"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Pfeiffer irritably and shouted: "Ho, Bakunja—la." Instantly appeared the tall negro in white. "You son of a god! ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... exclaimed irritably, "you are terribly exasperating. Do make up your mind that you and your million are not the ...
— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon
... best detective, Malone told himself irritably, needed clues of some kind. And this thing, whatever it was, was not playing fair. It didn't go around leaving bloody fingerprints or lipsticked cigarette butts or packets of paper matches with Ciro's, Hollywood, written on them. It didn't even have an alibi for anything that could ...
— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett
... letters: This way to Rome, he had been very angry, and threatened to prosecute the leaders of the Liberal party in Blackstable. He made up his mind now that nothing Josiah Graves said would induce him to remove the candlesticks from the altar, and he muttered Bismarck to himself once or twice irritably. ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... 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 ...
— The Invaders • Benjamin Ferris
... 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, I consider myself ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... irritably aware of a flood of color beating into her cheeks. "There isn't any other ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine
... 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 ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... money—not much, as all the serious expenses were looked after by the general, but still a little money. How could she get it? How could she remind him of his neglect without seeming to be indelicate? It was a difficult problem. She worked at it more and more continuously, and irritably, and nervously, as the days went by and her fifty-two francs dwindled ...
— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips
... you like,' said Ralph, irritably, 'but attend to me. This tale was originally fabricated as a means of annoyance against one who hurt your trade and half cudgelled you to death, and to enable you to obtain repossession of a half-dead drudge, whom you wished to regain, because, while you wreaked your vengeance ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... for one of 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 of the French ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 24, 1891. • Various
... amiable connection interjected irritably. "Don't talk like an idiot! You know they send you things because they've got to. You've been through it yourself. Must have cost you a pretty penny in your time sending out wedding presents! Now ...
— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... later in the afternoon, poorer by many dollars paid for rotten salmon. He wasn't in a particularly genial mood. The Sam Kaye affair had come at an inopportune moment. He didn't care to stand out as a bruiser. Still, he asked himself irritably, why should he care because Nelly Abbott and Betty Gower had seen him using his fists? He was perfectly justified. Indeed, he knew very well he could have done nothing else. The trailers had chortled over the outcome. These were matters they could understand and appreciate. ...
— Poor Man's Rock • 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 ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... 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
... listened. He tried for the twentieth time to judge his friend's eyes, to gain as best he could some sustained and unobserved glance at this baffling face. 'Where is your precious French book?' he said irritably. ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... hands irritably. "Words! Just words! How can they mean anything to a hard-headed man like me? Everything came out of a fire mist. How do you know it was a mind made that fire mist? Why couldn't it have been a—a—Christ, what could it have been?" Douglas paused with lips agape with horror as he gazed on the ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie
... course not," the young man said irritably. "But there is a way. It's been used before. Are ...
— The Unnecessary Man • Gordon Randall Garrett
... feverish," he replied irritably,—"I find this place hot as an oven. I think I should go away to-morrow if I had not asked the Princess Ziska to sit ...
— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli
... something more coming and did not give the "pull" for the curtain to come down. There was a horrid pause while it remained up, and then Mr. Buckstone, the Bob Acres of the cast, who was very deaf and had not heard the upward inflection, exclaimed loudly and irritably: "Eh! eh! What does this mean? Why the devil don't you bring down the curtain?" And he went on cursing until it did come down. This experience made me think more than ever of the advice of an old actor: "Never leave your stage effects ...
— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry
... 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 quietly ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... 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. ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... tops of the limes. Lavretsky got up and began to answer Panshin; an argument sprang up. Lavretsky championed the youth and the independence of Russia; he was ready to throw over himself and his generation, but he stood up for the new men, their convictions and desires. Panshin answered sharply and irritably. He maintained that the intelligent people ought to change everything, and was at last even brought to the point of forgetting his position as a kammer-yunker, and his career as an official, and calling Lavretsky an antiquated conservative, ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... Paresi said irritably, "For the reason one usually uses anesthox. To knock a patient out for a couple of hours without ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn
... 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
... look at my watch," irritably returned Hamish, who had spoken resentfully throughout, as if some great wrong were being inflicted upon him in having to ...
— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood
... happen to him when the William J. Mosely Estate is wound up? I've heard nothing else for two days. Not a word about the poor woman, who might as well have been a shadow on the wall of her house for all she meant to anybody until she died," she said, fanning herself and looking at him irritably. ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris
... 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 ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various
... have one?" Brenton asked rather irritably, for Whittenden's attitude was distinctly less satisfying to him than it had been ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... were doing," said Mrs. Milroy, more and more irritably. "Did your father tell you what Mr. Armadale's question was, ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... "that we have to decide between two darned slim chances, for they'll be coming back within an hour. We can stay here, or run for it! What do you think?" But as she remained silent, gazing across the prairie, I kept irritably on: "If it's run, we can't reach the forests north, south or east without being seen—and you know what a fight in the open means against such odds. We might hide in the grass and travel at night, but if ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... 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
... NED. [Irritably. Getting chair for her, seating her, and seating himself again.] Look here, Alice, I know your game. You invited me down here to make ...
— The Human Drift • Jack London
... 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 back ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach
... morning reader was new to Mr. Pole, who had undertaken it, when first Squire of Brookfield, at the dictate of the ladies his daughters; so that, waiting with the book before him and his audience expectant, he lacked composure, spoke irritably in an under-breath of 'that woman,' and asked twice whether she was coming or not. At last the clump of her feet was heard approaching. Mr. Pole commenced reading the instant she opened the door. She stood there, with a face like a petrified Irish outcry. An imploring sound ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... his anodyne. All day he had let it lull his conscience, rousing himself irritably as from a drugged sleep to answer the questions put to him by Dominique or the priest. Dominique's questions had been few and easily answered, the most of them relating to ...
— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... making itself felt even in Lancaster. 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 ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... a 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 cigars I ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... 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
... growing worse and worse." Mostyn went on, irritably. "I heard he had actually threatened my life. I don't want to take steps to restrain him, but I'll have to if he keeps it up. I can't afford to have him slandering me on every street-corner as he is doing. Every business man knows I was not to blame in that deal. The courts settled that for ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... well nigh a fool at the best of times," he said irritably, "and at present she knows no more what she is saying than a baby. Her mind is thrown completely off any little balance that it had and she is to all intents and ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty
... never be opened?" Mr. Travers began, irritably, then gave it up. "Well, so much the better then. I give you ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad
... I mean, more than I know?' asked Birkin irritably. He was acutely aware of Gerald's hand on his shoulder. And he did not want this altercation. He wanted the other man to come out of ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... babbling girls. I gritted my teeth and thought of McKnight at Richmond, visiting the lady with the geographical name. And then, for the first time, I associated John Gilmore's granddaughter with the "West" that McKnight had irritably flung ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... it, man, it may have been mere absence of mind. You were always an extraordinarily plucky chap." Wratislaw spoke irritably, for it seemed to him ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... other Pokes so loud that the Cowardly Lion roused himself with a start, and the pet snails stuck out their heads. "A rest? A rest is not what we want! We want breakfast!" growled the lion irritably and started to roar, but a yawn spoiled it. (One simply ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... 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
... another incident happened, which I shall always recall with pleasure. He had caught the ball too high on the bat, and I just missed the catch. "Dash it all!" said I irritably, and was about to resume bowling, when I noticed that he was unhappy. He hesitated, took up his position at the wicket, and then came to me manfully. "I am a cad," he said in distress, "for when the ball was in the air I prayed." He had ...
— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie
... 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
... right,' said Lord Wetherby, irritably. 'It isn't all right. What do you mean by hiding in the dark and popping out and barking at a man? You made me bite my tongue. I've never had such a ...
— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse
... He said it almost irritably. "I mean I shouldn't have thought you could have cared for a brute like that.... But the brutes ...
— The Romantic • May Sinclair
... just as 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 to ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed
... of women distressing themselves with such things?" said Mrs. Vosburgh, irritably. "I can't bear to think of war and its horrors, except as they give spice to a story. Our whole trouble is a big political squabble, and you know I detest politics. It is just as Mr. Lanniere says,—if our people had only let slavery alone all would have gone on ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... gie the lad a licking, and make him mind the sheep better? I saw him last Saturday playing sogers down at Thirlston with a score or more of idle lads like himsel'." The old man spoke irritably, and looked round for the culprit. "I'll lay thee a penny he's at the same game now. Gie him a licking when he comes in, ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... said Bones irritably, "what is four shillings to men like you or me, Hamilton? We ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... 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 done anything ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... bronze velvet curtains. The president's voice sounded on—he seemed to Weldon to have been uttering pompous platitudes since time began. His voice was as meaningless as a cardboard mask: how could people pay attention to him? Weldon wondered irritably. ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... most extraordinary thing I ever heard in my life," Horlock declared, a little irritably. "Why, I've spent hours of my time trying to ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... she re-entered the drawing-room—and suddenly checked herself with a start. "Good Heavens!" she exclaimed irritably, "how you frightened me! Why was I not told ...
— My Lady's Money • Wilkie Collins
... said, irritably, "I wish to goodness you wouldn't run out after dinner. Where have ...
— Stories by English Authors: The Sea • Various
... 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 ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
... and uneasy. "I don't know why you should talk to me in this strain," he said irritably. "I appreciate what you have done for me, and have no reason to treat you ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... that gate, its horn blatted irritably at the car of the acting head of municipal police. That car obediently made way ...
— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster
... insist," cried her mother, irritably. "I must know the truth at once. Just think, dear, I have lain here all day worrying about you, my child! It has been the hardest day of your life! I feel it and ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... 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
... of relief. I said: "I was not so sanguine as to suppose, as you predicted, that I should get six or eight times the amount of my investment; still a profit of 2 pounds is a good percentage for such a short time." Lupin said, quite irritably: "You don't understand. I sold your 20 pounds shares for 2 pounds; you therefore lose 18 pounds on the transaction, whereby Cummings and Gowing will lose the ...
— The Diary of a Nobody • George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
... she said irritably. "Perhaps I'm developing nerves. I do wish you would take me to New York. Other women get away from this town once in ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... Briscoe said irritably. "You'll need it at the Procyon end of the run. Here." He stuck some papers into Bart's hand, then punched some buttons on the robotcab's control. It wheeled and swerved so rapidly that Bart fell against ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... is!" he said irritably. "I banged him pretty hard. I don't like to hate anybody, but the ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... irritably, "you reporters butt in everywhere. No public man is safe. Is there no place we can go where ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... working like a slave over that beastly old Fetich," Phil said irritably, "as if he was ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
... use arguing with you, Hatch," said Charlie irritably, and turned to his desk by the window, there to frown fiercely over ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... 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 you've really something ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... by both hands and kissed her, she turned her head, so that my lips touched her cheek only. She flushed deeply; her eyes looked away from me as she spoke her few formal words of welcome. When the child flew into my arms, she cried out, irritably, "Don't trouble Mr. Germaine!" I took a chair, with the little one on my knee. Mrs. Van Brandt seated herself at a distance from me. "It is needless, I suppose, to ask you if you know what has happened," she said, turning pale again as suddenly as she had turned red, ...
— The Two Destinies • Wilkie Collins
... said 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 she ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... calculation. She would sit for hours, brooding sombrely. Her eyes, narrowed and serpent-like, gazed at the rushing waters, but when Madame de Ruth remarked on the beauty of the scene she would answer irritably that she was occupied, and only begged for quiet in which to think. Towards the middle of August Schuetz arrived from Vienna. He brought with him a document which he prayed Wilhelmine to consider, and to sign if she approved. It was ...
— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay
... he answered 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 ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... the priest, almost irritably. "Could you expect me to know every priest in America? But I could find out if there were such ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... vasodilators may be indicated. The most important are nitrites, iodids and thyroid extracts. Alcohol, as stated above, may act as a vasodilator. Aconite and veratrum viride are now rarely indicated, although possibly aconite should be used when there is high tension and the heart is acting irritably and stormily. ...
— DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D.
... Colonel's glowering brows said very distinctly that the alternative was an immediate little hell right there beneath the trees and, choosing the more remote, Zack turned slowly to the house. The old gentleman's eyes followed him, and now he turned irritably ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris
... said 'beer,'" remarked Robert a little irritably, "and in any case I insist that you dismiss your present cook. You only took her because she was a Christian Scientist, and you've left that little sheep-fold now. You used to talk about false claims I remember. Well her claim to be a cook is the falsest I ever heard of. ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson
... 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 ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... his head irritably, as if by so doing he could throw off these troublesome imaginations. Since the death of Strangeways, he had not recovered his poise of soul. Ah, and Strangeways! Was Strangeways conscious of his body's release, ...
— Murder Point - A Tale of Keewatin • Coningsby Dawson
... he's not expected to live," said Mr. Briggerland. He rubbed his bald head irritably. "I wonder if that lunatic is going ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... remarkable circumstance in the story of the conspiracy, her own eyes informed her that she had Anne Catherick's clothes on. The nurse, on the first night in the Asylum, had shown her the marks on each article of her underclothing as it was taken off, and had said, not at all irritably or unkindly, "Look at your own name on your own clothes, and don't worry us all any more about being Lady Glyde. She's dead and buried, and you're alive and hearty. Do look at your clothes now! There it is, in good marking ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... He questioned sharply, irritably, the length to which his projections had reached. What were they all about? The answer was presented by the glittering figure of the Manchu; she had risen and was standing in the entrance of the summerhouse. He thought, with a jerking pulse, of Oriental similes; she was ...
— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer
... better try and remember," he said irritably. "It seems to me that I've been kept in the dark. You went to the police to demand an investigation into your brother's death, but you did not say anything of the disclosure he made to you yesterday ...
— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees
... 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 do. . . . That'll do, sergeant; take him off. . . . Where's that bottle of mine? ...
— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable
... pity's sake go crying, Salome," said Judith irritably. "I think I've let him off very easily. He is enough to try the patience of a saint, and I never was that," ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... finish," growled one of the men irritably. "You know we are running an awful risk in getting you out of the prison and bringing you here when you are supposed to be with the chaplain; you swore you would behave squarely with us and go back when you were told. Now you've got to ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... well," Iskender grunted irritably. "He is my friend. This day he spent two hours ...
— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall
... stream's face When the wind skims irritably past, The current clucks smartly into each hollow place That years of flood have scrabbled in the pier's sodden base; ...
— Moments of Vision • Thomas Hardy
... and rubbed the back of his axe approvingly. Nat held his tongue for a minute almost, and then broke out irritably: "To hell ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... 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, ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... to the Lord you'd let me!" growled Priming, irritably rubbing his head with the handle ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... Jeffrey irritably. "I only want to know the state of things here. So I can tell what ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... irritably, for her nerves were sadly worn, "what good can such words do? We must live, I suppose, and ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... Eric, half irritably, half laughingly, "have you and David Baker entered into a conspiracy to hound me into matrimony whether ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... 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. Presently he ...
— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher
... little Berk, though he loved his elder after a fashion, was wayward, selfish, and unstable as water. He would be very sorry sometimes, very repentant, and would promise anything under the sun; but five minutes afterward he would go his own way just the same, and be as irritably resentful of interference as a proud, spoiled, still-childish temper can be. And Cecil—the last man in the world to turn mentor—would light a cheroot, as he did to-night, and forget all about it. The boy would be right enough when he had had his swing, he thought. Bertie's ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... 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 ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
... to do than to stare at me like that?" she said irritably. "Murder or no murder, I've got to get ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... his 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 ...
— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan
... that sort of superstition," said I irritably. "He's just as likely to die as any other ...
— Dolly Dialogues • Anthony Hope
... My husband said irritably: "Why! what can a good doctor do more than I am doing? The case is quite a simple one, and the ...
— The Hungry Stones And Other Stories • Rabindranath Tagore
... a laboratory somewhere, boiling acids? Why isn't he digging in city libraries or hunting scientific stuff over in Vienna? Vienna's the place for him. I wish him there fast enough," irritably continued this asperser of other ...
— Under the Country Sky • Grace S. Richmond
... person I could have selected to introduce me to General Laguerre. It seemed as though it certainly would have been better had I found my way to him alone. I grew so uneasy concerning my possible reception that I said, irritably: "Doesn't the General know you ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... shop-keeper wailed like a man beside himself. He gabbled, imploring Heywood. The young man nodded. "Yes, yes," he repeated irritably, staring down at the body, but listening to the stream ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... way," said Morewood irritably. "If you must be the slave of your conscience, hang it, you needn't be of your intellect. Ask the Dean there." (The Dean, who had been drinking his port in thoughtful peace, started a little.) "He'll tell you that belief is ...
— Quisante • Anthony Hope
... grew impatient. "I suppose you think," he said irritably, "that you have reduced it to this—the sacrifice of one parent or the other. You have no business to think about such things; but if you had, to which do you owe the most duty? Who has ...
— The Good Comrade • Una L. Silberrad
... 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 ...
— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson
... problems, Hyde reflected irritably. "Sydney Ducks." There would be many more no doubt, for San Francisco was growing. It had 500 citizens, irrespective of the New York volunteers; 157 buildings. He would need helpers in the task of city-governing. Half idly he jotted down the ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... 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
... a farce," Patricia said irritably. "After all our trouble locating Don, our Common Man, we have found out nothing that we didn't know before. His reactions were evidently largely similar to our own and...." She broke it off and frowned thoughtfully. The other three ...
— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)
... her, rather irritably. "You little fool, do you want to catch a chill as well—so's to make two invalids instead of one? Here, put on ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... want to 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, ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... cried the third man irritably. "Proceed! Proceed! Proceed! Himmel, you must be led step by step! Speak, idiot! ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... at the club," continued his employer, irritably. "I feel like a fish out of water there, and that's the truth, Mr. Jarvis. It's a good club. I got elected there—well, never mind how—but it's one thing to be a member of a club, and quite another to get to know the men there. You understand ...
— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... be true," said Lorraine, somewhat irritably, "but you had better be careful how you air your Northern ...
— Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted • Frances E.W. Harper
... invited. The resulting discomfort of mind, however, he speedily assigned to the girl's account. He continued, as at first, to ignore her. But in the slow rumination of the forest he became more and more irritably sensible of her presence. Sam's taciturnity was contrastedly sunny and open. He looked on things about him with the placid receptivity of an old man, and said nothing because there was nothing to say. The Ojibway girl remained inscrutable, helping ...
— The Silent Places • Stewart Edward White
... 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 ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... him comfortable, and who knows, to-morrow might not be too late!" The surgeon ended irritably, impatient at the unprofessional frankness of his words, and disgusted that he had taken this woman into his confidence. Did she want him to say: 'See here, there's only one chance in a thousand that we can save that carcass; and if he gets that chance, it may ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... absurd," said Dr. Shalt, irritably. "That was your voice, your pitch. The voice of your dummy, Spud." He wasn't going to be taken in by any warped sense of humor. Robbie Crawford was the best ventriloquist in America. He was also noted for his practical jokes. "An experiment of this magnitude shouldn't ...
— The Second Voice • Mann Rubin
... 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
... rate, Barney conceded to himself, had to be regarded as an improvement on the first. Well, he added irritably, and what wouldn't be? It hadn't been delightful, he'd frequently felt almost stupefied with boredom. But physically, at least, he was fit—considerably fitter, as a matter of fact, than he'd ever ...
— Gone Fishing • James H. Schmitz
... said Chawner irritably, "it will—you mayn't mean to tell of anyone but yourself; but directly Grimstone asks you questions, it all comes out. I know all about it. And, anyway, I forbid you to go up ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... to see you, or I should not have had you called," Wilcox replied irritably. "I wish to have an explicit understanding with you as to our proceeding next week at our conference with the financial delegates. Sit here, close to me. It is not necessary for us to shout our business ...
— The Martian Cabal • Roman Frederick Starzl
... anything 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 a ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope
... 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 ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... Of course, pounding irritably with her club, the only reason for not marrying him was that there were too many reasons for doing so. She could not think of a single person who would furnish the stimulus of an objection. Stupid to have every ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell
... a prude, Moya," Joyce snapped irritably. "I told you I was fond of him, didn't I? How could I help his kissing me ... or help liking to have him? He ought to be glad. Instead, he insults me." Miss Seldon's self-pity reached the acute stage of sobs. "I was in love with him. Why ...
— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine |
