"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... then; just as you choose," Mrs. Mencke returned, irritably, and suddenly swept from the room, ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... said Jeffrey irritably. "I only want to know the state of things here. So I can tell ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... irritably)—"I already have a system by which I can save 100 per cent of my time and yours. I'll demonstrate ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... 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; ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... was working irritably. "I haven't asked you to assume any responsibility, Mr. Ford. If the track is safe for your material trains, it is safe enough for my car. But I didn't send for you to argue the point. I desire to have the Nadia ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
... 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 bloodless collapse ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... was blinding me," Lanyard affirmed irritably. "Besides, I wasn't looking—except at my ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... Haven't you heard the tale that Rumpel tells after his escape? How the senior native officer came to his Belgian commander and complained that they had no food, the villages were empty, not so much as an egg or chicken to be got. Irritably, the Belgian officer shouted that the soldiers knew that no one had food, and they must wait till they got to the next post on the morrow. 'But,' urged the native sergeant softly, 'there are the prisoners.' ...
— Sketches of the East Africa Campaign • Robert Valentine Dolbey
... come to speak to you?" Mr Ffolliot demanded, irritably. "You must see that the matter ...
— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker
... said Lorraine, somewhat irritably, "but you had better be careful how you air your Northern ...
— Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted • Frances E.W. Harper
... 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 ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer
... 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 we will all be in. But you must be mistaken! I cannot ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... all that he was looking out of the taxi window with an angry and worried face, his attention irritably concentrated, so it seemed, on the objects passing in the road, very well knew he was being observed. He wouldn't, however, allow his eye to be caught. He wasn't going to become entangled at this juncture in argument with the Annas. He was hastily making up his mind, and there wasn't much ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
... 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
... care what becomes of them," Velo said irritably. "I'm water-soaked. I feel queer. I'll never get out ...
— Shelled by an Unseen Foe • James Fiske
... sort of watch, eh?' he continued irritably: '—when you know that I never missed a day. . . . I tell you, Foe, that, after this, we'll have to come to a reckoning. One or other has to be master on this island, and it ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... proved to be entangled for the moment in the skirt of her dress. In irritably trying to disengage it, she threw out the key on the floor. Jack picked the key up and noticed the inscription on the handle. "Pink-Room Cupboard," he read. "Why do they call it by ...
— Jezebel • Wilkie Collins
... took her paper up irritably. "Goodness! Is that all." She also listened, then added: "What nonsense you talk, Ethel! There is not a sound. They have ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... 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
... He spoke almost irritably, like a man whose nerves were tired. But Charmian did not seem to notice it. She looked bright, resolute, dominant, as she replied ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... to him!" Mr. Blumentein declared irritably. "We have nothing to conceal here! All that we desire is to be left alone by guests whose conduct about the place is discreditable. ...
— The Great Secret • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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 ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... again. The captain interrupted her. "Be still," he ordered, irritably. "Marietta, you set over here by the melodeon. That'll be about right ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... 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. ...
— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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
... through some mail that lay piled on his table. He was not in a happy humor. The business here had dragged out to the annoying length of six weeks and his mind was busy with anxiety centering on the hills. But as his thoughts ran irritably along, the hand that had lifted an envelope out of the collection became rigid. It was a very plain envelope and quite unaccountably it was postmarked from the station near the ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... dear! Have a little respect. You must never do that again!" cried Miss Briskett, irritably, but the girl showed not the faintest sign ...
— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... 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 flew ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... the mother said, irritably, "I wish to goodness you wouldn't run out after dinner. Where have ...
— Stories by English Authors: The Sea • Various
... thrill to Delia. She was only irritably conscious of the uncouthness of his large cadaverous face, and straggling fair hair; of his ragged ulster, his loosened tie, and all the other untidy details of his dress. "And I shall have to go on meeting him!" she thought, with repulsion. "And at the end ...
— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the King irritably, "where is the benefit to us of journalists who describe State functions as though they were jewelers' touts and dressmakers rolled into one? The vulgarity of people's present notion of what makes monarchy impressive is appalling. Listen to this, my dear! This is you and me ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman
... parallel," answered 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. I call it irreverent, and I'm ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton
... me!" cried Wacker irritably—"don't you let him," he blared out to the quacking magnate. "I won't say a word. Let Harrington do as he pleases. He's the king bee! Only, just this, Harrington, you take care of me or ...
— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman
... ... 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 tortured animals.... ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... "Get out!" very irritably, and the speaker turned sharply over with his face to the stones and his back to the bright sunshine that came ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... Fairy 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 ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... And the excitement and the unease began to wear through Alvina's rather glamorous fussiness. Some of her old fretfulness came back on her. Her spirit, which had been as if asleep these months, now woke rather irritably, and chafed against its collar. Who was this elderly man, that she should marry him? Who was he, that she should be kissed by him. Actually kissed and fondled by him! Repulsive. She avoided him like the plague. Fancy reposing against his broad, navy blue waistcoat! She started as if ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... 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 ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... want to lick you," said Don irritably, "but I mean to get that train. You'd better either give up that key or stand out ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour
... 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 her. I know ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... was almost unendurable. The heavy breathing of Inspector Murdy seemed like the blowing of a grampus. Mr. Gray glanced across at him irritably. The vicar coughed slightly, then looked startled that he had made ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... handsome, then," was her next thought, as she again dropped her eyes before his. But all good-looking men were called handsome, and that term, too, displeased her. But whatever it was, he was good to see, and she was irritably aware of a desire to look at him again ...
— The Game • Jack London
... he showed her how he upset a man once and stood him on his head," he said, irritably. "I was ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs
... it like that,' he said almost irritably. 'The decision rests with you, of course. Of course we want men now and want them badly. Yet I wouldn't press my recruiting needs just now. It doesn't seem to me the right time to do so. Afterwards. . . ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps
... Romilly," he declared irritably, "the other one, I mean, seems to have had the vilest tastes. If I am to be landed with any more of his ridiculous indiscretions, I think I shall have to go overboard. There was an enterprising gentleman named Gayes in Liverpool, who nearly ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... busily engaged she could not spare that poor creature a moment or so?" he inquired, irritably. ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... 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 mask for once." He came close to ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... ran 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
... irritably. "What is the matter with your police? In Rome, if I propose to find a man he is ...
— Caesar Dies • Talbot Mundy
... 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
... why don't you stop her doing it, then?" demanded Daniel Burton, still more irritably. "Go to HER, not me. ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter
... wasn't in any danger," said Luigi, irritably; "they wouldn't waste it for a little thing like that; there's a glass case all ready for it in the heavenly museum, and a pin to ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... eternally about himself and the mine, till a saint must have loathed the two of them; Thompson, the mine superintendent, silent, slow and stupid, playing ghastly solitaire games in a corner with a pack of dirty cards; and me, Nick Stretton, hunching myself irritably on a hard chair till I could decently go to bed. Even the bush was better than night after night of that,—and suddenly I felt my thoughts bursting out, even if I had sense enough to keep my ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... 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, ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... Burnett; "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
... herself. "Nothing is the matter," she replied, irritably, and immediately she became so gay that had Henry himself been in his usual mood he would have been as much astonished as by her depression. Sylvia began talking and laughing, relating long stories of new discoveries which she had made ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... said Mr. Cullen, irritably. "You might just as well have the pleasure, and you'll only disturb the ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... from the Cabinet that he should come to Brisbane and take a more important position. It was when this patronage was declined that the Premier (dropping for a moment into that bushman's jargon which came naturally to him) said, irritably, that Louis Bachelor was a "old fossil who didn't know when he'd got his dover in the dough," which, being interpreted into the slang of the old world, means, his knife into the official loaf. But the fossil went on as before, known ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... the grave that you are digging," cried the old man irritably. "You don't know the value of what you lose. For ...
— Friars and Filipinos - An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, - 'Noli Me Tangere.' • Jose Rizal
... concert of nations is an episode of recent history; so recent, indeed, that the German nation has not yet had time to live it down and let it be forgotten; and the Imperial State is consequently burdened with an irritably uneasy sense of odium and an established reputation for unduly bad faith. From which it has followed, among other things, that the statesmen of the Empire have lived in the expectation of having their unforgotten derelictions brought home, and so ...
— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen
... carry me into the garden," said Hester, rising with the others. "You must forgive me if I spoke irritably. I have ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley
... 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 ...
— The Other Likeness • James H. Schmitz
... name of goodness is Banks?" I inquired irritably. The petulant tone was merely an artifice. I realised that if I were meek, he would lose more time in abusing my apparent imbecility. I know that the one way to beat a bully is by bullying, but I hate even the pretence ...
— The Jervaise Comedy • J. D. Beresford
... irritably, "I just wanted him to get away for his own sake. Of course, it don't mean anything ...
— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... 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 a good whet ...
— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson
... globe, sir," says Mr. BUMSTEAD, irritably. "The great spherical foundation, sir, upon which Boston ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870 • Various
... artist who belongs here. A clever fellow. He has caught the expressions of these men wonderfully. His only failure, indeed, is that picture of myself." He regarded it with distaste, and a touch of asperity crept into his manner. "I don't know why the committee lets it stay there," he said, irritably. "It isn't a bit like." He recovered himself. "But all the others are excellent, excellent, though I believe many of the subjects are under the erroneous impression that they bear no resemblance to the originals. Here is the picture I wished to show ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse
... like a slave over that beastly old Fetich," Phil said irritably, "as if he was bound ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
... 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
... 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
... verdammt!" exclaimed zu Pfeiffer irritably and shouted: "Ho, Bakunja—la." Instantly appeared the tall negro in white. "You son of a god! ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... little boy," she said, irritably. "You make me tired. I don't feel like being badgered by anybody, and, besides, I'm not mortgaged ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... 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 ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... that wouldn't be wise," Geoffrey said irritably. He had never cared much for these inevitable aftermaths to battle, but it made him angry to have an inland barbarian make pointed comments. "I suppose it's different when ...
— The Barbarians • John Sentry
... beastly part of the conventions of this miserable world," he answered, irritably. "Here am I, strong, healthy and with more of its goods than I can use, and yet you can't accept from my surplus enough to tide you over a lean year or ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... Lady would have gone into the chapel then, but she was detained by Mr. Literal, who said irritably: "That march—you know it's really quite modern. ...
— Everychild - A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old • Louis Dodge
... got to to keep them out of hostile hands," said the second voice irritably. "I don't like the idea of carrying yellowbacks around in a satchel just to humor a lunatic. And he's had the nerve to write that he won't ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson
... 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 straw annoyed ...
— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse
... earth could he 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 ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World • Margaret Vandercook
... as that again," said Racey, irritably, "and you'll change somethin' besides yore mind. Don't be too trusting a jake, Bull, not too trusting. I might surprise you yet. About ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... of talk serves no good purpose," said Nuwell irritably. "The rebel movement has been broken now, and there's no point in thinking about the illegal things ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... "Well?" I said, irritably, vexed because of my bewilderment. "If you can't explain the situation there is no need to look at us. It beats anything I ever heard of or dreamed about. Have they all lost ...
— The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley • James Otis
... towards the wings. "Well, I was goin' to say it," he said irritably, "if you'd ...
— More William • Richmal Crompton
... have to, Ray. They're all so dumb. They've got no ambition," Thea exclaimed irritably. "Jenny Smiley is the only one who isn't stupid. She can read pretty well, and she has such good hands. But she don't care a rap about it. She has ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... settle down in my wagon. "I beg your pardon," I said irritably to Trenchard, "but your ...
— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole
... if he 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
... the four newly-projected Channel bridges, a nasty 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 ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 24, 1891. • Various
... 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 Poirot irritably. "You argue like a child. If Miss Howard were capable of poisoning the old lady, she would be quite equally capable of simulating devotion. No, we must look elsewhere. You are perfectly correct in your assumption that her vehemence ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie
... old Badge threatened him. He picked irritably at the fur on his gown and gazed at the carved leg of the table. 'If you will not induce Privy Seal to pull down his wall I will set ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... whisper," I answered irritably, "that battery's making such a noise that I can't ...
— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole
... 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, ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... committees and deputations and Heaven knows 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
... you mean?" said Mr. Bennett irritably. "Wilhelmina, this man says that you told him ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... arrangements he made, quietly taking all into his own hands, and wonderfully lessening a sort of fidget that Mrs. Curtis's anxiety had attached to all that was done for Rachel. It was not for nothing that he had spent a year upon the sofa in the irritably sensitive state of nerves that Bessie had described; and when he could speak to Grace alone, he gave her a lecture on those little refinements of unobtrusive care, that more demonstrative ailments had not ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge
... teeth suddenly, and struck his fist irritably on his knee. One such tale he had heard, told of the brutal Colonel Kirke, a woman's honour sacrificed to save her lover, and sacrificed in vain. He was prepared to believe any villainy of such a man, and there were many, little better than Kirke, ...
— The Brown Mask • Percy J. Brebner
... 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
... 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 ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... the Lord you'd let me!" growled Priming, irritably rubbing his head with the handle of ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... something else made her brother indignant. "What a scene about nothing," he said, irritably. "Why can't you let Flossy go to parties or not, as she pleases? Parties are not such delightful institutions that she need be expected to be in love with them. I should be delighted if I never ...
— The Chautauqua Girls At Home • Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden
... say so, nephew," he said irritably, "seeing that all white men's lives are of equal value, and I can smell no danger in ...
— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard
... it 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 months' time, you still desire ...
— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall
... 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 ...
— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White
... 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
... a-here," he demanded one afternoon, irritably. "Wasn't there ANYBODY else down to Boston ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... ghosts for five minutes?" she asked rather irritably, for she was tired after the long day's trip. "Just when I'm ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler
... matter with you all here?" Hunterleys demanded, irritably. "Is there anything wrong with my appearance? ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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
... readiness to listen and to confide and a love for the details of operations and illnesses in which she had a kinship with Mrs. Banks. Indeed, though Mrs. Batty was fat where Mrs. Banks was thin, cheerful where she was gloomy, and in possession of a flourishing husband where Mrs. Banks irritably mourned the loss of a suicide, they had characteristics in common and the chief of these was the way in ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... "Really!" he protested irritably, "you reporters butt in everywhere. No public man is safe. Is there no place we can go where you fellows won't ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... think not, with such an infernal row in the street," said Galli, irritably. "Is that window shut, Riccardo? One can't hear one's ...
— 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
... usually within that narrow circle disagreeably perfect, and therefore apt to be arrogant. People who can do all things, usually do every one of them ill; and living in a constant effort to deny this too palpable fact, they become irritably vain. But Mr. Lamb the elder seems to have been bent on perfection. He did all things; he did them all well; and yet was neither gloomily arrogant, nor testily vain. And being conscious apparently that all mechanic excellencies tend to illiberal ...
— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... 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. ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver
... right," said the stranger irritably. "Let me alone. I've got a lot to say." She turned her eyes on Buntingford. "Do you ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... this discussion, Fernando leaves the question of his father's parentage in all its original obscurity, yet appears irritably sensitive to any derogatory suggestions of others, his whole evidence tends to the conviction that he really knew nothing to boast of in ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving
... am perfectly well!" Raskolnikov declared positively and irritably. He raised himself on the sofa and looked at them with glittering eyes, but sank back on to the pillow at once and turned to the wall. Zossimov watched ...
— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... rather irritably. "You little fool, do you want to catch a chill as well—so's to make two invalids instead of one? ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... her go home, and stay there till she is better," said the Colonel, irritably. "A love lorn young lady perpetually before me I cannot and will ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... had 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
... an attempt to get up, was obviously worse, and though he insisted irritably that he would be all right again in a day or two ...
— Blake's Burden • Harold Bindloss
... 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 ...
— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams
... 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 ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... 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
... not," the young man said irritably. "But there is a way. It's been used before. Are you up on ...
— The Unnecessary Man • Gordon Randall Garrett
... 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 Hassan of Aleppo to be in England. Some other arrangement ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... and Whately there were increasing evidences of trouble, which the mother of the latter did her best to avert by remonstrances and entreaty. On one occasion Whately had said a little irritably, "I say, Dr. Ackley, what's the use of Maynard's hanging around here? He is almost ...
— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe
... 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 been ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... 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
... to be dummy often, this afternoon. They were playing for quarter cents, but even that low stake, Nancy thought irritably, ran up into a considerable sum, when one's partner bid as madly as young Mrs. Billings bid. She was doubled, and redoubled, and she lost and lost; Nancy saw Elsie's white hand, with its gold pencil, daintily ...
— Undertow • Kathleen Norris
... why do you ask?' replied Waring, irritably. 'But some things may be pardoned, I think, ...
— Castle Nowhere • Constance Fenimore Woolson
... 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 Europe was threatened ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... me," I said irritably. "If—if two isn't enough we can make several omelets, one ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... brief space 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. ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... sing something else?" said Compton, irritably, as the mournful wail dinned its misery into ...
— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville
... 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 him," said Mr. Bowles irritably, "I wrote so that he should get the letter by the ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... 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 a ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... was 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, ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... 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 little ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) • Edith Wharton
... tough, I can tell you," he said irritably, "to be as weak as a day-old baby, and to ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... mighty tired and I ain't particular how you look, so hurry up." As the two men returned for their loads the speaker went on, irritably. "She's got her nerve! I s'pose she's one of these actresses. There's a bunch of 'em on the trail. Actresses!" He snorted derisively. "I bet she smells of cologne, and, gosh! ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... 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 gold ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... he took 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
... not come out well, my boy," said Sir Edward irritably. "The young cub has some good in him, and ...
— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn
... then irritably took a hand-rail and hauled himself along it, with his legs trailing behind him like the tail of a swimming mermaid. He thought of the simile and was not impressed by his ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... else in this condemned burg can pull teeth?" he demanded irritably of the bartender at the ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... school together, and from the tone in which he spoke it is evident that they disliked each other there. No doubt he has heard from the Doctor that Forster is frequently in here," and the Major spoke rather irritably, for it seemed to him that Isobel showed more pleasure in the Captain's society than she should have done after what he had said to her about him; indeed, Isobel, especially when the Doctor was present, appeared by no means to object to ...
— Rujub, the Juggler • G. A. Henty
... done so," cried the Professor, irritably, "else there is no motive for the commission of the crime. But I think myself that we must start at the other end to find a clue. When we discover who placed the mummy in ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume
... only matter upon which one is seriously disposed to quarrel with Sir Sidney Colvin as a biographer. He does not emphasize as he ought the debt we are under to Fanny Brawne as the intensifier of Keats's genius—the "minx," as Keats irritably called her, who transformed him in a few months from a poet of still doubtful fame into a master and an immortal. The attachment, Sir Sidney thinks, was a misfortune for him, though he qualifies this by adding that "so probably under the circumstances must any passion for a woman have ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... said his lordship, irritably. "I don't ask you to spout politics. I ask you to show yourself to these people as a serious and thoughtful fellow, and not as a mere dauber of canvas and scraper of fiddles. You come here," he went on, irritated ...
— Aunt Rachel • David Christie Murray
... irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on ...
— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton |
