trouble-raising

Updated: June 23, 2025

Let us have a cup of tea." So they sat down and talked of everything but the war "He would hear us in his sleep," said Max, "and he has borne all he is able to bear today." Then Sunna said: "Right glad am I to put a stop to such a trouble-raising subject. War is a thing by itself, and all that touches it makes people bereft of their senses or some other good thing.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - An Orkney Maid