"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... infinitely preferable to life, and a doctor must know plenty of safe ways of setting free the poor imprisoned wretch as one would free a miserable caged bird. Tell me, has such an experience ever come your way?" He spoke almost irritably now. ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... 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 ...
— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... foolish," said Mr. Cullen, irritably. "You might just as well have the pleasure, and you'll only disturb the game ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... Valentine," Julian repeated rather irritably. His temper was much less certain and sunny lately than of old. "But I believe he's devoted to every one he can do any good to. We used to see him continually, but he's been abroad for weeks, looking after a bad case, a Russian Grand Duke in ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens
... was not probably the very worst 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
... us talk of such folly any longer," the lawyer said irritably. "Now that you have got the money, the best thing you can do is to go at once and carry out what was the wish both of your father and your uncle, and ask your cousin to marry you; that will put an end to the whole business, and I can tell you that I am positively convinced that the day she gets ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... active man, this was a good enough ladder, and the inspector withdrew his head shrugging his square shoulders, irritably. ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer
... way; of course not," the young man said irritably. "But there is a way. It's been used before. Are you up ...
— The Unnecessary Man • Gordon Randall Garrett
... "Oh, goodness!" John 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
... stirred. "If you are going to stay out here, you ought to put something around you," he said irritably. ...
— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice
... me that he's not expected to live," said Mr. Briggerland. He rubbed his bald head irritably. "I wonder if that lunatic ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... 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 which ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... one of the little grated openings in the walls. But all to no purpose; at the end of three weeks from the date of the disappearance the mystery remained as insoluble as ever. Nor had Don Ramon met with any better success. "I cannot understand it," exclaimed that gentleman irritably; "I have sought information in every conceivable direction, and have set all sorts of unseen forces in motion, with absolutely no result. Even the Capitan-General has drawn blank: he is ignorant—or ...
— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood
... his butterflies as usual," said Mrs. Flanders irritably, but was surprised by a sudden afterthought, "Cricket begins ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... snorting like that, my boy," said Mr. Chugwater, a little irritably, "you must find some other game. You made me jump just as I was going ...
— The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England - A Tale of the Great Invasion • P. G. Wodehouse
... 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 ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... have me sham insanity during the trial, and he became irritably insolent in his manner toward me because I positively refused to do so. He told me that if I stuck to the truth I would surely be convicted, but if I followed his advice by openly assuming idiotic tactics in court and making false statements under oath, according to his ...
— Born Again • Alfred Lawson
... 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
... 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 ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... Shakespeare. In a corner of the preface to an edition of "Shakspere" which bears on its title-page the name (correctly spelt) of Queen Victoria's youngest son prefixed to the name I have just transcribed, a small pellet of dry dirt was flung upwards at me from behind by the "able editor" thus irritably impatient to figure in public as the volunteer valet or literary lackey of Prince Leopold. Hence I gathered the edifying assurance that this aspirant to the honours of literature in livery had been reminded of my humbler attempts ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... shock went through me at the unexpected presence that seemed to have dropped down from nowhere, and I replied irritably: ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts
... 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 your ...
— The Yellow Crayon • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... officer in a thin voice, brandishing a white saber. He lifted his feet high, and without bending his knees struck his soles on the ground irritably. The high polish on his boots caught ...
— Mother • Maxim Gorky
... child, where have you been?" her mother exclaimed irritably, when at last she appeared. "I sent you to get a book to ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... the war had begun, and was 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 waistcoat! ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... he showed her how he upset a man once and stood him on his head," he said, irritably. "I was what ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs
... that 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 ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... that gong! how it does belabor and thrash one's tympanum!" said the judge irritably, as he slowly arose to ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... 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 ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) • Edith Wharton
... 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 ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2) • Various
... 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. ...
— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer
... 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
... Pfeiffer irritably and shouted: "Ho, Bakunja—la." Instantly appeared the tall negro in white. "You son of a god! Look ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... in my wagon. "I beg your pardon," I said irritably to Trenchard, "but your boot is in ...
— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole
... knave, Duchess of Portsmouth," irritably exclaimed a handsome gallant, himself stumbling somewhat over the French name, though making a bold play for it, as he passed toward his box, pushing the fellow aside. He added a moment later, but so that no one heard: "Portsmouth ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... said, almost irritably. "I only meant that I see the obvious things, while you seem to have an eye for the subtle. There's reward, I suppose, in seeing anything. But about those more delicate appreciations of societies longer evolved, I sometimes think that you ...
— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan
... no comprehension of feelings," said the poet, irritably, like a man who hears truth when ...
— Modeste Mignon • Honore de Balzac
... found any thing," said Fred irritably, "then they ought to come back and tell us so. We don't want ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... Egypt?" he burst forth irritably. "Hardly have I overthrown an invader before my people break out. I quiet them in one place and they revolt in another. Must I turn a spear upon ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... both were brought, and the best that could be done under the circumstances was effected by the major and Sergeant James, while the sufferer resisted strongly, every now and then muttering impatiently. Then irritably telling those who tended him to let him go to sleep, he closed his eyes, but only to open them again and stare vacantly, just as Dickenson, who had been away for another look round on his own account, came up and bent ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... steps Fee stopped, and taking off his hat, began pushing his hair back off his forehead. I could see he was nervous. "Suppose this shouldn't be the right thing that I'm going to do; suppose it should make matters worse," he said undecidedly, almost irritably. "Now, if Nannie were here—I haven't a creature to ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
... Ebenezer answered, irritably again. "It's an old glass. I was looking over some rubbish, and I found it—over back. It's a ...
— Christmas - A Story • Zona Gale
... beast back yet?" he asked irritably, scraping the mud from his boot upon the rail. "I've had Uncle Boaz scouring the county ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... know that Malcourt was usually at her heels," he said almost irritably. It was the second time he had heard that comment, and he found ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers
... to 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
... affairs. Judith had come home before her father and now looked up from her game of checkers with wondering eyes. Sylvia explained that she was not sick, and that nothing had happened to break up or disturb the house-party. "I just felt like coming home, that's all!" she said irritably, touched on the raw by the friendly loving eyes and voices about her. She was glad at least that her father was not at home. That was one ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... way, nervous, silent and in haste, as though in fear of unseen enemies. Rhodes looked after her irritably. He was fagged and worn out by one of the hardest trails he had ever covered, and was in no condition to solve the curious problems of the Indian mind, but the girl had proven a good soldier of the desert, and was, for the first time, betraying anxiety, ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan
... said the Professor, rubbing up his hair irritably, "dear me! I'd no idea of this—no idea at all. I was under the impression that you volunteered to act as escort to my wife and daughter at St. Luc purely out of good nature to relieve me from what—to a man of my habits in that extreme ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... I never thought it had a market value. I told you so in the beginning," I said, irritably. "But what on earth have you ...
— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung
... 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
... 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
... had left them the brother and sister did not speak for a time. Then the doctor said, irritably: "Julia, say something, for Heaven's sake. What did you think of ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield
... 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 Man Who Lost Himself • H. De Vere Stacpoole
... mind going to the after-deck?" he asked. "These people walking about fidget me," he added rather irritably. ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... his legs apart, and sat down sidewise so that he could reach the inkwell. He overhung his chair so generously that from the front he appeared to be perched precariously upon its edge or to be holding some one in his lap. "Where are those cable blanks!" he cried, irritably, stirring up the confusion in front ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... me nine crowns,' 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 ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... 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
... 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
... sense of making a revelation. But she had never before said anything to Will which threw so strong a light on her marriage. He did not shrug his shoulders; and for want of that muscular outlet he thought the more irritably of beautiful lips kissing holy skulls and other emptinesses ecclesiastically enshrined. Also he had to take care that his speech should ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... can tell you," he said irritably, "to be as weak as a day-old baby, and to have to let ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... feet but also my backbone is protesting. Whether you have reached the end of that Anthony Adverse of a shopping list or not, we're going home! And what are you looking for? You've opened all those bags at least twice and dropped no less than three on the floor each time," he snapped irritably. ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton
... severe 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." She is surfeited with horrors; her ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland
... if he will come back," questioned the Big Business Man nervously. "Lord, I wish he wouldn't snore so loud," he added irritably, nodding in the direction ...
— The Girl in the Golden Atom • Raymond King Cummings
... be another ship!" said Sergeant Madden irritably. "To bring the extra rockets. The other ship had to've brought 'em. And it had to have rockets of its ...
— A Matter of Importance • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... I'm 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
... 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 and I ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... with me?" he asked himself irritably. "I'm my own master, I guess. Nobody can put anything over on me. What need I care if she opens a dozen restaurants? One would think I was afraid of the girl! Ridiculous! Lord! I wish she were at the other ...
— The Huntress • Hulbert Footner
... habitues. It was not the first time that women who had lost at the tables had begged a napoleon from him, or asked the distinguished child of fortune what color or combination she should play. That, in his luckier days, had happened often and had amused him, but now he moved back irritably and wished that the figure in front of him would disappear as ...
— Gallegher and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... so genuinely fond of him that she hated to give him pain. Looking at him, standing before her in his splendid young manhood, she wondered irritably why she didn't love him. ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... impatiently. "You don't read me," he said irritably. "These places are few, and Manx advocates are as thick as flies in a glue-pot. For every office there must be fifty applicants, but training counts for something, and influence for something, and family ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... this heckled mood, turned irritably to his ball, played a long midiron, just cleared the crescent bank of the last swale, and ran up ...
— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson
... 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
... 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 ...
— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace
... they heard Dwight Sanderson yell irritably, when they knocked at his door, and they entered to find him squatted by a stone fireplace and pounding coffee wrapped ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... 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
... are!" exclaimed that person, irritably, as he turned off the road and came through ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... reflected none of the other's earnestness. He seemed, indeed, a little bored, and he answered almost irritably. ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... pleasure 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 Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
... a fool to allow her to come down; she is far too pretty to appear in public with me; any one would suppose her to be an equal," she muttered, irritably. "Who would have believed," she added, "that she could have gotten herself up in that bewitching style, with only a few bits of white ribbon and not a single ornament! I wonder where she got her violets? She has ...
— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... on him at all," replied Ernest irritably. "I went up to see him on my way home. He told us to call on him if we ever were in New York. And I wasn't coming back to this God forsaken hole without seeing Broadway. Where is ...
— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie
... town," he said irritably. "Besides, he wouldn't see you until you had told me your business anyway. What do you think ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse
... was 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
... say so. I've just said so," retorted Inspector Seldon irritably. He was angry at the fact that the information, whether true or false, had gone direct to Scotland Yard instead ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson
... "Really!" he protested 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
... in disgust and irritably resuming his march to and fro). Yes: you have said that more than ...
— The Man of Destiny • George Bernard Shaw
... snapped Tessie irritably. "I hate it!" They had often walked along the river and tasted of the spring water, but Chuck had never before waxed scientific. They took a boat at Baumann's boathouse and drifted down the ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber
... 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 to-morrow." He ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed
... he has?' said the Family Egotist, irritably. 'What does one fool more in the world matter? Do stop rotting, you fellows, and pass ...
— Modern marriage and how to bear it • Maud Churton Braby
... thin, his cheeks were hollow, and there was an unhealthy sallowness in their color. His rather large, prominent, dark eyes had an expression of firm determination, and yet there was a vague look in them, too. Even when he was excited and talking irritably, his eyes somehow did not follow his mood, but betrayed something else, sometimes quite incongruous with what was passing. "It's hard to tell what he's thinking," those who talked to him sometimes declared. ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... there for 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 ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... woman, irritably. "I be fairly feared ter bide hyar; 'twouldn't s'prise me none ef they kem hyar an' hauled Tobe out an' lynched him an' sech, an' who knows who mought ...
— 'way Down In Lonesome Cove - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... took from a drawer a form, and his pen scratched irritably at blanks here and there. He tossed it over to Barlow saying, "I'm going to give this decoit this provisional pardon; perhaps it will nail him. What he has confessed is of value. You translate this to him while I think; I can't make ...
— Caste • W. A. Fraser
... irritably. "It's simple jealousy. She won't let the poor boy alone till he's in love with her again. It's a ...
— Frivolous Cupid • Anthony Hope
... crept to the window and was gazing out at the sinking flames. "Say, ain't we pardners?" he queried irritably. "You said we was when you brung me up here. And pardners stick, don't they? I reckon if it was my shack that was gittin' rushed, you 'd stick, and not go bellyin' under the bunk and hidin' like ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... he ran his hand through his hair, but time irritably, then shook his head from side to side rubbed ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... far-sighted Aggie was experiencing less pleasant sensations at the phone. "A special?" she was saying to Jimmy. "When did Alfred GET the message?" There was a slight pause. Then she asked irritably, "Well, didn't you mark it 'NIGHT message'?" From the expression on Aggie's face it was evident that he had not done so. "But, Jimmy," protested Aggie, "this is dreadful! We haven't any baby!" Then calling to him to wait a minute, and ...
— Baby Mine • Margaret Mayo
... all this hocus-pocus is going to do us?" muttered Harry irritably, "as if an old fire could tell us anything we didn't know already. It's all ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... 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 superior ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... nonsense!" says Barbro irritably, for all that Axel has asked innocently enough. And in her bitterness she lets out what is the matter. "You can see how 'tis with ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... any one 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
... other thing," said the sleepless man irritably, "the other thing. No man can keep sane if ...
— When the Sleeper Wakes • Herbert George Wells
... irritably. "Well, will you open the gate? I'm very tired: I can't bear this suit ...
— The Bluff of the Hawk • Anthony Gilmore
... dear feminine Alceste," she said irritably, "looking at things from your solitary standpoint on that rock of yours in the middle of the sea. You are thinking of the excelling of genius, of the possessor of an ideal fame, of the 'Huntress mightier than the moon' and I am thinking of the woman who excels in Society—who has the biggest ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... command," 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 me, and ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England
... fuss about that, Mary," he cried irritably. "It's nothing. Master Bob won't be able ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... ask her if I do not know her name?" said her mother, irritably, with just that amount of dread of her daughter's rising temper to make her anxious to conciliate her. "If you like to find out who she is ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
... ascertained a lot about the inner politics of China," mumbled Furneaux, irritably, gazing fixedly at the skull after one quick glance of his colleague. "Every little helps, of course. I have met some Chinamen this morning who would cheerfully plunge Wong Li Fu into a cauldron of boiling oil, and stir ...
— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy
... replied Doctor 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
... "Twt, nonsense," said Will irritably; but he nevertheless allowed her to leave him, with a wave of her hand, and an amused twinkle ...
— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine
... Impatiently, irritably, the master of the house turned away. "I want to hear no more of this. Of course, if it's true, I shall know how to act. I'll—I'll go to the library in the ...
— A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike • Charles King
... escort 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
... matter, Malcolm, I can tell you," Andrew said irritably; "but of course I will see what I can do. And now I will put on my bonnet and come with you and have a chat with Ronald. It will not do to bring him here tonight, but we must arrange for him to come and see Janet before he sails. I shall not tell her anything about ...
— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty
... the old mahogany rack. "I've nothing to ride," he replied irritably, "and I don't choose to walk—that's what ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... room and Arenta lifted the box and carried it nearer to the light. And a little shiver crept through her heart and she closed the lid quickly and said irritably— ...
— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr
... 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
... who made 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 the ...
— Blake's Burden • Harold Bindloss
... scattered 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 |
