"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my dear! Have a little respect. You must never do that again!" cried Miss Briskett, irritably, but the girl showed not the faintest ...
— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... matter? Has everyone gone mad to-day? What do you mean by suddenly getting up from the table and tearing away like that? What does Paramore mean by reading his paper and not answering when he's spoken to? (Julia writhes impatiently.) Come, come (tenderly): won't my pet tell her own father what— (irritably) what the devil is wrong with everybody? Do pull yourself straight, Julia, before Cuthbertson comes. He's only paying the bill: he'll be ...
— The Philanderer • George Bernard Shaw
... "Lud!" remarked the King irritably, "the girl must have a name. You must marry her, Francis—she shall be Lady Tunnell-Penge." Then the impulsive monarch stooped, and, opening a locket on the unconscious woman's breast, read the name Sarah in blue diamonds on an opaque background. "But," he added softly under his ...
— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward
... me like that," she exclaimed irritably. "You must hear the truth sometimes. And now, please remember that I came to lunch with you to hear ...
— The Yellow Crayon • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... don't you 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 he comes ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... somebody to help me," said Mrs. Hildreth gratefully. "Rosemary, Miss Clinton telephoned me this morning she wanted a dozen fresh eggs—why do they always say 'fresh eggs'?" she broke off irritably. "'Tisn't likely I'd go out and get her a dozen stale eggs, even if I could find 'em. Well, she wants them this afternoon and I hate to disappoint her. She's kind of used to getting what she wants and everybody feels sorry for her. I know you like to walk ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... head out of the towel. "Go and see what she wants," he commanded irritably. "She'll wake the ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... a lot of rot!" he burst forth irritably. "You needn't ask my advice about farming! Before you'd get your crop off your farm next Fall the Kaiser of Germany would have everything to say about it. How will you like it when you have to pass over most of your profits to him and his War Lords? Here we are planning and scheming ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith
... very worst person I could have selected to introduce me to General Laguerre. It seemed as though it certainly would have been better had I found my way to him alone. I grew so uneasy concerning my possible reception that I said, irritably: "Doesn't the General know you ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... dear boy," said the Rector a little irritably, "not to apply such a loose fatalism to your career. What will you do if you don't go ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie
... pore," Briskow said, irritably. "Not now he ain't. I says it's his deal an' his money, an' we got plenty. An' I stuck ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... nice mess!" Bob ejaculated irritably. "Why, I'd rather have given a hundred dollars than have this happen. I'll wring that ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... Hindustani was still a negligible quantity, made no attempt to follow the man's remarks. She reiterated her wish, adding irritably, "Make no foolish talk. It ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver
... Vane, rather irritably; "of course there is a form of oath—to be taken reverently—reverently, and there's an end of it. But to talk in a public place about one's most sacred and private sentiments—well, I call it bad taste. (Slight applause.) I call it irreverent. ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton
... Sir Charles 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 I'm a little ...
— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson
... thrust his sister from him, saying, irritably, "Why do you worrit me with questions? ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... it down they be Papistical somewhat too soon, Aunt," said Aubrey a little irritably. "Mr Winter and his friends, if they be whom you hit at, be gone away into the country, and I have not seen them this ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... 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
... these fall 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
... uncle's shoulder. "I don't know that it's any hotter in here than anywhere else!" he demurred, irritably. He was in his shirt-sleeves, and he had that moment removed his collar and neck-tie. Uncle Timothy had got as far as taking off his waistcoat and donning an old alpaca coat, in which he had been striving to imagine ...
— Strawberry Acres • Grace S. Richmond
... the 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
... difficulty to the good people of Ule. 'Why,' they would reply a little irritably, for they liked to think that the sun was theirs and theirs only, 'surely the sun can walk in his sleep as well—nay, better—than ordinary folk? A baby could see that!' they would add ...
— The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice • E. V. Lucas
... moving 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 ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... 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 sex either. I have ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... said to her as they parted, speaking irritably, for he was irritated both by the audience and by her, "what these people are coming to. ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim
... teeth and throw me overboard?" he thought, and at the very last, he changed his tactics and devoted himself to the heiress with an assiduity which left her little doubt of his intentions. Still, to her he did not speak, though to his mother he said, half irritably, as if it were something wrung from him ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... him at all," replied Ernest irritably. "I went up to see him on my way home. He told us to call on him if we ever were in New York. And I wasn't coming back to this God forsaken hole without seeing Broadway. Where is ...
— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie
... to this enthusiasm. He reached over to close the register. At once the voices were shut off. Then for some time he sat cross-legged staring straight in front of him. To Johnny's remarks he replied irritably until that youngster flounced himself into a corner with ...
— The Adventures of Bobby Orde • Stewart Edward White
... so busily engaged she could not spare that poor creature a moment or so?" he inquired, irritably. "Where is she?" ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... have to SEE her for, Mama?" Ella would irritably demand, when her autocratic "Who'd you see to-day? What'd you do?" had drawn from her mother the name ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... "I wish," he added irritably, "that you'd wait until I finished before beginning to smash in like that, you knock everything out ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... such folly any longer," the lawyer said irritably. "Now that you have got the money, the best thing you can do is to go at once and carry out what was the wish both of your father and your uncle, and ask your cousin to marry you; that will put an end to the whole ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... that he was. The Head drummed irritably with his fingers on the arm of his chair. This mystery, coming as it did after the series of worries through which he had been passing for the last few days, annoyed him as much as it is to be supposed the last ...
— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse
... Tinker, rather irritably,—"him as was here just now, 'this what you're a laying on, mate, is Tom Tiddler's ground. And if you want to see Tom,' he says, 'you must go in at that gate.' The man come out at that gate himself, ...
— Tom Tiddler's Ground • Charles Dickens
... elder after a fashion, was wayward, selfish, and unstable as water. He would be very sorry sometimes, very repentant, and would promise anything under the sun; but five minutes afterward he would go his own way just the same, and be as irritably resentful of interference as a proud, spoiled, still-childish temper can be. And Cecil—the last man in the world to turn mentor—would light a cheroot, as he did to-night, and forget all about it. The boy would be right enough when he had had his ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... he see—anything?" asked a little wizened lawyer, irritably, one who had never been married, the solicitor of three of ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... a very foolish construction upon what I have said," Wrayson answered irritably. "I have gone out of my way to help you, but, frankly, I think that yours is ...
— The Avenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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, ...
— The Village by the River • H. Louisa Bedford
... 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
... come back," questioned the Big Business Man nervously. "Lord, I wish he wouldn't snore so loud," he added irritably, nodding in the ...
— The Girl in the Golden Atom • Raymond King Cummings
... 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 mother and ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... nonsense!" said the lad irritably. "So tiresome, just too as we have come in sight of ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... 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
... has?' said the Family Egotist, irritably. 'What does one fool more in the world matter? Do stop rotting, you ...
— Modern marriage and how to bear it • Maud Churton Braby
... his tone that this forgetfulness was an affectation. "You know very well what her name is," said he irritably. "What ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... 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
... better 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
... O'Sullivan Og cried irritably. He gave a secret sign to his men to draw to one side and be ready. "We've our orders, and other work to do. Kneel aside, father, 'tis no harm we mean you, God forbid! But you're wasting breath on these same. And you," he continued, addressing the two, "say what ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman
... 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 ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... Henry," almost irritably responded Count Vavel. "I swear to you, by the peace of my own soul, that the load beneath which you groan is not sin, but virtue. If it be true that human speech and thought are transmitted to the other world, and if there ...
— The Nameless Castle • Maurus Jokai
... 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 ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... and seemed absorbed in some intricate calculation. She would sit for hours, brooding sombrely. Her eyes, narrowed and serpent-like, gazed at the rushing waters, but when Madame de Ruth remarked on the beauty of the scene she would answer irritably that she was occupied, and only begged for quiet in which to think. Towards the middle of August Schuetz arrived from Vienna. He brought with him a document which he prayed Wilhelmine to consider, and to sign if she approved. It was entitled 'Revers de Wilhelmine, Comtesse Graevenitz,' ...
— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay
... made any difference," she went on irritably. "Some one else will get his job. That's all. What does he care about the Germans? He left them and came to America as soon as ...
— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Michael," cried Gould, irritably. "We'd 'ave found 'im if we could, for you bet 'e saw the burglary. Don't YOU start looking for 'im. Look for your own 'ead in the dustbin. You'll find that—after a bit," and his ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton
... not 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 talk of the house. It's just a piece of his selfishness," she ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... herself in the midst of a ghastly silence. The young people had been prepared to cheer and encourage a bashful stranger, but the self-possession of this thin, pale-faced girl took them by surprise, so that they sat round the table playing uncomfortably with teaspoons and knives, and irritably conscious that they, and not the new-comer, were the ones to be overcome with confusion. The silence lasted for a good two minutes, and was broken at last by Miss ...
— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... by the growing agitation of his father's letters. Isaac wrote reproachfully, irritably, frantically, and received only the briefest, most unsatisfactory replies. "I can't tell you anything more than I have. But I wouldn't be in a hurry to make any arrangements with Pilkington, if I were you." Not the smallest reference to the Aldine Plato, the Neapolitan Horace or the Aurea ...
— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair
... difficulty in following you. I should like to hear William's side of the story," he said irritably. "I think he ought to have spoken to ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... He tugged irritably at his moustache. "I don't know!" he replied. "Of course it was no surprise to find that there isn't a Mohammedan who'll lay his little finger on Professor Deeping's safe! There's no doubt in my mind that every lascar at the docks ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... going to tell you,' said Bounderby, irritably giving his arm to Mrs. Sparsit. 'If you hadn't been so mighty particular about the sum, I should have begun to tell you before. You know this lady (for she ...
— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*
... 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 her away. ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock
... don't stop any longer!" Dorward said irritably. "You get on my nerves with all this foolish talk. In an hour's time I am going to bolt my door and go to sleep. We'll breakfast together in the morning, if ...
— Havoc • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... want them,' returned Bradley, irritably, 'because I would rather not have them, but would much prefer to follow him all night. However, if he won't lead, I can't follow. I have been waiting about, until I could discover, for a certainty, at what time he starts; if ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... blaster, lying on the floor. Calhoun often petted him when, imitating, he picked up something that had been dropped. Murgatroyd went over to the blaster. He looked back at Calhoun. Calhoun paced irritably up and down. The grid operator stood with clenched hands, contemplating the ...
— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... more can I say?" Noemi exclaimed rather irritably, and went to the open window as if to ascertain the intention of the clouds. Giovanni took a step towards her, determined to conquer her reticence. She had a presentiment of this, and, as an expedient, she asked what his predictions ...
— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro
... 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, in eight ...
— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall
... remembered that Grogan of the Artillery, the club bore, had a daughter and son-in-law sailing from Tilbury next morning, and had suggested his accompanying him to the docks. "Why he should have asked me," the General had said irritably, "when I can barely endure him for half-an-hour, is more ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... 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 time, betraying anxiety, so as the burro disappeared in the blue mist, ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan
... 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 ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... I did nothing of the kind,' he returned, a little irritably. 'You meant well, Ursula, but it would have been ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... not a little, and he felt irritably that somebody had mismanaged matters. He had supposed, and indeed suggested, that Miss Bretherton should enclose his note in one of her own to his sister's Paris address, giving, at the same time, some indication of a place of ...
— Miss Bretherton • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the old mahogany rack. "I've nothing to ride," he replied irritably, "and I don't choose to walk—that's ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... sake let her go home, and stay there till she is better," said the Colonel, irritably. "A love lorn young lady perpetually before me I cannot ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... said 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 ...
— Taken Alive • E. P. Roe
... arrived-a host of men; but he had strictly ordered that no one, not even his wife, was to be admitted to his presence. The comfort of tears was denied him, but his grief gripped him at the heart, clouded his brain and made hint so irritably sensitive that an unfamiliar voice, though even at a distance, disturbed him ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... 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
... a quality which almost caused Mr. Daney to imagine that he had hackles on his back and that they were rising. He much preferred the note of anger of a few minutes previous; with a rush all of his old apprehensions returned, and he rasped out at her irritably: ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... 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 ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... along," said the Magician, irritably. "You're only an annoyance, anyhow, and I'm glad to get ...
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... 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
... the camp-life," Ruth said, irritably. "I am not so much a baby as to care about those things to such a degree that I can't endure them, though everything is disagreeable enough; but that ...
— Four Girls at Chautauqua • Pansy
... I going to get in?" Hank said irritably. "I've had no background for this cloak and ...
— Combat • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... 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
... He said it almost irritably. "I mean I shouldn't have thought you could have cared for a brute like that.... But the brutes ...
— The Romantic • May Sinclair
... 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 who ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... irritably, as he touched Ethel's forehead with his lips, "that you would not make your room quite so much like a fancy ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... take the noon express, he can't go in an hour. You certainly know that, Maria. Well, if I have to find him, I'd better go at once," buttoning his coat irritably. "I never ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XI, No. 27, June, 1873 • Various
... 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 ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... head a bit irritably. "Pardon me, sir," he said, "but I am telling you the truth. I am not mistaken. I circled over the place several times. It may be that Oldwick has found his way there—or has ...
— Tarzan the Untamed • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... bank door 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 an instant; the forehead smoothed back ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... 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 obliged ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... fainter. Then, after Barbara's death, her strength went, 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 children, but ...
— The Judgment of Eve • May Sinclair
... aware 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, ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... went on Julien irritably. "I don't say that she is dangerously ill. You always see so much more than is meant. She is changed, that's all; it's only natural she should begin to break up ...
— The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) - Une Vie and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893
... name 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 possible ...
— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace
... 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 ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... wish they 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 ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the scene with an expression of mingled impatience, malignity, and disgust written plainly on his furrowed features, and as soon as the hubbub of applause had subsided, he struck his staff on the ground with an angry clang, and exclaimed irritably: ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli
... ass!" Sir Henry exclaimed irritably. "I don't want the fellow touched at present. Why, he's been a sort of persona grata at my house. Hangs around there all ...
— The Zeppelin's Passenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... he drove out there, with Howard sitting beside 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 ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... 1916, 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
... that gong! how it does belabor and thrash one's tympanum!" said the judge irritably, as he slowly arose to dress ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... she said irritably. "Perhaps I'm developing nerves. I do wish you would take me to New York. Other women get away from this town once ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... said Mr. Jordan, irritably pointing Mrs. Morel to a horse-hair chair. She sat on the edge in an uncertain fashion. Then the little old man ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence
... Falloden irritably to Meyrick, with whom he was walking arm in arm, "what a noise that fellow Radowitz makes! Why should we have to listen to him? He behaves as though the whole college belonged to him. We can't hear ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... come to speak to you?" Mr Ffolliot demanded, irritably. "You must see that the matter ...
— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker
... to see you get licked," denied Craig irritably. "All I ask is that you shelve some of your cock-sureness. I'm not so dead-broke that I must swallow all of it. I've warned you that he is a strong man. He used to be one of the best college ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath
... the third man irritably. "Proceed! Proceed! Proceed! Himmel, you must be led step by step! Speak, idiot! How ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... 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 for the mechanic who ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... that's what I came up here to hear you say," he said irritably. "But I don't reckon it can be done, Joe. ...
— The Coyote - A Western Story • James Roberts
... wish to the Lord you'd let me!" growled Priming, irritably rubbing his head with the handle ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... smiling a little as she did so. She was no longer afraid of Sir John Blake. In fact she was becoming very fond of him, though it hurt her always to hear how sharply and irritably he spoke to his gentle, yielding wife. Of course Lady Blake was very unreasonable sometimes—but she was so helpless, so clinging, and so fond ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... general in one of his outbursts of generosity would have permitted this, but that Nicanor happened in at an evil moment and drew such pictures of calamitous effect in passing the old servant into Jerusalem that Titus was forced reluctantly and irritably to be convinced of the folly of his kindness. So here, through the terrible days of the siege, old Momus at times desperate and savage, at others piteously suppliant, wore on the sentries' peace of mind and stood like a shadow, for ever watching the white ...
— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller
... narrative. They remained quite still, and not one of the three spoke. Ainley evidently found the silence too much for his nerves, for after a little time had passed in profound silence, he flashed out irritably: ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns
... are you talking about, Anna?" interrupted Susie irritably. It was late, and she wanted to rest for a few minutes before dressing to go out again, and here was Anna in a new mood of a violent nature, and she was weary beyond measure ...
— The Benefactress • Elizabeth Beauchamp
... 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? Where'd ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... case of American woman,—too finely organized for the plain animal duties. A lot of my women patients are the same way. They take child-bearing hard,—damned hard.... What's the matter with them? I don't know!" he concluded irritably. "She must just go slow until she gets ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... whose back was toward her husband, the latter had shot a warning glance. "Come, come, Edith," he cried irritably; ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... undisturbed in her routine, brings in the morning's letters. FRANCES rounds on her irritably. ...
— Waste - A Tragedy, In Four Acts • Granville Barker
... 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
... the row!" demanded Balcome, irritably, looking around for his hat, which Hattie had taken from him in order to make him more presentable ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... Aaron continued irritably, "that the coming of Maraton has changed many things? A man like that can't serve under anybody, and no man could come as a stranger and lead the Labour Party. He has to be outside. This is a working man's constituency. He is pledged to fight ...
— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... The young woman was irritably suspicious that he found her anger amusing, just as he seemed to find the dangerous position in which he was placed. Yet her resentment coexisted with a sympathy for him that would not down. She believed he was marked for death by a coterie of those present, chief of whom was the man smiling ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... he showed her how he upset a man once and stood him on his head," he said, irritably. "I was what ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs
... are again, my 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 than the moon' and I am thinking of the woman who excels ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... that!" cried her mother, irritably. Then she asked suddenly a question which startled ...
— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason
... Lucille. "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 head like a bulldog ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... excitement of combat the veneer of apologetic diffidence was beginning to wear off Mr Mennick. He spoke irritably. Cynthia appealed to his reason with the air of a bored princess descending to argument with ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... you to say "poor" granny,' said Frances, rather irritably. 'Say "dear" granny. And Jacinth, whether it's true or not that in some ways we were rather spoilt and—and—not methodical and all that, at Stannesley, I wish you'd never say it to Aunt Alison. She's quite ready enough to be down on all ...
— Robin Redbreast - A Story for Girls • Mary Louisa Molesworth
... Bones!" said Sanders irritably. "Your job is to make these beggars work. They'll simply sit and die unless you start them on drainage work. Cut a few ditches with a fall to the river; kick Ranabini for me; take up a few kilos of quinine ...
— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace
... Yollop, irritably; "you got me in this position and I want you to get me out of it. While I've been squatting here listening to you, they've both gone to sleep and I'm hanged if I can move 'em. I never would have dreamed of sitting on them if you hadn't put the idea into ...
— Yollop • George Barr McCutcheon
... what she had actually anticipated. Certainly, she told herself irritably, she could not have expected him to have treated her with marked warmth of manner in the presence of others, and therefore his behaviour had been just what the circumstances demanded. But, notwithstanding the assurance she gave herself that this was the common-sense view to take of the matter, she ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler
... irritably; "your ideas of psychology would make a Manx cat laugh! I suppose, on the same analogy, you think the leader-writers of the dailies could run the Government better than the Cabinet ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... will 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
... was rather thin, his cheeks were 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 ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... why do you ask?' replied Waring, irritably. 'But some things may be pardoned, I think, in ...
— Castle Nowhere • Constance Fenimore Woolson
... Valentine," Julian repeated rather irritably. His temper was much less certain and sunny lately than of old. "But I believe he's devoted to every one he can do any good to. We used to see him continually, but he's been abroad for weeks, looking after a bad case, a Russian Grand Duke ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens
... things, about all this, that I don't understand," he continued, irritably, as Claire and the still growling but tight-held Bobby followed him to the veranda. "For instance, how that dog happens to be here and trying to protect a total stranger. For, Bobby only got to Miami, from New Jersey, by this morning's train. He ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
... 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 his line should not die out. So he begged me to use my influence. Well, I saw, of ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... 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 ...
— The American • Henry James
... '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 I remember. Well her claim to be a cook is the falsest I ever heard of. I'd sooner take my ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson
... genuinely fond of him that she hated to give him pain. Looking at him, standing before her in his splendid young manhood, she wondered irritably why she didn't love ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... in her gaze and the color flooded her face. Mechanically, sweeping back the straggling lock of hair, she raised herself without removing her eyes. He who had expected a tempest of tears shifted uneasily, even irritably, from that steady stare, until, finding the silence intolerable, he ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... suitcases while Rick grabbed Marks' other arm. The scientist shook him off. "I'm perfectly all right," he said irritably. "Confound it! Rouse a man at the crack of dawn and expect him to respond like a ballet dancer to a ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine
... this heckled mood, turned irritably to his ball, played a long midiron, just cleared the crescent bank of the last swale, and ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson
... have been," she was admonishing herself, irritably, when she saw Phoebe run around the side of the house and stand looking up at the ...
— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes
... (irritably). "You have not encountered anything yet, save an inability to deal with the ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... butterflies as usual," said Mrs. Flanders irritably, but was surprised by a sudden afterthought, "Cricket ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... this woman they call the 'Queen'?" said Calton, irritably. "She seems to be at the bottom of the whole affair—every path we take leads ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... heard the clatter of a waggon passing along it. The noise irritated him sorely—he could not tell why. 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
... to walk up and down the length of the long room, pushing aside the cushions irritably, and at one end knocking over a great bowl of flowers. He did not appear conscious of his clumsiness, and did not seem to see the maids who ran to mop up the water. At the next turn down the room he pushed between them as if they had not been there. Ranjoor ...
— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy
... here? And who the devil are you?" demanded the guiding genius of The Searchlight, looking up irritably. He raised his voice. "Con!" ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... did 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 ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux |
