"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was playing on the floor. The mother caught it up irritably, and began lamenting the necessity of washing its dirty little hands and face before packing it off to bed. In a minute or two she went up stairs to discharge these duties. Between her and Richard there was never ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... 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 tap at the ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully
... 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 ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... awake," he said irritably. "I know where I am. I fell asleep on the bench half an hour ago—but," his voice deepened and swelled on the note of awe, "you, Natalie! You or your wraith! I—I can't take it in!" The faded eyes bolted, and swept wearily and ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... laugh?" she inquired almost irritably, for she was secretly afraid always of missing something that was seen by others to be amusing. She talked constantly of a sense of humour, pitying those not blessed with it, but there were ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... act like that before," cried Mollie irritably. "I'd like to give the person that wrote about the 'depravity of inanimate things' a medal. The old tire's got ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope
... He said 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
... know," retorted Austin Gerard irritably, "what 'everybody' has heard, but I suppose it's the usual garbled version made up of distorted fact and malicious gossip. That's why I sent for ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... head irritably. Offers of what his body craved were annoying hindrances before the craving of his soul. He twitched himself free of the sentinels, and limped painfully to where Driscoll sat. He wore no coat, but his green pantaloons with their crimson stripes were rolled to the knee, and the ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... 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
... a wedding or christening. At first he had tried to break through their shyness, and had entered into conversations with them; but these ended in embarrassment on both sides and he left it off. 'I cannot act the democrat,' he thought irritably. ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various
... in her big 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 ...
— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher
... sleep?" growled the boy irritably. "Go to wake you mean! I tell you what I am just ...
— !Tention - A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War • George Manville Fenn
... observations about the Germans. It would not be good strategy to let 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 ...
— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams
... Caesar. Generally they walked together on Sunday, but not always. During these walks, as has been said, Caesar did most of the talking. Now, of a sudden, he became a half-hearted listener, and to John's repeated question, "What's up?" he would reply irritably, "Oh, don't bother—nothing." ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell
... can imagine it," replied his brother irritably, "she insists on our having Mrs. Wells arrested for obstructing the street in front of her house. She asked me if it wasn't against the law, and I took a chance and told her it was. Then she wanted to start for the ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... 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 put ...
— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty
... even more of an effect than she had expected. For several minutes no one spoke, then Ruth said half irritably: ...
— Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party • C. E. Jacobs
... 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 ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... an awfully big head," she commented. "Oh, they always wear their hats way down over their ears." Then, a little vexed at this necessity for repeated reassurance, Tess broke out irritably: ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... not in the least painful to me. It happened of itself," she said irritably; "and see..." she pulled her husband's letter out of ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... 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 ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... you deny it?" Osborne said rather irritably, looking hard at him with an expression of disapproval and mistrust, while my eyes wandered to that little gold medallion ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... me in peace with your damned yellow monkeys!" cried Colonel Webster, banging his fist on the table so hard that the whisky and soda glasses jumped up in a fright, then came down again irritably and wagged their heads disapprovingly, so that the amber-colored fluid spilled over the edge and lay on the table in little ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
... irritably, couldn't those scientists figure out some way to keep the shields up longer than a week? Or else why didn't they have boosting night the same for all departments? He had to stay late every Friday and Alice every Thursday, and all the time ...
— The Very Secret Agent • Mari Wolf
... 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 of ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... arm of her father, who stood glowering irritably at Blake. "Papa, I—I don't understand why you and Tom—Couldn't you— won't you please be a little more cordial? Wait! I have it!" She flashed an eager glance at Blake. "Tom, you'll dine with ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... husband? I started to my feet as the idea occurred to me. Was some new trial of my patience and my fortitude at hand? Half nervously, half irritably, I asked who ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... back into his chair and stared at him. He put out his hand, lifted the packet, dropped it back upon the table, stared again, and then burst out irritably: ...
— Six Feet Four • Jackson Gregory
... you talking 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
... 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 ...
— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson
... had been back a long time when he arrived. She opened the door for him with a red face—she had run so hard after him—and an angry look. "Hm," she said irritably, "you've been kept, ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... from a drawer a form, and his pen scratched irritably at blanks here and there. He tossed it over to Barlow saying, "I'm going to give this decoit this provisional pardon; perhaps it will nail him. What he has confessed is of value. You translate this to him while I think; I can't make ...
— Caste • W. A. Fraser
... 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 ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... 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 ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber
... young man me," Jones irritably cut in. "In the rotunda out there, Dunwoodie gave me a foretaste of your swank and I can tell you I relished it. You won't look at a penny of this money because, if you did, you would be benefiting by an act committed by your father, who, as sure as you live, was impelled ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus
... ... 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 ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... fuss about that, Mary," he cried irritably. "It's nothing. Master Bob won't be able to see ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... irritably)—"I already have a system by which I can save 100 per cent of my time and yours. I'll ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... no!" said Jeffrey irritably. "I only want to know the state of things here. So I can ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... he began, somewhat irritably, as he touched Ethel's forehead with his lips, "that you would not make your room quite so much ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... necessary," Sir Charles said irritably. "I came here in this disguise to pick out certain things that I needed. A kind friend furnished this disguise, and also money for me ...
— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White
... snow tells the truth, madame," said the deputy, irritably. "And the line of his footprints wavers ...
— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc
... heckled mood, turned irritably to his ball, played a long midiron, just cleared the crescent bank of the last swale, and ran up ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson
... 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
... of autobiography without any sense of making a revelation. But she had never before said anything to Will which threw so strong a light on her marriage. He did not shrug his shoulders; and for want of that muscular outlet he thought the more irritably of beautiful lips kissing holy skulls and other emptinesses ecclesiastically enshrined. Also he had to take care that his speech should not betray ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... there must be cases in which death is infinitely preferable to life, and a doctor must know plenty of safe ways of setting free the poor imprisoned wretch as one would free a miserable caged bird. Tell me, has such an experience ever come your way?" He spoke almost irritably now. ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... Bohannan, irritably, "I'm not wholly convinced this is the correct procedure." He spoke in low tones, covered by the purring exhaust of the launch and by the hiss of swiftly cloven waters. "It looks like unnecessary complication, to ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England
... 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 is ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver
... he has?' said the Family Egotist, irritably. 'What does one fool more in the world matter? Do stop rotting, you fellows, and ...
— Modern marriage and how to bear it • Maud Churton Braby
... remember," he said irritably. "It seems to me that I've been kept in the dark. You went to the police to demand an investigation into your brother's death, but you did not say anything of the disclosure he made to you yesterday of his daughter's illegitimacy. Instead of doing so, ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... how you look," observed Jack irritably. "If we didn't now live in such a huggery-muggery way, I should always dress. I do ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
... tell the thing in my own way," said Jones irritably. "The late Lord Rochester got dreadfully involved owing to his own stupidity with a woman—I call him the late Lord Rochester because I have to announce now the ...
— The Man Who Lost Himself • H. De Vere Stacpoole
... of fish," the squire said irritably. "What on earth did the boy mean by getting himself mixed up with such an ...
— With Wolfe in Canada - The Winning of a Continent • G. A. Henty
... 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 into its normal placidity and his ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... Mrs. Dodd came up the walk, his temper not improved by stumbling over the twins and the milk-pan, and above their united wails loudly censured Dorothy for the noise and confusion. "How in the devil do you expect me to work?" he demanded, irritably. "If you can't keep the house quiet, I'll go back ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed
... his dark face glowing, an eagerness and a touch of derisiveness on his wide mouth, something grinning and twisted, his eyes always shining like a bird's, utterly without depth. There was no getting hold of the fellow, Brangwen irritably thought. He was like a grinning young tom-cat, that came when he thought he would, and without ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... do not," said Pitman. "I do not, and I don't want to," he added irritably. And then, feeling some diversion needful, he fell upon Michael and shook ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... complaint!" he cried irritably. "A man spits on his own class and wants to get into another one. But that's not the point at stake, damn it all! We want to stay precisely where we are, shoemakers and bakers, all together! But we must ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... 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 free vent to his impatience, he stood for a moment intently studying ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood
... detective irritably, "you don't suppose I've been at this job for twenty years and should overlook the one place where I expected to ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace
... 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 of ...
— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner
... him off irritably. One didn't require the superstitions of an alcoholic imagination to emphasize the new terror which had overtaken the world. There was enough of fear in the air already. All this spurious gaiety—what was it? Nothing but the chatter of ...
— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson
... Jackson. 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
... we have," said Miss Quincey. She said it irritably, but everybody knows that a little temper is the surest symptom of returning health. "What ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... 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 rouge! Go on about Von Lembke if ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... 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, "I 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 ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... 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. Presently ...
— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher
... firing into silence. Something rattled and flopped in a chute at his elbow. He turned, irritably. That Mr. Pierce's attention should have been diverted even for a moment by this was sufficient evidence that he was disconcerted by the immobility of the foe. But his glance quickly reverted and with added weight. Heavily he stared, then delivered ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... ain't pore," Briskow said, irritably. "Not now he ain't. I says it's his deal an' his money, an' we got plenty. ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... 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 then we ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Kennedy," he said, irritably—rebuking people on an empty stomach always ruffled ...
— The Head of Kay's • P. G. Wodehouse
... 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 ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... of him," said Mr. Bowles irritably, "I wrote so that he should get the letter by the first ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... that's what I came up here to hear you say," he said irritably. "But I don't reckon it can be done, Joe. I haven't any ...
— The Coyote - A Western Story • James Roberts
... accuse you of no crime!" he said irritably. "As individuals and as a group, your intention from the beginning has been to prevent the crime against the Federation from being committed. The Great Satogs simply did too good a job. You have been given the most searching physical examinations possible. They show uniformly that your genetic ...
— The Other Likeness • James H. Schmitz
... be good enough to examine this witness," he said a little irritably. "These irregular interruptions! But let her say what she ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... presently to say that vain must be all attempts to wheedle his secret from him, and yet again to ask irritably why Tommy was not coming out to hear all about it. Then did Tommy desert Elspeth, and on the stair Shovel showed him a yellow card with this printed on it: "S.R.J.C.—Supper Ticket;" and written beneath, in a lady's ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... She was so 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 was ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... hardly half an hour had passed before he became aware that his sanctum was altogether uninhabitable. Bitterly he faced the knowledge that he must fare forth into the outer world of the dining-room that night; irritably he gathered up his ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... 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 absorbed ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... his sister from him, saying, irritably, "Why do you worrit me with questions? My ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... that three times," I cry, irritably. "You seem to take a pleasure in saying it. If they ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... 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
... 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 ...
— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson
... said Hawker again, and very irritably. "How in the wide world do you expect me to like him as well as you ...
— The Third Violet • Stephen Crane
... 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
... talk, will you?" said Captain irritably. "Of course, one man can't haul an outfit that far, but two can, so I'm going to take Klusky with me." He spoke with finality, and the Jew started, gazing queerly. "We'll go light, and drive ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach
... don't know him, I give up," said the clerk, irritably, "but he looks as if he ought to be somebody. ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... young soldier, irritably. "I am not going to disturb the prisoners again. I have just been compelled to wake them up-they were sure we were going to massacre them.... Most of the yunkers have been released anyway, and the rest will go out ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed
... of such a bother!" said the young man irritably. "Mother knows that I'd carry the trunks up on Bald-Top before I'd let her touch them. That's the way it will always be with these city people, I suppose. Everybody must jump and run the moment they speak. Father's right, and we'll have to give ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe
... going to hurt either you or your mother if you'll be sensible," he said irritably, for, unreasonably enough, the extreme fear she showed and her pleading tones annoyed him. He had a feeling that he would like to shake her, it was so absurd of her to look at him as though she expected him to gobble her up ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... irritably. "But it will be difficult for me to please one woman while thinking of another. Ah, Karl, I am growing tired of this Burgundian dream. Dream? It is almost ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... a 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 ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... to the window and was gazing out at the sinking flames. "Say, ain't we pardners?" he queried irritably. "You said we was when you brung me up here. And pardners stick, don't they? I reckon if it was my shack that was gittin' rushed, you 'd stick, and not go bellyin' under the bunk and hidin' like ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... 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 ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... the uncle said irritably. "You should hear what your mother would say to that. The idea of having a Wallerstaetten for a guest and offering him a bed which has been used already. That would seem a real crime in her eyes. That can't be; no, it mustn't. I hope you can ...
— Maezli - A Story of the Swiss Valleys • Johanna Spyri
... Mr. Green irritably. "We want to make him disgorge first, don't we? Just keep your head on, Cross. Let ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... said Sir Beverley, jerking himself irritably from him. "I detest being pawed about, as you very well know. In Heaven's name, have your tea, if you want it! I shan't touch any. It's past ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... 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 ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... the little, armored man irritably. "I cannot bide here forever. Make up thy mind; it be nothing to me other than my revenge, and if thou wilst not do it, I shall hire the necessary ruffians and then not even thou shalt see Bertrade ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... scarcely convalescent when Richard drew in his forces, he had been left in command of Pontefract in place of Sir Robert Wallingford, who went with the King. But lately his strength was coming back to him with swift pulsations and he was growing irritably impatient of his forced inactivity and of the obligation of office which held him stagnant while his sovereign rode to the wars. For as yet, no news had reached this distant section of the actual happenings in the South and the ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... wondered what made her do so. Poor Sarah was being made to feel all round what a poor sort of daughter she was, and she felt irritably that it was only since Horatia came that this fact had been obvious. But Sarah was wrong. Her attitude towards her parents had always been noticeable, and her brother and mother had constantly upbraided her with it; but ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin
... I do need 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 ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... 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 ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... her, and she said, a little irritably: "What should you do then, if you married?—Hush, Streffy! I forbid you to shout like that—all the gondolas are stopping ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... my eyesight. That's why they called me, I expect. None of them was quick enough to see her go, but they saw that she was gone right enough, and sang out together—like this." . . . A wolfish howl searched the very recesses of my soul. "Oh! make 'im dry up," whined the accident case irritably. "You don't believe me, I suppose," went on the other, with an air of ineffable conceit. "I tell you there are no such eyes as mine this side of the Persian Gulf. ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... 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 ...
— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace
... a young Indian woman, indicating a great jar of water. She quickly filled one of those quaint bowls, or cups, of the Cherokee manufacture, and advanced with it to Otasite; but the proffer was in the nature of an interruption of his troubled thoughts, and he irritably waved her away. ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock
... 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 ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... be sincere," he said, rather irritably, "and what seems right to one often seems wrong to another. I've been careless, I admit, and perhaps a little wicked, but don't condemn me utterly, Miss Marvin. Why not ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... get information from," Jim burst out irritably. "Tell us about it. You ain't goin' to lose ...
— When God Laughs and Other Stories • Jack London
... have been 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 ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... it doesn't matter. If my hour's come, it's come, I suppose, and that's the end of it,' he retorted irritably. 'How ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... the stranger irritably. "Let me alone. I've got a lot to say." She turned her eyes on Buntingford. "Do you want to ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... never thought it had a market value. I told you so in the beginning," I said, irritably. "But what on earth have you ...
— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung
... all here?" Hunterleys demanded, irritably. "Is there anything wrong with my appearance? ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... ever since Mitya's visit, and had a presentiment that she would not get through the night without the sick headache which always, with her, followed such excitement. She was surprised on hearing the announcement from the maid. She irritably declined to see him, however, though the unexpected visit at such an hour, of an "official living in the town," who was a total stranger, roused her feminine curiosity intensely. But this time Pyotr Ilyitch was as ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... work, he is confronted with a difficult problem covering strains or stress in a beam or lever or connecting-rod, he will attack it eagerly, instead of—as I have seen such problems attacked more than once—irritably and ...
— Opportunities in Engineering • Charles M. Horton
... me the manuscript of Searles's play, and I fell upon it irritably and began reading the first act. The dialogue moved briskly, and I read on as though enfolded in the air of a crisp spring morning. It was Searles's whimsical stroke, only with a better vehicle than he had ever before found for it. My grouch ...
— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson
... deceiving yourself with any such ideers," said the hairdresser, irritably. "I shan't do no such thing, so you needn't think it. And, to come to the point, how long do you mean to carry ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey
... 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 ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison
... 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
... 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 ...
— Irish Fairy Tales • James Stephens
... of something like sleep-walking as the soldiers led her through branching corridors to this room, and fetched for her attendant the only woman available, a wench they had taken from trencher-washing in the royal kitchen. She remembered irritably rejecting the woman's clumsy services and sending her to sleep on her pallet, while she herself walked to and fro with her surging thoughts until sheer physical exhaustion forced her to throw herself upon the bed. After that ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... 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 ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... le duc?" answered Philip. "A fanatic like all the Vaufontaines—a roysterer yesterday, a sainted chevalier to-morrow," said the Duke irritably. "But they still have strength and beauty—always!" he added reluctantly. Then he looked at the strong and comely frame before him, and was reassured. He laid a hand on Philip's broad shoulder, ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... 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, ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... asked Fridolina, who was tired and sleepy. "If ever I marry it must be a man who will let me sing Isolde. Most foreign husbands hide their wives away like a dog its bone." She beamed on Wenceslaus. "Then you will never marry a foreign husband," returned the sculptor, irritably. ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... paying a 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 ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... the Major, 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
... I answered irritably, "that battery's making such a noise that I can't hear anything ...
— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole
... 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
... cried the old officer, flashing out once more irritably. "This is not a public dinner, and I have given you ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn
... said Mr. Harland, irritably. "What's the use of gaining anything if it is to be lost ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... 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
... suddenly changed color, and she frowned irritably. Nancy sat down on the foot of the bed and took the sick woman's hand in ...
— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer
... that way, Betty?" Grace said irritably. "The man ought to be the best judge of whether he killed ...
— The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle - Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run • Laura Lee Hope
... told you before," he retorted irritably, "that you should attach no more importance to the substance of these delirious wanderings than you would to the ravings of madness. It is the fact of the delirium itself which must alarm us. She is less and less able ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... a-here," he demanded one afternoon, irritably. "Wasn't there ANYBODY else down to Boston but ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... that Malcourt was usually at her heels," he said almost irritably. It was the second time he had heard that comment, and he ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers
... Proprietor uncrossed and recrossed his legs irritably. "Come, come, Vigoureux, this will hardly do. Will it, now? I put it to you as a man of the world. No doubt it's all innocent enough, but folks will talk. And, after all, I'm responsible for any—er—scandal ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch |
