"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... admitted irritably. "Do you think I can't see where I'm drifting? The trouble is that I've gone too ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... 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 will ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... said Rose irritably; 'anything that has two legs and is ill, that is all Catherine wants to make ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... protested 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. ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... 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
... lately about Jud Clark being alive is dead wrong," he declared, irritably. "Maggie Donaldson was crazy. You can ask the people here about her. They all know it. Those newspaper fellows descended on us here with a tooth-brush apiece and a suitcase full of liquor, and thought they'd get something. Seemed to think we'd hold out on them unless we got ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... 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 transcript ...
— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams
... put your apron up there?" asked Phronsie in gentle reproach "An old gentleman in my room," repeated Jasper, turning on the stairs "Good-morning," said Mr. Marlowe; "business all right?" "How you can sit there and laugh when Joe is in danger, I don't see," exclaimed Percy irritably. "Well, now I have two babies," said Mother Fisher "I've always found," said Dr. Fisher, "that all you had to do to start a thing, was to begin" "Phronsie, get a glass of water; be quick, child!" "I think it was a mean shame!" began Dick wrathfully ...
— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... 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 which they took ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... tell them on the mere chance that they would send you home," I grumbled irritably. "You have no business here, you know, helping people and being suspected and pursued and outrageously annoyed by fools like me. Yes, and by other fools—and worse," I added with feigned sulphurousness, indicated Van Blarcom. "Miss Falconer, would ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... Lucille. "And the sentence, if I had anything to do with it, would be transportation for life." She peeled off her gloves irritably. "What fools men are! Not you, precious! You're the only man in the world that isn't, it seems to me. You did marry a nice girl, didn't you? YOU didn't go running round after females with crimson hair, goggling at them with your ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... 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 ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 24, 1891. • Various
... Bordman irritably strapped himself in. He saw Aletha busy at the same task, her eyes shining. Without warning, there came a sensation of acute discomfort. It was the landing boat detaching itself from the ship and the diminishment ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... said 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
... yards from that gate, its horn blatted irritably at the car of the acting head of municipal police. That car obediently ...
— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster
... 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 ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... agree, and you will not succeed in converting me to your faith," Ivan Dmitritch was saying irritably; "you are utterly ignorant of reality, and you have never known suffering, but have only like a leech fed beside the sufferings of others, while I have been in continual suffering from the day of my birth till to-day. For that reason, I tell you frankly, ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... be questioned at all," replied Noel Vanstone, irritably. "I have only got to say I am tired of Aldborough; and, if she believes me—which she won't; I'm quite positive, Mr. Bygrave, she won't!—she will have her suggestion ready before ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... privacy at all?" demanded the Governor irritably as the orderly again tapped at the open door and announced another visitor. "Who is he and what does ...
— John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish - 1901 • Louis Becke
... 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 ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... "Tuesday evening he showed her how he upset a man once and stood him on his head," he said, irritably. "I was what he showed ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs
... nervous shock, and is utterly prostrated, so that not even the arrival of his fair young wife enables him to pull himself together. When she speaks to him, he is unmoved. When she tries to touch him, he draws irritably away. She suffers, and cannot understand his enmity. The other woman takes the lead in the conversation. She is a Frau Major, a major's wife, who spends all her time at the hospital and has acquired there "a peculiar, garrulous cold-bloodedness." ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland
... 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 ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... then, Homer? We can't hold him till Christmas. Soon as we let him go, he'll trot back an' tell all he knows," protested his brother irritably. ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... its induction into the 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 have, on the one hand, found themselves ...
— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen
... 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 police court ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... He thrust his sister from him, saying, irritably, "Why do you worrit me with questions? My arm wants ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... I can tell you," he said irritably, "to be as weak as a day-old baby, and to have to ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... 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 ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... out with her bundle. It was an early November evening, chilly, a mist in the air. After their day in the enervating furnace heat the breeze seemed biting, and the garage roof was perilously slippery. Mother slid and balanced and slid on the roof, irritably observing, "I declare to goodness I never thought that at my time of life I'd have to sneak out of a window on to a nasty slippery shed-roof, like a thief in the night, when I wanted ...
— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis
... are," said I irritably, "but if you have a spark of human sympathy, you will give me what ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... 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
... that lesson?" asked the factor irritably, sipping his tea. The shots had reached his ears, and the swift departure of the rescuers had been ...
— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams
... replied Bince irritably, "I just wanted him to get away for his own sake. Of course, it don't mean ...
— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... He looked closer. The letters were very faintly and badly cut. He could only make out the first three of them; and even of those he was not quite certain. They looked like C L A—if they looked like anything. He threw down the strip of wood irritably. ...
— The Frozen Deep • Wilkie Collins
... pulse. It was beating quickly and feebly. I asked him one or two questions, but he would not answer, and when I pressed him he turned his face irritably to the wall. The only thing was to wait in silence. In ten minutes Stroeve, panting, came back. Besides what I had suggested, he brought candles, and meat-juice, and a spirit-lamp. He was a practical little fellow, and without delay set about making bread-and-milk. ...
— The Moon and Sixpence • W. Somerset Maugham
... quietly together: it struck eight. Gellert started up, and cried irritably: "There, now, you have allowed me to forget that I must be on my way ...
— Christian Gellert's Last Christmas - From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation • Berthold Auerbach
... I'd better see him and get it over," his Chief declared irritably. "If only one could make these people realize how far behind the ...
— The Great Prince Shan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... King, turning irritably to his companion, "what shall I do to this intractable old man? You have a voice in this, seeing that he has spoilt four ...
— The Blue Pavilions • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... beasts, and Nekhludoff was just telling me about such an action!" irritably retorted Kryltzoff, and went on to say how Makar was risking his life to save a fellow-villager. "That is not the action of a beast, ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... of country carts moved slowly by. One or two stopped before the shop, and the carters offered vegetables for sale. The old woman would have nothing to say to them, but waved them on irritably. Three had thus stopped and again proceeded, and an impatient grumble broke from the old lady as a fourth, a covered wagon, drew up ...
— Rupert of Hentzau - From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim: The Sequel to - The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope
... it?' he said, irritably. 'I'm a ruined man. I can't paint any more—or, at any rate, the world doesn't care a ha'p'orth what I paint. I should be a bankrupt—but ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... ain't in a restaurant waiting for a meal," the little fat man reminded one of his tools irritably. Then, as he caught sight of Steve, "What ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine
... 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 committees ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... he's not expected to live," said Mr. Briggerland. He rubbed his bald head irritably. "I wonder if that lunatic is ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... things matter, too," interrupted the man irritably. "Right here and now it matters that you don't share in the money; it matters that you slave half your time for a father who doesn't anywhere near appreciate you; it matters that you slave the rest of the time for every Tom and Dick and Harry and Jane and Mehitable in Hillerton ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... 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 had to appear ...
— The Chautauqua Girls At Home • Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden
... to my hoss!" cried Calvin irritably. "Hear him hollerin'? Jest wait a half a minute—" he sneaked out of the door, closed it carefully behind him, and bolted for his sleigh. He snatched the nose-bag from Hossy's nose, the robe from his back; clambering hastily in, he cast a guilty glance around him, and saw—Mittie May, ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards
... for five minutes?" she asked rather irritably, for she was tired after the long day's trip. "Just when I'm beginning to ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler
... all 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 lack ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... 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
... half irritably, "you don't suppose I could have a gallery for nothing, do you? God knows what it would cost. Besides, I haven't enough pictures—and think of the frames!" He ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... 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 your red tie, ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... and the drink spilled. He swore irritably, put down the glass, and plied his handkerchief vigorously. A moment later he was standing up and pouring the drink out afresh, from the bottle in one hand to the glass in the other. He ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various
... 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
... 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 ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine
... 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 been captured by ...
— Tarzan the Untamed • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... the busybody's 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 ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... 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, ...
— The Silent Places • Stewart Edward White
... guess," he told himself irritably. "Why the dickens didn't I have the sense and nerve to ride over and ask her straight out if she was coming? I coulda drove her over, maybe—if she'd come with me. I coulda took the bay team and top-buggy, and done the thing right. I coulda—hell, there's ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower
... meet me until—" he repeated after her; then his face changed. "Billy, you aren't—you can't be laying up last night against me!" he reproached her a little irritably. ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... woman was irritably suspicious that he found her anger amusing, just as he seemed to find the dangerous position in which he was placed. Yet her resentment coexisted with a sympathy for him that would not down. She believed he was marked for death by a ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... inevitable glory of morning rainbow that just preceded Procyon's rising and strode irritably down to his miniature dock. He was still scowling over what he should tell Charlie Mack when the Island Queen hove ...
— Traders Risk • Roger Dee
... no!" said Jeffrey irritably. "I only want to know the state of things here. So I can ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... the color of an autumn sunset. He was a modest young man, and these barefaced confessions made him wince. He was about to interpose irritably when Jennings turned on him with a leading question. "Why did you ...
— The Secret Passage • Fergus Hume
... somewhat irritably, as he touched Ethel's forehead with his lips, "that you would not make your room quite so much like a ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... two white men and the white girl who had heard the conclusion of his 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
... on earth would be the good of that? This confounded spring won't work," said Lupin, irritably pushing the moulding of ...
— The Blonde Lady - Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsne Lupin and the English Detective • Maurice Leblanc
... 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. Look under ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... know I have one?" Brenton asked rather irritably, for Whittenden's attitude was distinctly less satisfying to him than it ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... amended 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
... be murder," muttered Constans, irritably, and lowered his hand. Then, moved by sudden impulse, he took aim anew and with more than ordinary care. The arrow sung through the air and transfixed the fleshy part of the cavalier's bridle-arm. The horse, whose withers ...
— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen
... as she tugged at the check-rein on 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 ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... 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
... I cried irritably. "I am in need of some supper, and a bed. You don't suppose I want to walk ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... Mademoiselle Bourienne's ribbon, Princess Mary's unbecoming coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne's and Anatole's smiles, and the loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. "Got herself up like a fool!" he thought, looking irritably at her. "She is ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... we know 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 ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn
... Mephistopheles of Russia!" Nejdanov exclaimed irritably. "I am not in the mood for fencing with blunt ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev
... Gordon irritably. "The main point is: the girl must not be even seen by that man. That is the trouble. Driving, she might be perfectly safe; in fact, in one way she is safe anyhow. She is not in any danger of bodily harm, as you may think, but I don't ...
— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
... he thought, and at the very last, he changed his tactics and devoted himself to the heiress with an assiduity which left her little doubt of his intentions. Still, to her he did not speak, though to his mother he said, half irritably, as if it were something wrung from him ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... try!" 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! ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... said the Magician, irritably. "You're only an annoyance, anyhow, and I'm glad to ...
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... me like that," she exclaimed irritably. "You must hear the truth sometimes. And now, please remember that I came to lunch with you to hear about ...
— The Yellow Crayon • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... his hat from the old mahogany rack. "I've nothing to ride," he replied irritably, "and I don't choose to ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... globe, sir," says Mr. BUMSTEAD, irritably. "The great spherical foundation, sir, upon which ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870 • Various
... mean by that, Valerie?' exclaimed Isolde irritably. 'You are in one of your incomprehensible moods to-day. What do you ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
... intervals which she crushed and let fall. Something of the girl's character seemed to be in the action. She was not weary, not worn out with the day's work or pleasure, whichever it might have been, but was waiting anxiously, irritably even, for news, or for someone's coming. Her hair had loosened by contact with the cushions, and fell about her shoulders in luxuriant copper-colored tresses. Presently the door opened, and an elderly woman entered—an English ...
— Princess Maritza • Percy Brebner
... of his pipe irritably, while Spike, full of excellent intentions, sat on the edge of his chair, drawing sorrowfully at his cigar and wondering what he had done to ...
— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse
... that." 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 care ...
— The Romantic • May Sinclair
... did you 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 ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... Jim 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 ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... of town," he said irritably. "Besides, he wouldn't see you until you had told me your business anyway. What do you think he keeps a ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse
... 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 ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... idjot!" snapped Smith irritably. His glance was full of malevolence as Babe took his guns. The yellow of his skin was now the only sign by which he betrayed his feelings. To all other appearances, he was himself ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... out if he could help it, and all work and play were at a standstill. Arithelli was sitting, as was her custom, absorbed in her own thoughts and dreams. For a moment she stared with uncomprehending eyes. She felt tired, she wanted to be alone, and she had not heard a single word. Emile shrugged irritably ...
— The Hippodrome • Rachel Hayward
... night of dreamless slumber, while a prowling lion moaned and coughed beneath him, and in far-off England the other Lord Greystoke, with the assistance of a valet, disrobed and crawled between spotless sheets, swearing irritably as a cat meowed beneath ...
— Jungle Tales of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... keep these," he said irritably. "You don't seem to take much interest in the fact that you have laid yourself open to a charge of fraud, and that I am going to do something about it if ...
— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... in the least," said the old woman irritably, settling back with a grim expression on her face. "Now if you will take my advice and get started, young man, I would be very much obliged ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... 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
... of insight disconcerted 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
... what I said," persisted the Traveling Salesman almost irritably. "Follow you 'anywheres'! Run! Walk! Crawl on her hands and knees if it's really necessary. And yet—" Like a shaggy brown line drawn across the bottom of a column of figures, his eyebrows narrowed to their final calculation. "And ...
— The Indiscreet Letter • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... 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 ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... 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
... goin' right ahead," he said irritably. "Think I'm a quitter? Think I'm goin' to lie ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine
... irritably. "I'd counted on being married this fall. I simply can't wait two years, and that is all there is about it." Elizabeth argued easily at first, certain that it could be readily arranged, but John became more and more positive. At last ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... 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 with ...
— The Adventures of Bobby Orde • Stewart Edward White
... patient, can't you?" irritably retorted the other. "Money doesn't grow on trees. Now listen, Hank. How would you like to get a nice little sum of money—more than I could give you—for camping out on Kidd's Island, in the Upper Inlet, for a ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... busily engaged she could not spare that poor creature a moment or so?" he inquired, irritably. "Where is she?" ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... would 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 that would ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... 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
... his tone that this forgetfulness was an affectation. "You know very well what her name is," said he irritably. "What ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... though Dave Cowan could perform ably upon the instrument while it retained its health he was at a loss when it developed ailments; and to these it was prone, being a machine of temperament and airs, inclined to lose spirit, to sulk, even irritably to refuse all response to Dave's fingering of the keyboard. Dave was sincerely startled when his son one day skillfully restored tone to the thing after it had disconcertingly rebelled. Sam Pickering, on the point of wiring for the mechanic who ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... in his teens, in the victoria which Anthony considered the proper vehicle for Sunday afternoons. The farmhouse was in a hollow, but always on those excursions Anthony, fastidiously dressed, picking his way half-irritably through briars and cornfields, would go to the edge of the cliffs and stand there, looking down. Below was the muddy river, sluggish always, but a thing of terror in spring freshets. And across was the east side, already ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... man, this was a good enough ladder, and the inspector withdrew his head shrugging his square shoulders, irritably. ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... be 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
... 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
... come out well, my boy," said Sir Edward irritably. "The young cub has some good in him, and he ...
— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn
... 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 yer wantin' ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... 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
... 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 ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... to hear any more of such botheration," retorted Fred, irritably; and springing up from his seat, made his exit abruptly, leaving Clara to sigh out alone the sorrows of her heart in the solitude of her ...
— The Black-Sealed Letter - Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. • Andrew Learmont Spedon
... nervous tension. "A disturber," he said irritably, "even in his going. And yet, I suppose it's true; we shouldn't be sitting here comfortably to-night if it hadn't ...
— The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel • Coningsby Dawson
... last one, on the rise that led to the Carver cabin, Jerry stopped the car. They looked at one another. Watson rubbed his face irritably. "I'm beat, Jerry. There's somethin' here I can't get my hands nor ...
— The Invaders • Benjamin Ferris
... be good enough to examine this witness," he said a little irritably. "These irregular interruptions! But let her say what ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... bard to get information from," Jim burst out irritably. "Tell us about it. You ain't goin' to lose ...
— Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories - Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews • Jack London
... rugs," interrupted Cyril, irritably. "I want them everywhere except in my own especial den. You don't suppose I want to hear other people clattering over bare ...
— Miss Billy's Decision • Eleanor H. Porter
... "Great Scott!" said 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 ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... don't we? Weaver thought irritably. He had been forced to wear either a breathing mask or a pressure suit all the time he had been on the Moon, except when he had been in his own sealed room at the sanatorium. And his post-nasal drip was unmistakably maturing into a cold; he had been ...
— The Worshippers • Damon Francis Knight
... Sir Charles laughed irritably. 'He keeps it up, does he? But he sits people out openly, that shows he's not really dangerous. One doesn't worry about Hazel. It's that young man who arrives when everybody's going, or goes before anyone else arrives, that's what I'm a little ...
— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson
... the old man, irritably. "Bless ye! of course I'm goin' to meetin'. I'll set by myself, though! Yes, I will! Las' Sunday, I set with Jont Marshall, an' every time I sung a note, he dug into me with his elbow, till I thought I should ha' fell out the pew-door. My voice is jest as good as ever 'twas, ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown
... 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
... 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 ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... the hearth, and stood there, beating his leg irritably with his riding-whip. There was a heavy frown on his face. He did not once raise his eyes to the picture above him. He was still thinking of Lady Emberdale and the Admiral. Finally, with a sudden idea of refreshing himself, he wheeled towards the table. The next instant, ...
— The Tidal Wave and Other Stories • Ethel May Dell
... ingenuous smile. It was a wistful smile—not a happy one—but it seemed, somehow, to illumine the office. Maxwell reflected irritably that there was something unusually likable about the fellow, but he wished he'd hurry up and get out. From force of habit his fingers grasped a blue pencil on his desk, and he began to fumble nervously among the manuscripts that lay before him. Harrington settled ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... other oath?" O'Reilly broke out, irritably. "I've always considered 'bullets' weak and ineffective, but—it has ...
— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach
... corrals, red-lidded caballeros cursed irritably the horses they saddled. In the patio Don Andres gave dignified adieu to the guests that still lingered. The harp was shrouded and dumb upon the platform, the oaken floor polished and dark with the night-long slide of slippered feet. The fiesta was slipping out of the present into the ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... 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 put ...
— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty
... now," I said, irritably; "the old man is out there selling tickets with both hands, while little Griggs counts receipts in a stage whisper. Let him alone, Speed; I'm going to give it up soon, anyway—not now—not while the governor has a chance to make a little money; ...
— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
... you what, Raguet," said Peters irritably, "I've got to get some jam somewhere or I shall kick the bucket. I'm craving for it, man. If I had one can of the stuff it would put me upon my feet instantly, I can feel it. Now it's ten to one I'll be too sick to see the king after the ceremonies are over, ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... 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 ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... don't you gie the lad a licking, and make him mind the sheep better? I saw him last Saturday playing sogers down at Thirlston with a score or more of idle lads like himsel'." The old man spoke irritably, and looked round for the culprit. "I'll lay thee a penny he's at the same game now. Gie him a licking when he ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... Lulie, 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
... ungraciously. "Don't touch me, Phyllis!" he said irritably. "Wallis! You can wheel ...
— The Rose Garden Husband • Margaret Widdemer
... in surprise from the fresh slightly wounded case he was overhauling. 'Hopeless? Why, it's not even—— Oh! him? Yes, I'm afraid so. . . . I wish Macgillivray would come back,' he went on irritably. 'He's worth the three of us here put together. Where we have to fiddle and probe and peer he would just look—just half-shut those hawk eyes of his and look, and he'd know exactly what to do and what not to ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable
... ass, Bones!" said Sanders irritably. "Your job is to make these beggars work. They'll simply sit and die unless you start them on drainage work. Cut a few ditches with a fall to the river; kick Ranabini for me; take up a few kilos of quinine and ...
— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace
... poppycock," exclaimed Compton, rather more irritably than was usual with him. "For some reason Harold has taken an unwarranted dislike to this man, but I am watching him closely, and I will see that no very serious ...
— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... 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 ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... camp-life," Ruth said, irritably. "I am not so much a baby as to care about those things to such a degree that I can't endure them, though everything is disagreeable enough; but that ...
— Four Girls at Chautauqua • Pansy
... such an infernal row in the street," said Galli, irritably. "Is that window shut, Riccardo? One can't hear ...
— The Gadfly • E. L. Voynich
... he became aware of Sally, who had appeared over the fold of the rise behind them, and asked irritably: ...
— Benita, An African Romance • H. Rider Haggard
... the devil is it?" he said irritably. "I haven't any time to waste over you. What do ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... you make me nervous," rebuked Margery irritably. "Isn't it hard enough to climb this skating rink without ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge |
