"Irritatingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my new coachman, there was something irritatingly familiar about him. He seemed to know me very well, too, and called me "Mis' Jardine" with a nod of the head as if we had formerly been pals. But under Bee's tutelage I was on terms of distant civility with my menials instead of knowing all their joys and ...
— At Home with the Jardines • Lilian Bell
... danced in front of the invalid; yapping and snapping up at the hanging head. The big mongrel, in agony, snarled and made a lunge at his irritatingly dancing tormentor. His teeth dug grazingly into the terrier's withers; and, with an impatient toss, he flung the little beast to one side. Then he continued his interrupted flight; sick wrath beginning to encompass his reeling brain, at the ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... the other drawled irritatingly, "I don't mind telling you that's something I ain't worked out for myself. I don't know how ...
— White Fang • Jack London
... 'Waterspin' adrift," I whispered, glaring at poor Toon, who stood steering the squat little barge, with an irritatingly complacent ...
— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson
... snow falling, and North-West-by-North wind howling, bitterly cold, and so," continued the Baron, "I was reduced to Zero. The construction of the plot is clever, as is also the description of a great fight, in the latter portion of the story; but, as a whole, the story is irritatingly ill-written, and tawdrily coloured, while italics are used to bring into prominence any description ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 • Various |
