"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... irritably again. "It's an old glass. I was looking over some rubbish, and I found it—over back. It's a ...
— Christmas - A Story • Zona Gale
... detective, Malone told himself irritably, needed clues of some kind. And this thing, whatever it was, was not playing fair. It didn't go around leaving bloody fingerprints or lipsticked cigarette butts or packets of paper matches with Ciro's, Hollywood, written on them. ...
— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett
... the deuce is this woman they call the 'Queen'?" said Calton, irritably. "She seems to be at the bottom of the whole affair—every path we ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... his eyes, the captain said in a quavering tone: "They are waving to us with something aft there." He put down the glasses on the skylight brusquely, and began to walk about the poop. "A shirt or a flag," he ejaculated irritably. "Can't make it out. . . Some damn rag or other!" He took a few more turns on the poop, glancing down over the rail now and then to see how fast we were moving. His nervous footsteps rang sharply in the quiet ...
— The Mirror of the Sea • Joseph Conrad
... 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
... 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 conceived the ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... all right—there's plenty of time," he responded irritably. "Only you mustn't make mountains out ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... 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 ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... 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 ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... 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 tap at the ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully
... said the Professor, rubbing up his hair irritably, "dear me! I'd no idea of this—no idea at all. I was under the impression that you volunteered to act as escort to my wife and daughter at St. Luc purely out of good nature to relieve me from what—to a man of my habits in that extreme heat—would have been an ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... piling up overhead blacker and more menacing every minute. At length, when we were a bare three miles from the brig, the helmsman reported that we no longer had steerage-way, and as the Francesca slowly swung round upon her heel, bringing the brig broad on her starboard quarter, Mendouca stamped irritably on the deck, and cursed the weather, the brig, the brigantine; in fact he cursed "everything above an inch high," as we say in the navy when we wish to describe a thorough, comprehensive outburst of profanity. At length, having given ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood
... whose 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
... eyes sparkled irritably and angrily, his lips twisted with contempt, and the wrinkles ...
— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky
... me that he's not expected to live," said Mr. Briggerland. He rubbed his bald head irritably. "I wonder if that lunatic ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... protection, Luke Peterson met a cold reception in the house where he had hitherto found a gentle and kind one. And by-and-by, finding himself very little spoken to at all, and then sharply and irritably, the great soft fellow fell to whimpering, and asked Margaret plump if he had done ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... was usually at her heels," he said almost irritably. It was the second time he had heard that comment, and he found it ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers
... 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 ...
— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse
... the terrestrial globe, sir," says Mr. BUMSTEAD, irritably. "The great spherical foundation, sir, upon which Boston has since ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870 • Various
... any rate, Barney conceded to himself, had to be regarded as an improvement on the first. Well, he added irritably, and what wouldn't be? It hadn't been delightful, he'd frequently felt almost stupefied with boredom. But physically, at least, he was fit—considerably fitter, as a matter of fact, than he'd ever been ...
— Gone Fishing • James H. Schmitz
... 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 to the ...
— The Children • Alice Meynell
... shop-keeper wailed like a man beside himself. He gabbled, imploring Heywood. The young man nodded. "Yes, yes," he repeated irritably, staring down at the body, but listening to the stream ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... odd happening! He 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, rather the ...
— The Silver Butterfly • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... up irritably. "Goodness! Is that all." She also listened, then added: "What nonsense you talk, Ethel! There is not a sound. They have stopped work ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... she spoke with him. He seemed to be repeating a brief phrase over and over again, harshly and irritably; but she was cajoling, remonstrating, arguing, as he had seen her argue in that ill-fated room ...
— The Second Class Passenger • Perceval Gibbon
... 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 ...
— Youth • Leo Tolstoy
... 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 ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... was unexpectedly cold 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 ...
— The Adventures of Bobby Orde • Stewart Edward White
... He wondered irritably what could have detained his guest. Some professional matter, no doubt—the punctilious lawyer would have allowed nothing less to interfere with a dinner engagement, more especially since Granice, in his note, had said: "I shall want a ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) • Edith Wharton
... such an infernal row in the street," said Galli, irritably. "Is that window shut, Riccardo? One ...
— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich
... 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 bird ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... with a faint cry. "I wish you wouldn't startle me," she said, irritably, sinking back on the sofa. "Any sudden alarm sets my heart beating as ...
— The New Magdalen • Wilkie Collins
... to heroines, 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 ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison
... 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 ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... said Eric, half irritably, half laughingly, "have you and David Baker entered into a conspiracy to hound me into matrimony whether I ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... 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 ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... sharply, irritably, the length to which his projections had reached. What were they all about? The answer was presented by the glittering figure of the Manchu; she had risen and was standing in the entrance of the summerhouse. He thought, ...
— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer
... devoted to 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 ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens
... his face. He had met Mrs. Whitney at the foot of the staircase, dressed for paying visits. "Oh, are you going out?" he said, glancing impatiently at her attire. "And I'd just started to speak to you on a matter of great importance! Of the greatest importance indeed!" he repeated irritably, as he stood with one gloved hand ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... substituted for a 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 ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
... it almost irritably. "I mean I shouldn't have thought you could have cared for a brute like that.... But the brutes women do ...
— The Romantic • May Sinclair
... a little irritably. "No! It's rather difficult—he doesn't seem to know what to do and say. I suppose it's being in New Zealand so long! It makes it rather difficult ...
— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole
... 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
... almost irritably, for her nerves were sadly worn, "what good can such words do? We must live, I suppose, ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... feeling for the donor. Zabastes meanwhile had witnessed 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
... Babbitt looked up irritably from the comic strips in the Evening Advocate. They composed his favorite literature and art, these illustrated chronicles in which Mr. Mutt hit Mr. Jeff with a rotten egg, and Mother corrected Father's vulgarisms by means ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... a-here," he demanded one afternoon, irritably. "Wasn't there ANYBODY else down to Boston but just ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... irritably. "There are some things that aren't any too becoming to college kids—however, you can forgive them! But when it comes to an ass like Hazzard chasing to every beauty show, and taking good little ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... 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 herself forward so, and really thrown us out ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
... he showed her how he upset a man once and stood him on his head," he said, irritably. "I was what he ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs
... better 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 ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... said the sleepless man irritably, "the other thing. No man can keep sane if night ...
— When the Sleeper Wakes • Herbert George Wells
... 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 ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... 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
... you 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 ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... 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
... 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 ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... impatient. "I 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 Good Comrade • Una L. Silberrad
... the Inn. No one saw him but the man who brought him food. He did not send for a doctor, because he did not wish to see one. He sent for such remedies as were needed by a man who had been bruised by a fall from his horse. He made no remark which could be considered explanatory, after he had said irritably that a man was a fool to go loitering along on a nervous brute who needed watching. Whatsoever happened was his ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... body," Dr. Burrows continued irritably, "found under circumstances clearly indicative of murder, and bearing a knife-wound that nearly divided the arch of the aorta; in spite of which, I assure you that Dr. Thorndyke insisted on weighing the body, and examining every organ—lungs, liver, stomach, and brain—yes, actually the ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... with a bowl of violets on it, and a big lamp. Robert Ferguson rose, and stood with his hands behind him, looking down at her. His hair, in a stiff brush above his forehead, was quite gray, but his face in its unwonted emotion seemed quivering with youth. He knocked off his glasses irritably. "I never know how to say things," he said, in a ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... think it 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 hollows beneath ...
— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
... in Tom irritably. "Let us not discuss such an impossibility. We're wasting time. You have your duties. This is not one of them. It's a fine impulse, generous. Oliver appreciates it. But it's quite ...
— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty
... Duncan, irritably, "I think you are treating the witness too indulgently. I believe this box to be the ...
— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger
... 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. I've half ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... they do?" he went on irritably. "What did they do but procrastinate, knowing we wanted it! Put us off. Postponed a decision. Practically refused to give it to us, knowing we wanted it! Other things came up in the meantime, so we did not press them, and the ...
— Peking Dust • Ellen N. La Motte
... 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
... learn that lesson?" asked the factor irritably, sipping his tea. The shots had reached his ears, and the swift departure of the rescuers had been heard ...
— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams
... his 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
... chair on the opposite side of the fireplace, looked at Mrs. McDougal half irritably, half perplexedly. To walk from Milltown to Pelham Place in a heavy snow with no overshoes and no umbrella was just like her. She shouldn't have come, and yet Miss Gibbie was not sorry she had come. There were times when Mrs. McDougal's chatter was unendurable, but others when ...
— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher
... said Ralph, irritably, 'but attend to me. This tale was originally fabricated as a means of annoyance against one who hurt your trade and half cudgelled you to death, and to enable you to obtain repossession of a half-dead drudge, whom you wished to ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... we have," said Miss Quincey. She said it irritably, but everybody knows that a little temper is the surest symptom of returning health. ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... 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 ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... that; the sailors lost two more pawns, Stavlokratz had lost nothing as yet. He looked at me I thought almost irritably, as though something would happen that he wished I was not there to see. I believed at first that he had qualms about taking the sailors' pound, until it dawned on me that he might lose the game; I saw that possibility in his face, not on the board, for the ...
— Tales of Wonder • Lord Dunsany
... 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. ...
— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... a good-tempered smile, "I reck'n it's good many hours yet till break ob day, massa. Yer can't fool March on de time; his clock neber breaks down. It's jest right ebery time." Wright returned to his lair in the thicket, remarking irritably, as he threw himself down, "Glazier, you might as well undertake to move a mountain, as to get the start of that ...
— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens
... 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 ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... You ain't in a restaurant waiting for a meal," the little fat man reminded one of his tools irritably. Then, as he caught sight ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine
... 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. ...
— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy
... sullen and uneasy. "I don't know why you should talk to me in this strain," he said irritably. "I appreciate what you have done for me, and have no reason to treat ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... you been keeping yourselves?" said Owl irritably. "Ember's It, and we've waited ...
— The Cat in Grandfather's House • Carl Henry Grabo
... irritably. "You've got us into this—I didn't want to do it; but I'll stand by you, of course. Only you'll have to think ...
— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner
... Rowcliffe moved irritably under Mary's eyes. She lowered them and waited for the silken sound that should have told her that he ...
— The Three Sisters • May Sinclair
... 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 ...
— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... finger ominously in Cowperwood's face, and the latter turned irritably away. "He is showing off for the benefit of his future," he whispered to Steger. "I wish you could tell the ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... 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 knows ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... repeated Cyn, irritably. "Of course I care for him! Is it not my pet scheme that he should marry Nattie? Certainly it is, and has been from the first! And now, if he has gone and fallen in love with me, a nice predicament ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... 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
... its edge if it be not hard and true?" he shouted irritably, and snatching the sword from the Mime's hand he struck it upon the anvil and it ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... his hand through his hair, but time irritably, then shook his head from side to side rubbed his hand ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... she exclaimed irritably. "What else is a girl to do, I'd like to ask? It's just going from one stove to another, here. Only it'll be worse in my case—you and Aunt Ettie have been lovely to me. I hate to cook!" she cried. "And it makes me sick to put my hands in greasy dishwater! I suppose that's wicked ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer
... 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 ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... "Really!" he protested irritably, "you reporters butt in everywhere. No public man is safe. Is there no place we can go where ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... want?" Betty thought irritably. She was beginning to feel anxious to get upstairs to her mother again. For in spite of the fact that she now believed that she had a real affection for Esther, she had never been able to recover from her first prejudice for this shabby, hesitating man. Then his manner ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World • Margaret Vandercook
... here?" she said a little irritably; then, hearing his humble answer that he had just come to enjoy the view, felt ashamed of herself, and tried to ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... 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
... it," the baron said, irritably. "There must be more ways of marching to Lille than one. If one road is barred, why not advance by another? The Duke of Burgundy is not with the army now, so the blame cannot be ...
— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty
... said the Family Egotist, irritably. 'What does one fool more in the world matter? Do stop rotting, you fellows, and pass ...
— Modern marriage and how to bear it • Maud Churton Braby
... the serious expenses were looked after by the general, but still a little money. How could she get it? How could she remind him of his neglect without seeming to be indelicate? It was a difficult problem. She worked at it more and more continuously, and irritably, and nervously, as the days went by and her fifty-two francs ...
— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips
... a small, abstracted part of his mind, someone talking to Hilary in the hall. The low-toned conversation vaguely worried his subconscious self; he wished people would converse more audibly. But probably it was private.... Peter suddenly frowned irritably and sat upright, biting at his pen. He was annoyed with himself. It was so impertinent, so much the sort of thing he most disliked, to be speculating, as he had suddenly found himself doing, on the nature of another person's ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... economical man I ever saw," declared the Prince, irritably. "I wouldn't be so mean with my old footprints; nobody else would bother to pick them up. And as for breath, you might spare a little more of that; it ...
— Prince Vance - The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box • Eleanor Putnam
... 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
... 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
... with me?" he asked himself irritably. "I'm my own master, I guess. Nobody can put anything over on me. What need I care if she opens a dozen restaurants? One would think I was afraid of the girl! Ridiculous! Lord! I wish she were at the ...
— The Huntress • Hulbert Footner
... 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 and ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... information from," Jim burst out irritably. "Tell us about it. You ain't goin' to lose ...
— When God Laughs and Other Stories • Jack London
... with your nonsense!" says Barbro irritably, for all that Axel has asked innocently enough. And in her bitterness she lets out what is the matter. "You can see how 'tis with ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... 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 ...
— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood
... is!" he said irritably. "I banged him pretty hard. I don't like to hate anybody, but the ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... several members looked up from their newspapers. One young fellow—I fancy he was a country member recently demobilised—who had evidently watched the incident, exclaimed, "Pretty shot, Sir!" But two or three of the older men frowned irritably and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 28th, 1920 • Various
... Mr. 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 ...
— Yollop • George Barr McCutcheon
... 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, and sent ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... Arthur, a little irritably. "You mean that it is a double-bedded room, and that one of the beds ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins
... 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 ...
— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay
... 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 him. He ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... nonsense!" said the lad irritably. "So tiresome, just too as we have come in sight ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... had left them the brother and sister did not speak for a time. Then the doctor said, irritably: "Julia, say something, for Heaven's sake. What did you ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield
... 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. ...
— The American • Henry James
... the big wheelhorse, which stuck obstinately in the ring. When she loosened it finally, she stooped and looked under the horse's neck at the girl of fourteen or thereabouts, who was unharnessing the horse on the other side. "Good God, Kate," exclaimed the woman irritably; "how many times must I tell you to unhook the traces before you do up the lines? One of these days you'll have the damnedest runaway ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... about the gray suit." Peter spoke sharply. "I won't need it." He got up irritably and began pacing back and forth across the little sitting room. "You're not better," he declared petulantly. "That's the way your mother used to talk—even up to the very last. A year in that office would kill you. I know. The doctor said so. Your only chance is to get into a high, ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... as you choose," Mrs. Mencke returned, irritably, and suddenly swept from the room, ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... none present could know, but no sooner had the words left his lips than a finger-bowl which she held fell from her hands and broke in a hundred glittering fragments on the carpet. At this second proof of incompetence the bishop started irritably, and looked at her without a word. That look was sufficient. A professor unexpectedly roared out upon by his class, a clergyman breaking down in a sermon, could scarcely have experienced a keener sense of professional failure and humiliation than the unfortunate girl knew at that moment. To the ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... something not healthy in his face. It 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 declared. People who saw something pensive and sullen in his eyes were startled by his sudden ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... will," said Chawner irritably, "it will—you mayn't mean to tell of anyone but yourself; but directly Grimstone asks you questions, it all comes out. I know all about it. And, anyway, I forbid you to go up till I give ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... she cried irritably. "It will be time enough when Monte is back again, and we can really 'live.' This wretched existence, with everything restricted and rationed, and all one's friends in Flanders or Mesopotamia or somewhere, drives me mad! I tell you I should ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... Merrington shook his head irritably. Really, it seemed impossible to reach the end of the people who were in this infernal moat-house at the ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees
... no!" said Jeffrey irritably. "I only want to know the state of things here. So I ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... opening. Oh, that accursed garden 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
... mood, turned irritably to his ball, played a long midiron, just cleared the crescent bank of the last swale, and ran ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson
... 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 ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey
... he exclaimed, irritably. "That's the one thing I have against you—you are so worried about what people think. They don't make your life. They certainly don't make mine. Think of yourself first. You have your own life to make. Are you going to let what other people think stand in the way of what you want ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... Jake," he said once, irritably. "This gentleman has come a long way. It's a matter ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Sir 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
... was merely the natural revolt of a very young man against assuming responsibility he had not invited. The resulting discomfort of mind, however, he speedily assigned to the girl's account. He continued, as at first, to ignore her. But in the slow rumination of the forest he became more and more irritably sensible of her presence. Sam's taciturnity was contrastedly sunny and open. He looked on things about him with the placid receptivity of an old man, and said nothing because there was nothing to say. The Ojibway girl remained inscrutable, helping where she could, apparently ...
— The Silent Places • Stewart Edward White
... said Miss Dexter, irritably. "Don't I tell you, Farmer Wise, that they will live on at the Inn? These young gentlemen like comfort, like being waited upon. They do this in order to insure—in order to— oh! it is difficult to explain my meaning, but you must see, Farmer Wise, that it is not a ...
— Crowded Out! and Other Sketches • Susie F. Harrison
... duffer!" he answered irritably. "Can't you ever learn anything after all your long association with me? If you can't do anything else right, at least keep still, and don't ...
— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry
... up-stairs and read peacefully until tea-time. The bell did not ring again. When they came down, Mrs. Baldwin eyed them irritably. ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various
... Egypt?" he burst forth irritably. "Hardly have I overthrown an invader before my people break out. I quiet them in one place and they revolt in another. Must I turn ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... 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
... coming here to worry the young lady," Mrs. Malony declared irritably. "As for Mr. Craig, I told you that ...
— The Black Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... sister from him, saying, irritably, "Why do you worrit me with questions? My arm wants ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... that," said the man irritably; "but we've been 'specting him here ever so long. So's our bo'sun. There, look; he's got his pipe in his hand. Didn't he say nothing ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn
... "There!" cried Rhoda, irritably; "I knew it! I knew there was a moral. I knew perfectly well the moment you began, that it was a roundabout way of preaching to me. If I am to have a sermon, I would rather have it straight out, not wrapped up in jam like a powder. I suppose ...
— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... 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, who, arranging a stand-up fight for the President of the French Republic and the ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 24, 1891. • Various
... 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 ...
— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward
... 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
... irritably; 'anything that has two legs and is ill, that is all Catherine wants to make ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... communicated to them her conviction as 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 ...
— The Ghost Kings • H. Rider Haggard
... 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
... 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 voice died away ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton
... over the rules-book nearly half the time! Now and then they would march to the side-line and consult the Canterbury coach. "Where do you get your authority for that play?" Mr. Conklin would ask a trifle irritably. Thereupon, silently but with a twinkle in his eye, the coach would gravely take the book, flip the pages, lay a finger on a section and ...
— Left End Edwards • Ralph Henry Barbour
... "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
... 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
... 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
... deuce do you mean?" said Mr. Bennett irritably. "Wilhelmina, this man says that you told ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... 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
... have you trounced. You don't play fair. What do you mean by mixing me all up with pity and things—" Esther's lids were not allowed to lift, but her heart gave a little responsive bound. So she had mixed him up!—"Getting the facts all wrong," Jeff went on irritably. "You ignore everything you've felt before to-day. And you begin to-day and say I've not ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown |
