"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is necessary is not enough," Seaman rejoined irritably. "I thought that you had wormed the whole story out of that ...
— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... finish," growled one of the men irritably. "You know we are running an awful risk in getting you out of the prison and bringing you here when you are supposed to be with the chaplain; you swore you would behave squarely with us and go back when you were told. Now you've got to keep ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... 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 to ...
— The Black Robe • Wilkie Collins
... help your doubts," he said irritably. "Was there not proved a discourse of the battle and of the battle and of the army ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini
... some other oath?" O'Reilly broke out, irritably. "I've always considered 'bullets' weak and ineffective, but—it ...
— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach
... in a laboratory somewhere, boiling acids? Why isn't he digging in city libraries or hunting scientific stuff over in Vienna? Vienna's the place for him. I wish him there fast enough," irritably continued this asperser of ...
— Under the Country Sky • Grace S. Richmond
... wasn't in any danger," said Luigi, irritably; "they wouldn't waste it for a little thing like that; there's a glass case all ready for it in the heavenly museum, and a pin to ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... 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
... two sat quietly together: it struck eight. Gellert started up, and cried irritably: "There, now, you have allowed me to forget that I must be on my way to ...
— Christian Gellert's Last Christmas - From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation • Berthold Auerbach
... it away in a pack of new envelopes, if she wanted it to be found?" Strawn had demanded irritably, and had not been appeased by Dundee's suggestion: "Because she did not want Lydia, in dusting the desk, to see ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin
... point of view in the back room whence he could watch the humours of the crowd without coming too closely in contact with them. What a miscellaneous collection it was! He began to be irritably jealous for Rose's place in the world. She ought to be more adequately surrounded than this. What was Mrs. Leyburn—what were the Elsmeres about? He rebelled against the thought of her living perpetually among her inferiors, ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... when he had irritably sent a beggar from his house, he ran out and called her back, thrusting a oe5 note into her hand before letting ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... your great-grandmother or anybody else, so do stop chattering, Jack, and for goodness' sake let me hear that song," said McAllister irritably. ...
— Marie Gourdon - A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence • Maud Ogilvy
... in Alice's eyes; dark eyes that followed the cure's with a look of tenderness and pain. The mayor sat breathing irritably. As for the Municipal Council, it was evident to Tanrade and myself, that not one of these plain, red-eared citizens was eager to send a priest to jail—it was their custom ...
— A Village of Vagabonds • F. Berkeley Smith
... a little irritably, "my wife doesn't approve of my taking an interest even in fishing while the war's on, but, hang it all, what are you to do when you reach my age? Thinks I ought to be a ...
— The Zeppelin's Passenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... a pretty kettle of fish," the squire said irritably. "What on earth did the boy mean by getting himself mixed up with ...
— With Wolfe in Canada - The Winning of a Continent • G. A. Henty
... of nine,—seven, eight—nine all but one;—and so on, with an occasional wave coming inboard, until the very last square buoy comes bobbing towards the boat; hand over hand, buoy by buoy, net by net, holding fast when the pull of the tide is too strong, and pausing irritably to pick out the fish. We stepped the great mast, shifted all the ballast to wind'ard. John came aft to steer, and seated himself on the counter, a strangely powerful, statuesque figure in his wet oilskins. "Have 'ee got the sheet in yer hand?" Tony ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds
... all over again?" he inquired irritably. "You know I would not cross you in your present state, unless I were convinced it is for your own good. As I have before observed, she is a good many years your senior; she has neither birth nor money, nor anything uncommon in good looks. If, ...
— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall
... his hands irritably. "Words! Just words! How can they mean anything to a hard-headed man like me? Everything came out of a fire mist. How do you know it was a mind made that fire mist? Why couldn't it have been a—a—Christ, what could it have been?" Douglas paused with lips agape with horror ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie
... which would not permit greater intimacy and obliged them to speak in a low tone, after three months' absence! . . . In spite of his discretion, the man who was reading his paper raised his head and looked irritably at them over his spectacles as though a fly were distracting him with its buzzing. . . . The very idea of talking love-nonsense in a public garden when all ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... woe-begone face to hers, and said, almost irritably, "Yes—no—or at least I am as well as I ever expect to be, and perhaps better." Then with a sudden impulse he asked, "Does annihilation seem such a dreadful thing ...
— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe
... irritably, for he could not stand opposition upon his own hearth-rug. "The boy couldn't be hurt by sitting in the same class with the devil himself—nor could Champe, for that matter. They are too ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... that he's not expected to live," said Mr. Briggerland. He rubbed his bald head irritably. "I wonder if that lunatic is going ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... he heard the general call out irritably: "Tompkins, go over an' see Taylor, an' tell him not t' be in such an all-fired hurry; tell him t' halt his brigade in th' edge of th' woods; tell him t' detach a reg'ment—say I think th' center 'll break if we don't help it out some; tell him ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane
... be good enough to examine this witness," he said a little irritably. "These irregular interruptions! But let her say what ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... sit down! Sit down and argue!" said the squire irritably. "You're always ready with some plausible excuse for that half-witted young scoundrel. I'll tell you what it is, Dick. If you don't get rid of him after this, there'll be a split between us. I'm not going to countenance ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... of his problems, Hyde reflected irritably. "Sydney Ducks." There would be many more no doubt, for San Francisco was growing. It had 500 citizens, irrespective of the New York volunteers; 157 buildings. He would need helpers in the task of city-governing. Half idly he ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... There is even a general implicit conviction among them that the grown-up people, too, make words by the wayside as occasion befalls. How otherwise should words be so numerous that every day brings forward some hitherto unheard? The child would be surprised to know how irritably poets are refused the faculty and authority which he thinks to belong ...
— The Children • Alice Meynell
... imagination vary; some can be 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 a ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the children too much, Ameres," his wife said irritably. "I do not think in all Egypt there are any children so spoiled as ours. Other men's sons never speak unless addressed, and do not think of sitting down in the presence of their father. I am astonished indeed that you, who are looked up to as one of the wisest men in Egypt, ...
— The Cat of Bubastes - A Tale of Ancient Egypt • G. A. Henty
... Shl Finnachy in the north. The lesser gentlemen looked under their brows at the greater champions, and these peered furtively at the greatest of all. Art og mac Morna of the Hard Strokes fell to biting his fingers, Cona'n the Swearer and Garra mac Morna grumbled irritably to each other and at their neighbours, even Caelte, the son of Rona'n, looked down into his own lap, and Goll Mor sipped at his wine without any twinkle in his eye. A horrid embarrassment came into the great ...
— Irish Fairy Tales • James Stephens
... active man, this was a good enough ladder, and the inspector withdrew his head shrugging his square shoulders, irritably. ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... me with Kay," he interrupted irritably. "I play my game according to the time-honored rules of that game. I do not ask for quarter, and I shall not give it. I'm going to do all in my power to acquire the Rancho Palomar under that mortgage I hold—and I hope that young man gives me a bully ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... replied his visitor irritably, as he sat down on a cane lounge, and viciously tugged at his moustache. "I thought I would come over and worry you with my company for a while, and get you to come across to the Queen's and share a bottle of fizz with me. They have some ice there I ...
— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... movements. "Poor auntie is laid up with the neuralgia, and Ethel has gone 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
... this discussion, Fernando leaves the question of his father's parentage in all its original obscurity, yet appears irritably sensitive to any derogatory suggestions of others, his whole evidence tends to the conviction that he really knew nothing to boast of in ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving
... do very well for the servants to gutter down, in the kitchen," she was irritably declaring. "But neither my daughter nor me can abide the smell of tallow; and your wax ones are a cruel price. Cruel, Mrs. Day! I suppose you could not make a reduction by ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... 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 ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... refusal Anthony had 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 him vitally at present—he was completely ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... be growing worse and worse." Mostyn went on, irritably. "I heard he had actually threatened my life. I don't want to take steps to restrain him, but I'll have to if he keeps it up. I can't afford to have him slandering me on every street-corner as he is doing. Every business man knows I was not to blame in that deal. The courts ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... thought you were not coming! You look pale; are you not well? Is it the heat? Or"—he looked hard into her face—"has someone hurt you, my little friend?" Gyp shook her head. "Ah, yes," he went on irritably; "you tell me nothing; you tell nobody nothing! You close up your pretty face like a flower at night. At your age, my child, one should make confidences; a secret grief is to music as the east wind to the stomach. Put off your mask ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... to fight against it in this beast of a barn. The place was like a sepulchre. No one but a fool of a butler would have suggested it as a trysting-place. He wondered irritably why places like this were allowed to get into this condition. If people wanted a barn earnestly enough to take the trouble of building one, why was it not worth while to keep the thing in proper repair? Waste and futility! That was what it was. That was what everything ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... all you care about," said Jean irritably, "don't blame Miss Wales. The thing had to be done you know. I didn't see that it mattered who did it, and so I—well, I practically asked her. What I'm talking about is her way of going at it—her having pushed ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
... 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 ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... Semenoff irritably flourished his stick, which had a crooked handle. His shadow similarly waved a long black arm which made Yourii think of the black wings of some infuriated ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... sort of person," the Colonel declared irritably. "I suppose you'll tell me now that I can't log my timber without permission ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... continued, "that we have to decide between two darned slim chances, for they'll be coming back within an hour. We can stay here, or run for it! What do you think?" But as she remained silent, gazing across the prairie, I kept irritably on: "If it's run, we can't reach the forests north, south or east without being seen—and you know what a fight in the open means against such odds. We might hide in the grass and travel at night, but if their woodcraft's worth a hang they'll read our trail on this kind of ground like an electric ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... ejaculated irritably. "Why, I'd rather have given a hundred dollars than have this happen. I'll wring that ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... to take him an interminable time to have his tonsils out. If he does not appear pretty soon I shall have to get another man to run the car. We can't be left high and dry like this," fretted the elder man irritably. "Suppose I knew nothing about it, where would we be? I wished to-day you were old enough to have a license and could have come to the station to meet us. I believe with a little more instruction you could manage that automobile ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... man's eyes sparkled irritably and angrily, his lips twisted with contempt, and the wrinkles ...
— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky
... 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
... Dr. Shalt, irritably. "That was your voice, your pitch. The voice of your dummy, Spud." He wasn't going to be taken in by any warped sense of humor. Robbie Crawford was the best ventriloquist in America. He was also noted for his practical jokes. "An ...
— The Second Voice • Mann Rubin
... to end?" the Judge began irritably, "in the poorhouse? You're so damn young," he grumbled. "It's a good thing I didn't know you when I was young. I'd ...
— The Wishing Moon • Louise Elizabeth Dutton
... didn't! I felt sure of that when I was in Switzerland!" she cried irritably. "Now you must go not four but six miles a day! You've grown terribly slack, terribly, terribly! You're not simply getting old, you're getting decrepit.... You shocked me when I first saw you just now, in spite of your red tie, quelle idee ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... me sham insanity during the trial, and he became irritably insolent in his manner toward me because I positively refused to do so. He told me that if I stuck to the truth I would surely be convicted, but if I followed his advice by openly assuming idiotic tactics in court and making false statements under oath, according ...
— Born Again • Alfred Lawson
... gone," Mr. Brander said, irritably. "She is just as bent as you were, if you will permit me to say so, on the carrying out of her own scheme of life. It is a great annoyance to her mother and me, but argument has been thrown away upon her, and as unfortunately the girls have each a couple of thousand, left under their own control ...
— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty
... you?" he asked gently as the boy sat quietly down; and made irritably incisive by the tendency of near-by men and women to listen as well as watch, he emphasized his expensive order of foods and wines, repeated each item loudly to cheapen the listeners, ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... snarled Sam irritably. "Don't come any high strikes on their account. They're dead an' you can't dig 'em up an' weep over 'em. Hustle up an' tell us wot ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... again. The captain interrupted her. "Be still," he ordered, irritably. "Marietta, you set over here by the melodeon. That'll be about right for you, ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Benson admitted irritably. "Do you think I can't see where I'm drifting? The trouble is that I've gone too far ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... to keep them out of hostile hands," said the second voice irritably. "I don't like the idea of carrying yellowbacks around in a satchel just to humor a lunatic. And he's had the nerve to write that he ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson
... that the girl was watching him from the midst of the shifting crowd. What did she expect, he asked himself irritably? She knew him. She knew his reputation. Did she imagine herself the sort of woman to hold a man of his stamp for more than the passing moment? Save for his title and estates, was ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... restlessly from side to side of the bed, and wondering irritably whether he was to have the laudanum that night. In the presence of the two witnesses, I gave him the dose, and shook up his pillows, and told him to lie down again ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... foolish," said Mr. Cullen, irritably. "You might just as well have the pleasure, and you'll only disturb the game if ...
— The Great K. & A. Robbery • Paul Liechester Ford
... care," snapped Tessie, irritably. "I hate it!" They had often walked along the river and tasted of the spring water, but Chuck had never before waxed scientific. They took a boat at Baumann's boathouse and drifted down the lovely ...
— Half Portions • Edna Ferber
... the limes. Lavretsky got up and began to answer Panshin; an argument sprang up. Lavretsky championed the youth and the independence of Russia; he was ready to throw over himself and his generation, but he stood up for the new men, their convictions and desires. Panshin answered sharply and irritably. He maintained that the intelligent people ought to change everything, and was at last even brought to the point of forgetting his position as a kammer-yunker, and his career as an official, and calling Lavretsky an antiquated conservative, even hinting—very remotely it ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... Paresi said irritably, "For the reason one usually uses anesthox. To knock a patient out for a couple of ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn
... said Hawker again, and very irritably. "How in the wide world do you expect me to like him as well as ...
— The Third Violet • Stephen Crane
... hesitation. A year ago he would not have thought twice, but of late he had grown much more careful of himself. The day was misty and the air struck raw and cold. He made no protest when Carrissima suggested that he should wear a scarf, although after she had wound it around his neck he, somewhat irritably, rearranged it in ...
— Enter Bridget • Thomas Cobb
... knows what, my mistress has been driven almost out of her senses. The maids are in the dining-room now, for there's to be tea and light refreshment; and they've been behindhand too with the plants from Covent Garden, drat them," muttered the old man irritably. He was a faithful servant, and true to his mistress's interests; but he was growing old, and there were times when he longed to sit quietly under his own fig tree, in the Surrey village where he was born, where meetings ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... wanted to get into the house after murdering Mrs. Rider?" asked Whiteside irritably. "Your theory is against all reason, Ling Chu. When a person has committed a murder they want to put as much distance between themselves and the scene of the crime as they can in the shortest ...
— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace
... the way, nervous, silent and in haste, as though in fear of unseen enemies. Rhodes looked after her irritably. He was fagged and worn out by one of the hardest trails he had ever covered, and was in no condition to solve the curious problems of the Indian mind, but the girl had proven a good soldier of the desert, and was, for the first ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan
... to, Ray. They're all so dumb. They've got no ambition," Thea exclaimed irritably. "Jenny Smiley is the only one who isn't stupid. She can read pretty well, and she has such good hands. But she don't care a rap about it. She ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... balderdash!" said Lord Brudenel. He spoke irritably, for he knew his position to be guaranteed by common-sense, and his slow ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell
... Stuart irritably; but the next moment he had turned, eager-eyed to the servant who ...
— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer
... watched him at his feast. Now he burrowed into the spongy flesh; now turned to lap the dark pool which glittered in the moonlight at his side like claret in a silver cup. Now lifting his head, he snapped irritably at the rain-drops, and the moon caught his wicked, rolling eye and the red shreds of flesh dripping from his jaw. And again, raising his great muzzle as if about to howl, he let the delicious nectar trickle down his ...
— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant
... stem of his pipe irritably, while Spike, full of excellent intentions, sat on the edge of his chair, drawing sorrowfully at his cigar and wondering what he had done ...
— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse
... Dora, irritably. "It's simple jealousy. She won't let the poor boy alone till he's in love with her ...
— Comedies of Courtship • Anthony Hope
... may not interest you two to know that I was in bed," he began irritably. "I wish to Heaven you'd ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... easier to realize, had I taken more than one stroke!" he answered irritably, still blocking the way on his great horse, still twisting at his mustache point, still looking down at her through eyes that blazed a dozen accumulated centuries' store of lawless ambition. He was proud of that back-handed swipe of his that would cleave a man each time ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... the mother said, irritably, "I wish to goodness you wouldn't run out after dinner. Where ...
— Stories by English Authors: The Sea • Various
... let us make a volte face. There is an old story of the lady who wrote rather irritably to Thackeray, asking, curtly, why all the good women he created were fools and the bright women all bad. "The same complaint," he answered, "has been made, Madame, of God and Shakespeare, and as neither has given explanation I can not presume to attempt one." It ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison
... great compliment to Mr. Sinclair, for Dr. Lambert was rather severe on the young men of the day. "I don't know what has come to them," he would remark irritably; "young men nowadays call their father 'governor,' and speak to him as though he were their equal in age. There is no respect shown to elders. A brainless young puppy will contradict a man twice his age, and there is not even the same courtesy shown to the weaker ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... of town," he said irritably. "Besides, he wouldn't see you until you had told me your business anyway. What do you think he keeps a ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse
... his butterflies as usual," said Mrs. Flanders irritably, but was surprised by a sudden afterthought, "Cricket ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... in the least," said the old woman irritably, settling back with a grim expression on her face. "Now if you will take my advice and get started, young man, I would be very much ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... betraying his nervous tension. "A disturber," he said irritably, "even in his going. And yet, I suppose it's true; we shouldn't be sitting here comfortably to-night if it hadn't ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... Cis broke in petulantly. "Oh, that makes it all the harder to bear!—Oh, where's Mrs. Kukor? She knows something's wrong! Why hasn't she helped us?" She fell to weeping irritably. ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... of morning rainbow that just preceded Procyon's rising and strode irritably down to his miniature dock. He was still scowling over what he should tell Charlie Mack when the ...
— Traders Risk • Roger Dee
... 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. ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... absorption died out in her eyes; she clasped her hands on her knee, looked down, then up at him almost irritably: ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... the old mahogany rack. "I've nothing to ride," he replied irritably, "and I don't choose ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... a man who can re-arrange all his matters?" asked the Major, irritably. "After all, what I ask of you is no very hard thing to grant; simply to accept the good the gods provide, and let ...
— The Village by the River • H. Louisa Bedford
... caught the expressions of these men wonderfully. His only failure, indeed, is that picture of myself." He regarded it with distaste, and a touch of asperity crept into his manner. "I don't know why the committee lets it stay there," he said, irritably. "It isn't a bit like." He recovered himself. "But all the others are excellent, excellent, though I believe many of the subjects are under the erroneous impression that they bear no resemblance to the originals. Here is the picture ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse
... to ask a thing and cry out if the answer be not smothered in sweets!" the old Senator retorted irritably, resenting her accent of reproof. "It is small marvel if the Consultore seemeth not great to thee; the power of the man is in the clarity of his vision and the ...
— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
... at the betting ring; then he shook his head. "Aw, what's the use?" said he irritably. "What's ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
... were at a standstill. Arithelli was sitting, as was her custom, absorbed in her own thoughts and dreams. For a moment she stared with uncomprehending eyes. She felt tired, she wanted to be alone, and she had not heard a single word. Emile shrugged irritably ...
— The Hippodrome • Rachel Hayward
... was shaking his head. Mrs. Frost, listless and a little fatigued, had witnessed too many such scenes in former days of garrison life to take any interest in the proceeding. "How stupid these people are!" she irritably exclaimed. "Running like mad and blocking the streets to see a soldier arrested for absence from camp without a pass. Shan't we ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King
... duly arrived, and with it the renewal of the Sergeant's food question, "What, again?" I asked, irritably. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 • Various
... Ortiz had reseated himself as Bell sat down, and now he fingered nervously, wretchedly, the objects on his desk. A penholder broke between his fingers and he flung it irritably into the wastebasket. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various
... 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? ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... Soon it ceased, and he wondered why the waggon should have stopped where it did. A few minutes afterwards he heard the sound of approaching footsteps, so he paused in his undressing, wondering irritably who was coming to disturb him. Then he heard a light ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully
... that lesson?" asked the factor irritably, sipping his tea. The shots had reached his ears, and the swift departure of the rescuers had ...
— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams
... by a young man named Linford. To all inquiries he answered that he was on his way to fast in the desert as his "Father" had commanded. His companion was even less communicative, saying somewhat irritably that his goings and comings were nobody's business ...
— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson
... "Gain?" repeated Buck irritably. "How the devil do I know what's in that polecat's mind? He's quite capable of hiding behind a woman's skirts. He's even capable of carrying her off and trying to force her to marry him, or something like that. ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... newspaper stuff lately about Jud Clark being alive is dead wrong," he declared, irritably. "Maggie Donaldson was crazy. You can ask the people here about her. They all know it. Those newspaper fellows descended on us here with a tooth-brush apiece and a suitcase full of liquor, and ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... 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. ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
... 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 mother and grandmother, ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... gie 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 ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... movement 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
... scarcely believe that it was Dion who was speaking to her. Often she had heard him speak violently, irritably, even cruelly and rudely. But there was a sort of ghastly softness in his voice. His hand still held hers, but its grasp had relaxed. In his touch, as in his voice, there was ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens
... that for mine, Mr Baltic. May I ask why you question me in this manner?' demanded Gabriel, irritably. ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... me awful hard, Delia, and a nasty big man grabbed me and tore my guimpe—see! I wish you'd told me what you were going to do," began Miss Honey irritably. ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... "Why?" he repeated irritably. "Because it will be so pleasant, won't it, to have this stuttering 'colonel' and all his family for relations! Certainly she seems nice enough, as yet; but who knows what she will turn out to be later? It won't matter much to you or myself, but Lubotshka will soon be making her debut, and ...
— Youth • Leo Tolstoy
... gentleman in my room," repeated Jasper, turning on the stairs "Good-morning," said Mr. Marlowe; "business all right?" "How you can sit there and laugh when Joe is in danger, I don't see," exclaimed Percy irritably. "Well, now I have two babies," said Mother Fisher "I've always found," said Dr. Fisher, "that all you had to do to start a thing, was to begin" "Phronsie, get a glass of water; be quick, child!" "I think it was a mean shame!" began ...
— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... very kind, sir;" and this faithful servant dropped another curtsey and seemed disposed to retire. But she lingered a moment and gave a timid, joyless smile. Newman was disappointed, and his fingers stole half shyly half irritably into his waistcoat-pocket. His informant noticed the movement. "Thank God I am not a Frenchwoman," she said. "If I were, I would tell you with a brazen simper, old as I am, that if you please, monsieur, my information is worth something. Let me tell you so in my own decent English ...
— The American • Henry James
... mother. When her lover's name became mingled with the remembrances of her childhood—the change came. Once more, the tell-tale lines began to harden in the governess's face. She lay back again in her chair. Her fingers irritably platted and unplatted the edge ...
— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins
... comprehension of feelings," said the poet, irritably, like a man who hears truth when he ...
— Modeste Mignon • Honore de Balzac
... handsome, then," was her next thought, as she again dropped her eyes before his. But all good-looking men were called handsome, and that term, too, displeased her. But whatever it was, he was good to see, and she was irritably aware of a desire to look at ...
— The Game • Jack London
... want to lick you," said Don irritably, "but I mean to get that train. You'd better either give up that key or stand out of my ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour
... not surprised. I never thought it had a market value. I told you so in the beginning," I said, irritably. "But what on earth have you done with ...
— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung
... course not," the young man said irritably. "But there is a way. It's been used before. Are ...
— The Unnecessary Man • Gordon Randall Garrett
... thing you need understand,' said her aunt, irritably, 'is that she's not a desirable companion for a ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins
... lovely?" enquired Connie, irritably, as she entered the hall and paused a moment under the electric light. The excitement had faded from her face, leaving it parched and wan as from a burned out fire, and the sinister blue shadows had leaped out in ...
— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
... all over the lower part of the great building, guarding the various entrances. While Captain Sweetsir was lecturing the tolerant listeners of one squad, he was irritably aware that the boys of the squads that were not under espionage were doing nigh about everything that a soldier on duty should not do, their diversions limited only by their lack ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... there for a while without speaking. He picked irritably at the bread-crumbs on the cloth, never glancing in my direction; and I, tired from my long foot-tour, lay back in my chair, silently appreciating one of the best cigars ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... patient, can't you?" irritably retorted the other. "Money doesn't grow on trees. Now listen, Hank. How would you like to get a nice little sum of money—more than I could give you—for camping out on Kidd's Island, in the Upper ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... very inconvenient of him," said Mr. Bowles irritably, "I wrote so that he should get the letter by ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... come out well, my boy," said Sir Edward irritably. "The young cub has some good in him, and he ...
— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn
... irritably under Mary's eyes. She lowered them and waited for the silken sound that should have told her that he had ...
— The Three Sisters • May Sinclair
... fingers. He was reclining on an atlas ottoman, his face was as wooden as a mummy's, a mere patch-work of wrinkles, he had a dry, thin, pointed nose, shaggy, autumnal-yellow eyebrows, and his large prominent black eyes protected by irritably sensitive eyelids, lent little charm to his peculiar cast ...
— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai
... it does belabor and thrash one's tympanum!" said the judge irritably, as he slowly ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... 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 ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... all the other Pokes so loud that the Cowardly Lion roused himself with a start, and the pet snails stuck out their heads. "A rest? A rest is not what we want! We want breakfast!" growled the lion irritably and started to roar, but a yawn spoiled it. (One simply cannot look fierce ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... at the club," continued his employer, irritably. "I feel like a fish out of water there, and that's the truth, Mr. Jarvis. It's a good club. I got elected there—well, never mind how—but it's one thing to be a member of a club, and quite another to get to know the men there. You ...
— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... felt indefinably chilled. Why this appointment for a meeting at one of the large hotels? Curious. Why this mystery, anyway, he thought irritably; why this excess of mystery? And yet, after all, he was forced to confess to his inmost soul that, mystery though it was, he did not find it any the less delightful for that, ...
— The Silver Butterfly • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... thought irritably. He had been forced to wear either a breathing mask or a pressure suit all the time he had been on the Moon, except when he had been in his own sealed room at the sanatorium. And his post-nasal drip was unmistakably maturing into a cold; he had ...
— The Worshippers • Damon Francis Knight
... left the room and Arenta lifted the box and carried it nearer to the light. And a little shiver crept through her heart and she closed the lid quickly and said irritably— ...
— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr
... flounce on the dress of Madame X——, or a light fur for a dark fur on the mantle of the Baronne de V——,—"a pale blonde! The whole thing will have to be made over again. What can I do if I am not seconded?" he asks irritably. "Truly, mesdemoiselles, c'est a se donner au diable!" With these words flung at a little group of employees, the great man appears. He is a short man, dressed in light-gray trousers, a blue coat with a broad velvet collar and silk lappels in which are stuck a few pins for use in sudden inspirations, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
... you?" asked L. W. irritably. "What's biting you, anyway? Ain't your claims all legal? Has anybody disputed you? Well, get onto yourself, ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... into their hands in their present mood. At Javert's behest, I set to work on my paper, and delivered to him in ten minutes a free, full, rapid translation of the abbreviated contents. On inspecting it Javert said, irritably, "I want an exact, precise transcript of ...
— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams
... inhuman perfection, betrayed "nerves" like a common mortal, of course very slightly, but in her it meant more than a blaze of fury from a vessel of inferior clay. Her admirable little foot, marvellously shod in a black shoe, tapped the floor irritably. But even in that display there was something exquisitely delicate. The very anger in her voice was silvery, as it were, and more like the petulance of ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
... Luigi,—I can't marry you," she answered almost irritably. The two were nearing the entrance to Champo; the Italian was pleading his cause. "I can't—so don't say ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller
... keep goin' right ahead," he said irritably. "Think I'm a quitter? Think I'm goin' ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine
... one of his hands out of his belt and laid it on Sir Percival's shoulder. Sir Percival shook it off irritably. The Count put it on again with ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... the port-hole to the adjoining sanctum where sat Craney, Watts, and that semi-military official known as the "contract doctor," expectant, possibly, of others coming, and told them of the "greasers'" doings, whereat Case, nervously, irritably pacing the floor, looked up in sudden interest and speedily plunged out into the darkness. Then Bentley had come, just at the time when the few packers and ranch folk were making a noise, and Case had reappeared, looking wilder, if anything, ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... irritably, "it's nonsense to tell me I don't say what I've just said! And, as I was about to tell you, his conduct caused the greatest disappointment and annoyance to his father, who is naturally anxious that ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... laughed irritably. 'He keeps it up, does he? But he sits people out openly, that shows he's not really dangerous. One doesn't worry about Hazel. It's that young man who arrives when everybody's going, or goes before anyone else arrives, that's what ...
— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson
... get much pleasure out of anything?" irritably. "My only child is one of the first actresses in London, and what is it to me? Do I have the pleasure of going abouth with her? or living with her? or taking any ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... a drink!" he replied irritably to Fleetwood—"one, three, ten, several! Billy, whose weasel-bellied pinto was that you were kicking your heels into in the park? Some of the squadron men asked me—the major. Oh, beg pardon! Didn't know you were trying to stick Mortimer with him. ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... habitues. It was not the first time that women who had lost at the tables had begged a napoleon from him, or asked the distinguished child of fortune what color or combination she should play. That, in his luckier days, had happened often and had amused him, but now he moved back irritably and wished that the figure in front of him would ...
— Gallegher and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... wouldn't,' she said irritably. 'But that isn't all. He went there, not only because he loved that place, but because he hated other places. I think he must have thought'—and her voice dropped—'he wasn't going to live long—he wasn't well when he gave up the school—and then we could grow ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... heat assailed us ... hundreds of little red, biting pimples on our bodies ... the cook's fresh-baked bread grew fuzz in twenty-four hours after baking ... the forecastle and cabin jangled and snarled irritably, like tortured animals.... ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... see him and get it over," his Chief declared irritably. "If only one could make these people realize how far behind ...
— The Great Prince Shan • E. Phillips Oppenheim |
