families.
Samuels, an undrafted rookie, spent the night pestering the Knicks.
