"Irascible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... if I insisted, it's only because I'm very fond of our poor friend, noire irascible ami, and have always taken an interest in him.... In my opinion that man changed his former, possibly over-youthful but yet sound ideas, too abruptly. And now he says all sorts of things about notre Sainte ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... across to breakfast at his club, when he found himself almost forced to accompany Mr. Hart into a little private room at the left hand of the hall of the hotel. He wanted his breakfast badly, and was altogether out of humour. He had usually found Mr. Hart to be an enduring man, not irascible, though very pertinacious, and sometimes almost good-natured. For a moment he thought he would bully Mr. Hart, but when he looked into Mr. Hart's face, his heart ...
— Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite • Anthony Trollope
... Barnby was in a perspiration. The keen, little old man was besting and flurrying him; he was no match for this irascible invalid. ...
— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley
... subject and play upon it, and make it pass from guest to guest at dinner or in the drawing-room. It is the discussion of any topic whatever, from religion to the fashions, and the avoidance of any phase of any subject which might stir the irascible talker to controversy. As exprest by Cowper in ...
— Conversation - What to Say and How to Say it • Mary Greer Conklin
... resumed a comrade, a very irascible little painter with a fair complexion. 'You surely don't want to make us swallow such a turnip ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
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