"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Nothing is the matter," she replied, irritably, and immediately she became so gay that had Henry himself been in his usual mood he would have been as much astonished as by her depression. Sylvia began talking and laughing, relating long stories of new discoveries which she had made in the ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... though it were a piece of everyday intelligence, they never doubted its accuracy for a minute, but only redoubled their efforts to prevent her from going to Africa. Even her husband did not doubt it, but remarked irritably that it seemed a pity she could not sometimes be foresighted as to agreeable future events, since for his part he was quite willing to wait for disagreeable ones until they happened. Not that he quailed personally from the prospect of martyrdom; this he could contemplate with complacency ...
— The Ghost Kings • H. Rider Haggard
... William J. Mosely Estate is wound up? I've heard nothing else for two days. Not a word about the poor woman, who might as well have been a shadow on the wall of her house for all she meant to anybody until she died," she said, fanning herself and looking at him irritably. ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris
... his tone that this forgetfulness was an affectation. "You know very well what her name is," said he irritably. "What a cheap affectation." ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... said Sir Beverley, jerking himself irritably from him. "I detest being pawed about, as you very well know. In Heaven's name, have your tea, if you want it! I shan't touch any. It's past ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... dear feminine Alceste," she said irritably, "looking at things from your solitary standpoint on that rock of yours in the middle of the sea. You are thinking of the excelling of genius, of the possessor of an ideal fame, of the 'Huntress mightier ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... try and remember," he said irritably. "It seems to me that I've been kept in the dark. You went to the police to demand an investigation into your brother's death, but you did not say anything of the disclosure he made to you yesterday of his daughter's illegitimacy. Instead of doing so, you only directed suspicion ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... it," replied his brother irritably, "she insists on our having Mrs. Wells arrested for obstructing the street in front of her house. She asked me if it wasn't against the law, and I took a chance and told her it was. Then she wanted to start for the police court at once, but as I'd never been in one I said we'd have to prepare ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... irritably, "For the reason one usually uses anesthox. To knock a patient out for a couple of ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn
... on my nerves," muttered Tournefort irritably; "and I haven't heard the ruffian's churchyard cough since he walked ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... Jack. [Very irritably.] How extremely kind of you, Lady Bracknell! I have also in my possession, you will be pleased to hear, certificates of Miss Cardew's birth, baptism, whooping cough, registration, vaccination, confirmation, and the measles; both the ...
— The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People • Oscar Wilde
... such an infernal row in the street," said Galli, irritably. "Is that window shut, Riccardo? One can't ...
— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich
... right," he answered irritably. "But it will be difficult for me to please one woman while thinking of another. Ah, Karl, I am growing tired of this Burgundian dream. Dream? It is ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... is like a furnace," she cried, irritably throwing the sheet which covered her down on to the floor. "Why should I be poked up here and Robbie sleep downstairs with ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... "There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate ...
— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton
... go deceiving yourself with any such ideers," said the hairdresser, irritably. "I shan't do no such thing, so you needn't think it. And, to come to the point, how long do you mean to carry ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey
... said irritably. "I'd counted on being married this fall. I simply can't wait two years, and that is all there is about it." Elizabeth argued easily at first, certain that it could be readily arranged, but John became more and more positive. At ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... the banker, almost irritably. "We've all worried about Hobart till in danger of making fools of ourselves. As if people never get sick and send for relatives, or as if letters were never delayed! Why, bless me! haven't we heard to-day that he was well? and hasn't Jackson, who knows more about other ...
— Taken Alive • E. P. Roe
... suppose you think," he said irritably, "that you have reduced it to this—the sacrifice of one parent or the other. You have no business to think about such things; but if you had, to which do you owe the most duty? Who has done the ...
— The Good Comrade • Una L. Silberrad
... Dyce answered, at length irritably. "How many times must I tell you? It's all very well to be womanly, but ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing
... began his aunt, irritably; "you men who don't believe anything are always the victims of superstition. Bad ...
— His Sombre Rivals • E. P. Roe
... turned again to the doctor and inquired irritably, "What is it to YOU if I teach my own child to mind me or ...
— Tillie: A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch • Helen Reimensnyder Martin
... instantly distressed. He looked at Momus and asked in a whisper what had happened. But the old servant signed to his lips irritably, and stroked his young mistress' hair in a dumb effort to comfort her. The silence grew painful. In his anxiety to relieve them, he bethought him of their uncovered heads ...
— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller
... either you or your mother if you'll be sensible," he said irritably, for, unreasonably enough, the extreme fear she showed and her pleading tones annoyed him. He had a feeling that he would like to shake her, it was so absurd of her to look at him as though she expected him to gobble her up in ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... a statement which you cannot possibly substantiate," Phipps declared irritably. "It is simply ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... it?' he said, irritably. 'I'm a ruined man. I can't paint any more—or, at any rate, the world doesn't care a ha'p'orth what I paint. I should be a bankrupt—but ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... him with the means of escape ... there must be cases in which death is infinitely preferable to life, and a doctor must know plenty of safe ways of setting free the poor imprisoned wretch as one would free a miserable caged bird. Tell me, has such an experience ever come your way?" He spoke almost irritably now. ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... "Aunty," protested Mara, almost irritably, for her nerves were sadly worn, "what good can such words do? We must live, I suppose, and ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... bridges, a nasty international feeling, fermented by General Officers who are obliged to sweep crossings and drive four-wheeled cabs for a livelihood,—and who do not like it,—begins to manifest itself, and diplomacy intervening irritably only to make matters worse, several ultimatums are dispatched from some of the Great Powers to others, but owing to the want of soldiers, the matter is put into the hands of International Solicitors, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 24, 1891. • Various
... backbone is protesting. Whether you have reached the end of that Anthony Adverse of a shopping list or not, we're going home! And what are you looking for? You've opened all those bags at least twice and dropped no less than three on the floor each time," he snapped irritably. ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton
... that though Dave Cowan could perform ably upon the instrument while it retained its health he was at a loss when it developed ailments; and to these it was prone, being a machine of temperament and airs, inclined to lose spirit, to sulk, even irritably to refuse all response to Dave's fingering of the keyboard. Dave was sincerely startled when his son one day skillfully restored tone to the thing after it had disconcertingly rebelled. Sam Pickering, on the point of wiring ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... The guard looked up irritably. Then, seeing the charming face bent above him, he softened visibly. Beauty may be only skin deep, but it has an amazing faculty for smoothing the path ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... him there. "I don't want my infirmities made public," he whispered back irritably. "Look at the people all round us! When I tell you I have been better lately, you ought ...
— The Black Robe • Wilkie Collins
... the drawing-room—and suddenly checked herself with a start. "Good Heavens!" she exclaimed irritably, "how you frightened me! Why was I not told you ...
— My Lady's Money • Wilkie Collins
... there were increasing evidences of trouble, which the mother of the latter did her best to avert by remonstrances and entreaty. On one occasion Whately had said a little irritably, "I say, Dr. Ackley, what's the use of Maynard's hanging around here? He is almost well ...
— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe
... well enough what I mean," Merriman answered irritably. "Let's drop this childish tomfoolery about plots and mysteries and try to get reasonably sane again. Here," he went on fiercely as the other demurred, "I'll tell you what I'll do if you like. I'll have no more suspicions or spying, but I'll ask her if there is anything wrong: say ...
— The Pit Prop Syndicate • Freeman Wills Crofts
... now, Faith, I insist," cried her mother, irritably. "I must know the truth at once. Just think, dear, I have lain here all day worrying about you, my child! It has been the hardest day of your life! I feel it and I can ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... he's not expected to live," said Mr. Briggerland. He rubbed his bald head irritably. "I wonder if that lunatic is ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... She placed herself at the piano; the instrument being opposite to the door, it was impossible, when she seated herself on the music-stool, for any person entering the room to see her face. Henry called out irritably, ...
— The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice • Wilkie Collins
... motioned to a young Indian woman, indicating a great jar of water. She quickly filled one of those quaint bowls, or cups, of the Cherokee manufacture, and advanced with it to Otasite; but the proffer was in the nature of an interruption of his troubled thoughts, and he irritably waved ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock
... sat at her toilet under the hair-dresser's hands, irritably replied that she had not slept all night and was in no state to be tormented about such trifles, but that the child ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton
... him, a rangy boy in his teens, in the victoria which Anthony considered the proper vehicle for Sunday afternoons. The farmhouse was in a hollow, but always on those excursions Anthony, fastidiously dressed, picking his way half-irritably through briars and cornfields, would go to the edge of the cliffs and stand there, looking down. Below was the muddy river, sluggish always, but a thing of terror in spring freshets. And across was the east side, already a sordid place, its steel mills belching black smoke that killed the green ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... did!" cried Alexia irritably to herself, "see anything so queer! Now she thinks she must race after those boys. I wish I'd kept still. Jasper, she's just as funny as ever," as he came up with a plate of salad, and some oysters. "Who?" said the boy; "is this right, Alexia?" ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... the lad a licking, and make him mind the sheep better? I saw him last Saturday playing sogers down at Thirlston with a score or more of idle lads like himsel'." The old man spoke irritably, and looked round for the culprit. "I'll lay thee a penny he's at the same game now. Gie him a licking when he comes ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... and walked a little way in silence, but the soldier's nonsense stuck in his brain and worried him. Finally he turned, rather irritably. ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... her unwillingly. "Oh, don't make a scene!" he said irritably. "Your mother is nervous, so I have given it up for the ...
— The Top of the World • Ethel M. Dell
... to the anhedonic personality. The complainer, the whiner, the nag, all these are basically people who are hard to satisfy. The artistic temperament (found rather frequently in the non-artistic) is hyperesthetic, uncontrolled, irritably egoistic and demands homage and service from others which exceeds the merit of the individual; in other words, there is added to the anhedonic element an unreasonableness that is peculiarly exasperating. I pass these interesting people by and turn to the opposite of ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... me nervous," rebuked Margery irritably. "Isn't it hard enough to climb this skating rink without being bothered ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge
... It was a wistful smile—not a happy one—but it seemed, somehow, to illumine the office. Maxwell reflected irritably that there was something unusually likable about the fellow, but he wished he'd hurry up and get out. From force of habit his fingers grasped a blue pencil on his desk, and he began to fumble nervously among the manuscripts that lay before him. ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... the thing in my own way," said Jones irritably. "The late Lord Rochester got dreadfully involved owing to his own stupidity with a woman—I call him the late Lord Rochester because I have to announce now the fact ...
— The Man Who Lost Himself • H. De Vere Stacpoole
... like that," she exclaimed irritably. "You must hear the truth sometimes. And now, please remember that I came to lunch with you to hear about your visit ...
— The Yellow Crayon • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... that sort of superstition," said I irritably. "He's just as likely to die as any ...
— Dolly Dialogues • Anthony Hope
... alone in a back garden looked upon by windows; others, like the ostrich, are content with a solitude that meets the eye; and others, again, expand in fancy to the very borders of their desert, and are irritably conscious of a hunter's camp in an adjacent county. To these last, of course, Fontainebleau will seem but an extended tea-garden: a Rosherville on a by-day. But to the plain man it offers solitude: an excellent thing in itself, and ...
— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson
... said Mr. Cullen, irritably. "You might just as well have the pleasure, and you'll only disturb the game if ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... he demanded, irritably. Rawles had upset his calculations to the extent of seven or eight ...
— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon
... my husband? I started to my feet as the idea occurred to me. Was some new trial of my patience and my fortitude at hand? Half nervously, half irritably, I asked ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... He pitched the soft bundled-up fleeces about irritably, for they annoyed him. He wanted something hard, and growing more restless from a desire to show his authority, he went to where the two blacks should have been cleaning out ...
— First in the Field - A Story of New South Wales • George Manville Fenn
... or may not interest you two to know that I was in bed," he began irritably. "I wish to Heaven you'd ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... wailed tremulously, irritably; somebody was pushing it open from the inside. With a whine of remonstrance it swung wider, and Crane stepped out on the sidewalk. He stared in astonishment at Mortimer and Allis, his brow wrinkled in anger. Only for ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... see you, or I should not have had you called," Wilcox replied irritably. "I wish to have an explicit understanding with you as to our proceeding next week at our conference with the financial delegates. Sit here, close to me. It is not necessary for us to shout our business to ...
— The Martian Cabal • Roman Frederick Starzl
... extracts. Alcohol, as stated above, may act as a vasodilator. Aconite and veratrum viride are now rarely indicated, although possibly aconite should be used when there is high tension and the heart is acting irritably and stormily. ...
— DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D.
... on instructions from Your Highness, I searched the cellar of Mr. Blaine's house on the hill, Chamu the butler holding a candle for me." "What did he see? What did that treacherous swine see?" snapped Gungadhura, pushing back the bandage irritably from the ...
— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy
... he would not be more impossible than he is at present," said the Squire irritably. "Don't discuss it any more, my dear, I beg of you. It is out ...
— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker
... almost to breaking point by his bodily pain, spoke irritably, and Toni shrank miserably into her chair. "Why, Toni, have you never heard of the poet Rossetti? Good Heavens, child, don't you ever ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
... peevishly asked Fridolina, who was tired and sleepy. "If ever I marry it must be a man who will let me sing Isolde. Most foreign husbands hide their wives away like a dog its bone." She beamed on Wenceslaus. "Then you will never marry a foreign husband," returned the sculptor, irritably. ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... too; and now, at the end of the day she was too tired to do anything but lie on the sofa and let the children crawl all over her, moaning sometimes when they trampled deep. Then Arthur would stir in his arm-chair and look irritably at her. He still loved Aggie and the ...
