( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Do you mean to tell me, Mr. Weller,' said Serjeant Buzfuz, folding hisarms emphatically, and turning half-round to the jury, as if in muteassurance that he would bother the witness yet--'do you mean to tellme, Mr. Weller, that you saw nothing of this fainting on the part of theplaintiff in the arms of the defendant, which you have heard describedby the witnesses?' 'Certainly not,' replied Sam; 'I was in the passagetill they called me up, and then the old lady was not there.
How he would bother the commissioners! He'd set 'em at defianceif they talked of committing him, Sir.
The case comeson, some months afterwards, afore a deaf old gentleman, in a back roomsomewhere down by Paul's Churchyard; and arter four counsels had taken aday a-piece to bother him regularly, he takes a week or two to consider,and read the evidence in six volumes, and then gives his judgment thathow the testator was not quite right in his head, and I must pay all themoney back again, and all the costs.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Don't bother the woman,' said the turnkey to Weller; 'she's just comein.