worryings

But it's important not to use them as a billboard, but seeking to inform and discuss with the audience and their worryings.

Global Voices in English » Colombia: Cyber-Politics for the 2010 Elections 2009

Yet what name else can I? since the mortal worryings of the fiercest beast would have been more natural, and infinitely more welcome, that what you have acted by me; and that with a premeditation and contrivance worthy only of that single heart which now, base as well as ungrateful as thou art, seems to quake within thee. —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

So far it seems to be an effective means of keeping my thoughts shallow and my pointless worryings at a minimum.

scorpi07 Diary Entry scorpi07 2005

She felt exasperated with every one, and if he began his worryings again, would have to vent her irritation somehow.

Maurice Guest 2003

And as for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly, good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

His encouragement to the tribulated children saluted my best life, overborne as it felt with the burden of unregenerate nature -- ready to say, "Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" and, amid many a giving way to the worryings of earthly thoughts, struggling to say, "Lord, I believe: help thou mine unbelief."

A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall

The thought of either not going to Mr. King's or that she might not have anything fit to wear filled the hours with nightmares and worryings.

Rose O'Paradise Grace Miller White 1912

No fears, no worryings, no hatreds, no jealousies, no sorrowings, no grievings, no sordid graspings after inordinant [Transcriber's note: inordinate?] gain, have found entrance into her realm of thought.

In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty Ralph Waldo Trine 1912

There were many other dogs in Bayside and the surrounding districts who were just as likely to be the guilty animals, and Will hoped that if Don were shut up for a time, suspicion might be averted from him, especially if the worryings still went on.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 1908

His health, which he had hoped to recover in Spain, had been if anything damaged by his worryings with officialdom there; and although he was only forty-seven years of age he was in some respects already an old man.

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Filson Young 1907