— The Judgment of Eve • May Sinclair
... quite irritably, for him, and Hen, having had this subject up more than once before, desisted ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... early September and ran through some mail that lay piled on his table. He was not in a happy humor. The business here had dragged out to the annoying length of six weeks and his mind was busy with anxiety centering on the hills. But as his thoughts ran irritably along, the hand that had lifted an envelope out of the collection became rigid. It was a very plain envelope and quite unaccountably it was postmarked from the station near ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... never agree, and you will not succeed in converting me to your faith," Ivan Dmitritch was saying irritably; "you are utterly ignorant of reality, and you have never known suffering, but have only like a leech fed beside the sufferings of others, while I have been in continual suffering from the day of my birth till to-day. For that reason, ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... you deny it?" Osborne said rather irritably, looking hard at him with an expression of disapproval and mistrust, while my eyes wandered to that little gold medallion upon ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... see," retorted Ida, irritably, "that Ik has not considered us at all, but only himself? He wishes to be near Miss Burton, and without giving us any chance to object, has made all the arrangements so that we must either comply or else be the ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... "And the sentence, if I had anything to do with it, would be transportation for life." She peeled off her gloves irritably. "What fools men are! Not you, precious! You're the only man in the world that isn't, it seems to me. You did marry a nice girl, didn't you? YOU didn't go running round after females with crimson hair, goggling at them with your eyes popping out of your ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... give me orders?" growled the man irritably, as he caught Crispin by the arm and started to drag ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... tough, I can tell you," he said irritably, "to be as weak as a day-old baby, and to have ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... leg," she said irritably. "If he knows how to splint it, let him do it. I want to ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... that that was different," Cosmo returned irritably. "Pludder was not morally rotten. He was only mistaken. He had the fundamental scientific quality, and I'm sorry he threw himself away in his obstinacy. ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss
... I said 'beer,'" remarked Robert a little irritably, "and in any case I insist that you dismiss your present cook. You only took her because she was a Christian Scientist, and you've left that little sheep-fold now. You used to talk about false claims ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson
... turning Austin Caxton into an apple-merchant! My dear Jack, listen. You remind me of a colloquy in this book,—wait a bit, here it is, 'Pamphagus and Cocles.' Cocles recognizes his friend, who had been absent for many years, by his eminent and remarkable nose. Pamphagus says, rather irritably, that he is not ashamed of his nose. 'Ashamed of it! no, indeed,' says Cocles; 'I never saw a nose that could be put to so many uses!' 'Ha!' says Pamphagus (whose curiosity is aroused), 'uses! what uses?' Whereon (lepidissime ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... telling you—" said Mr. Twist irritably, for really why should Anna II. shake hands right off with strangers? Her business was to wait, not to get shaking hands. He must point ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
... Doctor Gordon irritably. "The main point is: the girl must not be even seen by that man. That is the trouble. Driving, she might be perfectly safe; in fact, in one way she is safe anyhow. She is not in any danger of bodily harm, as you may think, but ...
— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
... to believe you," he said, irritably. "And no doubt I'm making a fool of myself. That's why I shot out of your way this afternoon—I wanted to wait till I ...
— Will Warburton • George Gissing
... hollow, and there was an unhealthy sallowness in their color. His rather large, prominent, dark eyes had an expression of firm determination, and yet there was a vague look in them, too. Even when he was excited and talking irritably, his eyes somehow did not follow his mood, but betrayed something else, sometimes quite incongruous with what was passing. "It's hard to tell what he's thinking," those who talked to him sometimes declared. ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... of," the uncle said irritably. "You should hear what your mother would say to that. The idea of having a Wallerstaetten for a guest and offering him a bed which has been used already. That would seem a real crime in her eyes. That can't be; no, it mustn't. I hope you can ...
— Maezli - A Story of the Swiss Valleys • Johanna Spyri
... irritably. "I want to see him. Didn't you tell me he saved my life? I ought at least to thank ...
— The High Calling • Charles M. Sheldon
... corner of the preface to an edition of "Shakspere" which bears on its title-page the name (correctly spelt) of Queen Victoria's youngest son prefixed to the name I have just transcribed, a small pellet of dry dirt was flung upwards at me from behind by the "able editor" thus irritably impatient to figure in public as the volunteer valet or literary lackey of Prince Leopold. Hence I gathered the edifying assurance that this aspirant to the honours of literature in livery had been reminded of my humbler attempts in literature without ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... visiting in Kenwood, so I am the only one to be sent to Field's for those gloves. Auntie says the best time for the glove counter is about twelve-thirty, when the crowd is smallest."—"Yes," mumbled Truesdale, irritably; "and lunch at one." ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... tells the truth, madame," said the deputy, irritably. "And the line of his footprints wavers from ...
— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc
... to yourself about, Lucile? I could hear you way down the hall; and what are you doing? I thought you had your trunks nearly packed." Mrs. Payton's voice was irritably impatient. ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... John, while his retainer bowed his head and crossed himself. "Why do you steal upon a man like a thief in the night, holy Father?" he added irritably. ...
— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard
... lady, I tell you it's absolutely—" He made a goaded gesture. Then, making fierce little dashes and dots on his blotter with his pencil, and eying each one ferociously as he made it, he added irritably, but in a quieter tone: "You're an actress, eh? ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... I thought!" he said, irritably. "You're more concerned about yourself than about me. A few minutes ago you only cared to know what the doctors thought of my illness, but now it's nothing to you that I shall be dead in a year. ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... irritably, so it seems to me, not liking, perhaps, its opinions questioned, a failing common to old folk; "the most helpless pair of children I ever set eyes upon. Who but a child, I should like to know, would have ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... so busily engaged she could not spare that poor creature a moment or so?" he inquired, irritably. ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... hand through his hair, but time irritably, then shook his head from side to side rubbed ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... up in surprise from the fresh slightly wounded case he was overhauling. 'Hopeless? Why, it's not even—— Oh! him? Yes, I'm afraid so. . . . I wish Macgillivray would come back,' he went on irritably. 'He's worth the three of us here put together. Where we have to fiddle and probe and peer he would just look—just half-shut those hawk eyes of his and look, and he'd know exactly what to do and ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable
... Bordman irritably strapped himself in. He saw Aletha busy at the same task, her eyes shining. Without warning, there came a sensation of acute discomfort. It was the landing boat detaching itself from the ship and the diminishment of the ship's closely-confined artificial-gravity ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... else made her brother indignant. "What a scene about nothing," he said, irritably. "Why can't you let Flossy go to parties or not, as she pleases? Parties are not such delightful institutions that she need be expected to be in love with them. I should be delighted if I never had to appear at another. Why not let people have ...
— The Chautauqua Girls At Home • Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden
... congested trees, writhing in some kind of agony private and eternal, made tenebrous and shifty silhouettes against the sky, like shapes cut out of black paper by a maniac who pushes them with his thumb this way and that, irritably, on a concave surface of blue steel. Resin oozed unseen from the upper branches to the trunks swathed in creepers that clutched and interlocked with tendrils venomous, frantic and faint. Down below, by force of habit, the lush herbage ...
— A Christmas Garland • Max Beerbohm
... would happen like this." He stared up irritably, as though the lamp were to blame for upsetting his calculations. The ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... started to the telegraph office intending to wire Gloria to come South—he reached the door and receded despairingly, seeing the utter impracticability of such a move. Then he had spent the evening quarrelling irritably with Dot, and returned to camp morose and angry with the world. There had been a disagreeable scene, in the midst of which he had precipitately departed. What was to be done with her did not seem to concern ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... faces peering out through one of the little grated openings in the walls. But all to no purpose; at the end of three weeks from the date of the disappearance the mystery remained as insoluble as ever. Nor had Don Ramon met with any better success. "I cannot understand it," exclaimed that gentleman irritably; "I have sought information in every conceivable direction, and have set all sorts of unseen forces in motion, with absolutely no result. Even the Capitan-General has drawn blank: he is ignorant—or pretends to be—of what has happened to our friends; and the most that I have been able to get ...
— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood
... interrupted irritably. "I'm askin' these questions, Dinsmore. Now you, young fellow—what's ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... sort of person," the Colonel declared irritably. "I suppose you'll tell me now that I can't log my timber without ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... he took a cigar from one pocket, a match-case from another. "May I smoke?" he asked, irritably, and as I nodded he struck a match and held it to the cigar in his mouth, then threw it in the fire. ...
— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher
... sun was burning hot behind a thin veil of unbroken whitish clouds. Everything was hushed; there was no sound but the cocks crowing irritably at one another in the village, producing in every one who heard them a strange sense of drowsiness and ennui; and somewhere, high up in a tree-top, the incessant plaintive cheep of a young hawk. Arkady and Bazarov ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev |
