"Irritably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... strode irritably across the room and back. Then he came to a standstill before Paul's chair and looked down with steely eyes ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett
... can't ye, Marindy?" screamed Mr. Peters, irritably; "beats all how you allers interfere in my business—just like a woman!" he fumed, as ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney
... zu Pfeiffer irritably and shouted: "Ho, Bakunja—la." Instantly appeared the tall negro in white. "You son of a god! Look ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... 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 ...
— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty
... said Miss Quincey. She said it irritably, but everybody knows that a little temper is the surest symptom of returning health. "What ...
— Superseded • May Sinclair
... 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 they ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... did!" cried Alexia irritably to herself, "see anything so queer! Now she thinks she must race after those boys. I wish I'd kept still. Jasper, she's just as funny as ever," as he came up with a plate of salad, and some oysters. "Who?" said the boy; "is this ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... at my watch," irritably returned Hamish, who had spoken resentfully throughout, as if some great wrong were being inflicted upon him in having to speak ...
— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood
... me nervous," rebuked Margery irritably. "Isn't it hard enough to climb this skating rink without being ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge
... story, or be quiet, and mind your own business. You exhaust all patience," cuttingly and irritably remarked Nastasia Philipovna. ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... did!" she exclaimed irritably. "What else is a girl to do, I'd like to ask? It's just going from one stove to another, here. Only it'll be worse in my case—you and Aunt Ettie have been lovely to me. I hate to cook!" she cried. "And it makes me sick to put my ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer
... 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
... name of goodness is Banks?" I inquired irritably. The petulant tone was merely an artifice. I realised that if I were meek, he would lose more time in abusing my apparent imbecility. I know that the one way to beat a bully is by bullying, but I hate even the ...
— The Jervaise Comedy • J. D. Beresford
... a man beside himself. He gabbled, imploring Heywood. The young man nodded. "Yes, yes," he repeated irritably, staring down at the body, but listening ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... a fool, and cannot see before your nose," cried Abdu, irritably. "Arabi dare not quarrel with Naoum; the other is only powerful in favour, he does not wield the hold over our master. No, Arden will work his end, but not through his master, it will be in the way he ordered the prison ...
— Under the Rebel's Reign • Charles Neufeld
... hat from the old mahogany rack. "I've nothing to ride," he replied irritably, "and I don't choose ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... engaged she could not spare that poor creature a moment or so?" he inquired, irritably. ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... 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, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 24, 1891. • Various
... yes! What is it?" he cried, irritably. "Mercy Hospital! What?" The young physician started. "Hurt, you say? Run-away? Go on, quick!" He listened with whitening face, then broke in abruptly: "Of course he sent for me. I'll ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... off 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 ...
— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson
... I 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
... had met Mrs. Whitney at the foot of the staircase, dressed for paying visits. "Oh, are you going out?" he said, glancing impatiently at her attire. "And I'd just started to speak to you on a matter of great importance! Of the greatest importance indeed!" he repeated irritably, as he stood with one gloved ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... 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 ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... 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
... let her go home, and stay there till she is better," said the Colonel, irritably. "A love lorn young lady perpetually before me I cannot and will ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... answered Vane, rather irritably; "of course there is a form of oath—to be taken reverently—reverently, and there's an end of it. But to talk in a public place about one's most sacred and private sentiments—well, I call it bad taste. (Slight applause.) I call it irreverent. I call ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton
... 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 ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... right," 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 is ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... St. Paul if your family won't?" went on the lawyer irritably. "What's the good of avoiding girls of your own, only to have somebody ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... and throw me overboard?" he thought, and at the very last, he changed his tactics and devoted himself to the heiress with an assiduity which left her little doubt of his intentions. Still, to her he did not speak, though to his mother he said, half irritably, as if it were something wrung from him ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... 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
... by that, Valerie?' exclaimed Isolde irritably. 'You are in one of your incomprehensible moods to-day. What do you think ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
... Merrington shook his head irritably. Really, it seemed impossible to reach the end of the people who were in this infernal moat-house at the time of ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees
... Mephistopheles of Russia!" Nejdanov exclaimed irritably. "I am not in the mood for fencing with blunt ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev
... need somebody to help me," said Mrs. Hildreth gratefully. "Rosemary, Miss Clinton telephoned me this morning she wanted a dozen fresh eggs—why do they always say 'fresh eggs'?" she broke off irritably. "'Tisn't likely I'd go out and get her a dozen stale eggs, even if I could find 'em. Well, she wants them this afternoon and I hate to disappoint her. She's kind of used to getting what she wants ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... There was a peculiar intonation in her complacent voice, which showed she had been expecting him, a little irritably. ...
— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence
... to jump you?" asked L. W. irritably. "What's biting you, anyway? Ain't your claims all legal? Has anybody disputed you? Well, get ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... yourself with any such ideers," said the hairdresser, irritably. "I shan't do no such thing, so you needn't think it. And, to come to the point, how long do you mean to carry on this ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey
... sing something else?" said Compton, irritably, as the mournful wail dinned its misery into ...
— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville
... with justice be said to lead a busier life than she did. But, though Hilary often felt vaguely dissatisfied at the way in which she dawdled through the days, she had not strength of mind to bestir herself to pass them otherwise. After all, what was there for her to do? she asked herself irritably. She was supposed to have finished her education, and though she was dimly aware that she was shamefully ignorant, there seemed no especial object in her getting out her lesson-books and ...
— The Rebellion of Margaret • Geraldine Mockler
... "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
... is like a furnace," she cried, irritably throwing the sheet which covered her down on to the floor. "Why should I be poked up here and Robbie sleep downstairs with ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... limit, I 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 ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower
... understand," 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 want ...
— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
... changed color, and she frowned irritably. Nancy sat down on the foot of the bed and took the sick woman's hand in her ...
— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer
... 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
... thinking heavily. "Why, no, Jonas, I guess not." Then he added irritably, "A man must rest, Jonas. I can't ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... began, 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
... 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
... Fairy irritably, "it's nonsense to tell me I don't say what I've just said! And, as I was about to tell you, his conduct caused the greatest disappointment and annoyance to his father, who is naturally anxious that his line should not die out. So he begged me to use my influence. Well, I saw, ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... 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
... 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 and ...
— The Hippodrome • Rachel Hayward
... quiet." The doctor was finding the simplicity and trustfulness of her gaze very trying. "Lola," he continued, desperately, "I—you must listen to me." Just at this point something struck against his arm, and turning irritably, ...
— A Prairie Infanta • Eva Wilder Brodhead
... a general idea of its contents, and praised its tone. "I daresay," threw out her father, almost irritably, "but I shall strongly advise her to have done with all ...
— The Crown of Life • George Gissing
... shut up," she retorted irritably. "I want liberty as much as you do. If I had any, I'd go to every play and opera in New York. And I'd go about with my friends and I'd have gowns fitted, and I'd have tea at Sherry's, and I'd shop and ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... jaw!" said the young footman irritably, flicking the bird with the table-cloth, and then ...
— The Rosary • Florence L. Barclay
... 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
... and down the length of the long room, pushing aside the cushions irritably, and at one end knocking over a great bowl of flowers. He did not appear conscious of his clumsiness, and did not seem to see the maids who ran to mop up the water. At the next turn down the room he pushed between them as if they had not been there. ...
— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy
... he replied, "I am not responsible for the variations in my son's habit of body." Then, as Morris turned away irritably, he added in a stage whisper, "He's been a bit upset, poor fellow! He felt your ...
— Stella Fregelius • H. Rider Haggard
... a headache," she said irritably. "Perhaps I'm developing nerves. I do wish you would take me to New York. Other women get away from this ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... can't be cured, that's obvious.... [Irritably to YASHA] What's the matter? Why do you keep twisting about in ...
— Plays by Chekhov, Second Series • Anton Chekhov
... better carry me into the garden," said Hester, rising with the others. "You must forgive me if I spoke irritably. ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley
... companionable silence of the trees. The demands of the imagination vary; some can be alone in a back garden looked upon by windows; others, like the ostrich, are content with a solitude that meets the eye; and others, again, expand in fancy to the very borders of their desert, and are irritably conscious of a hunter's camp in an adjacent county. To these last, of course, Fontainebleau will seem but an extended tea-garden: a Rosherville on a by-day. But to the plain man it offers solitude: an excellent thing in itself, and ...
— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson
... matters in the least," said the old woman irritably, settling back with a grim expression on her face. "Now if you will take my advice and get started, young man, I would be very ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... healthy in his face. It was rather 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. People who saw something pensive and sullen in his eyes were startled by his ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... 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 ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... 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
... 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 is far ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
... irritably replied Randolph, who as the "young marse" had been accustomed to considerable deference on the plantation. "Well, take that," he angrily cried, aiming a ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... great compliment to Mr. Sinclair, for Dr. Lambert was rather severe on the young men of the day. "I don't know what has come to them," he would remark irritably; "young men nowadays call their father 'governor,' and speak to him as though he were their equal in age. There is no respect shown to elders. A brainless young puppy will contradict a man twice his age, and there is not even the same courtesy shown to the weaker sex either. I ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... to, Ray. They're all so dumb. They've got no ambition," Thea exclaimed irritably. "Jenny Smiley is the only one who isn't stupid. She can read pretty well, and she has such good hands. But she don't care a rap about it. She has ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... adjusted a chair behind him, spread 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
... accomplishment, like the homo unius libri, are usually within that narrow circle disagreeably perfect, and therefore apt to be arrogant. People who can do all things, usually do every one of them ill; and living in a constant effort to deny this too palpable fact, they become irritably vain. But Mr. Lamb the elder seems to have been bent on perfection. He did all things; he did them all well; and yet was neither gloomily arrogant, nor testily vain. And being conscious apparently that all mechanic excellencies tend to illiberal results, unless counteracted ...
— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... see," Aaron continued irritably, "that the coming of Maraton has changed many things? A man like that can't serve under anybody, and no man could come as a stranger and lead the Labour Party. He has to be outside. This is a working man's constituency. He is pledged to fight Capital, fight ...
— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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 ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber
... it be not hard and true?" he shouted irritably, and snatching the sword from the Mime's hand he struck it upon the anvil and it ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... communicated no such thrill to Delia. She was only irritably conscious of the uncouthness of his large cadaverous face, and straggling fair hair; of his ragged ulster, his loosened tie, and all the other untidy details of his dress. "And I shall have to go on meeting him!" she thought, with repulsion. "And at the end of this ...
— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... irritably: "I don't have to work for a living every minute, do I? For Heaven's sake give me a ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... 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
... have been something of a trial, I imagine, with his habit of asking the why and wherefore of rules and regulations and his refusal to submit to them without a logical answer. One day, for instance, when a certain master spoke somewhat sourly and irritably to him, Robert Hart then and there took it upon himself to deliver him a lecture which, in its ...
— Sir Robert Hart - The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition • Juliet Bredon
... pretty kettle of fish," the squire said irritably. "What on earth did the boy mean by getting himself mixed up with such an ...
— With Wolfe in Canada - The Winning of a Continent • G. A. Henty
... Fernando leaves the question of his father's parentage in all its original obscurity, yet appears irritably sensitive to any derogatory suggestions of others, his whole evidence tends to the conviction that he really knew nothing to ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving
... about?" demanded Edmund, twitching me irritably by the sleeve. "They're worshipping ...
— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss
... for you?" he asked gently as the boy sat quietly down; and made irritably incisive by the tendency of near-by men and women to listen as well as watch, he emphasized his expensive order of foods and wines, repeated each item loudly to cheapen the listeners, and sent ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... 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 ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... Miss Dexter, irritably. "Don't I tell you, Farmer Wise, that they will live on at the Inn? These young gentlemen like comfort, like being waited upon. They do this in order to insure—in order to— oh! it is difficult to explain my meaning, but you must see, Farmer Wise, that ...
— Crowded Out! and Other Sketches • Susie F. Harrison
... his coming, though everyone was in bed. The fire had been made up, and his whisky decanter and soda siphon stood by a plate of sandwiches on the dining-room table. Marie was looking after him infernally, defiantly well, he thought, as he splashed whisky irritably into a tumbler. It was almost as though she were making all she did utter for her: "See how perfectly I fulfil my duties! See how comfortable you are! You've nothing whatever to grumble about. Make your own life and ...
— Married Life - The True Romance • May Edginton
... no 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
... 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
... 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
... thing," said the sleepless man irritably, "the other thing. No man can keep sane ...
— When the Sleeper Wakes • Herbert George Wells
... continued Gerard, irritably, "five-sixths of the pages are devoted to love; everything else is subordinated to it; it controls all motives, it initiates all action, it drugs reason, it prolongs the tuppenny suspense, sustains cheap situations, and produces agonisingly profitable climaxes for ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... 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
... he showed her how he upset a man once and stood him on his head," he said, irritably. "I was what he ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs
... change in the little princess' dress, 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 shameless, and ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... sat 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
... 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
... 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
... was slow to rally from his wound; and being scarcely convalescent when Richard drew in his forces, he had been left in command of Pontefract in place of Sir Robert Wallingford, who went with the King. But lately his strength was coming back to him with swift pulsations and he was growing irritably impatient of his forced inactivity and of the obligation of office which held him stagnant while his sovereign rode to the wars. For as yet, no news had reached this distant section of the actual happenings in the South and the bloodless ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... stealing," he said irritably; "she knew she might have them if she wanted." It was as though he were giving a shuffling excuse for some fault of his ...
— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall
... him in," snapped Vidac and closed the key on the teleceiver irritably. A second later the door opened and Professor Sykes entered hurriedly. He was dirty and dusty from his ten-day stay in the ...
— The Space Pioneers • Carey Rockwell
... irritably. "It's simple jealousy. She won't let the poor boy alone till he's in love with her ...
— Frivolous Cupid • Anthony Hope
... cheering spread to the people around her, Agnes stopped and asked a man why they did that. She spoke a little irritably, for she was out of humor with people who would cheer one man for taking something that belonged to another. That was the way ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... boy," she said, irritably. "You make me tired. I don't feel like being badgered by anybody, and, besides, I'm not mortgaged ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... 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 ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... that he was. The Head drummed irritably with his fingers on the arm of his chair. This mystery, coming as it did after the series of worries through which he had been passing for the last few days, annoyed him as much as it is to be supposed the last straw annoyed ...
— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse
... certainly the most economical man I ever saw," declared the Prince, irritably. "I wouldn't be so mean with my old footprints; nobody else would bother to pick them up. And as for breath, you might spare a little more of ...
— Prince Vance - The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box • Eleanor Putnam
... 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 at once, but as I'd never been in ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... there, with Howard sitting beside him, a rangy boy 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 sordid place, its steel mills belching black smoke that killed ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... true," said Lorraine, somewhat irritably, "but you had better be careful how you air your Northern notions ...
— Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted • Frances E.W. Harper
... irritably. "You don't care in the least how untidy you make the place look. I wonder you aren't ashamed for anyone to come here." She did not see, nor would she have cared if she had seen, the quivering of Debby's lips, the hurt feeling in ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... Tom to come," cried the old gentleman, irritably. "Who said I wanted him to come? Hey?" He turned up his head and looked at her, and Polly's hand shook worse than ever when the little snapping eyes were full on her face, and she had all she could do to keep from running out of the room and up on deck where ...
— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney
... love. She was hard, but she was soft. She was cold, but she was warm. And as each day she used the sewing machine or roughly stitched the raw material for Miss Jubb's costumes, Sally always looked to the nights. When it rained, and she had to stay indoors, she chafed irritably and went early to bed. When she met Toby she was full of unwonted high spirits. For a long time she did not know what had happened to her. Then at last the truth flashed out one morning as she lay in bed, and with a little ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton
... the stranger irritably. "Let me alone. I've got a lot to say." She turned her eyes on Buntingford. "Do ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the devil is it?" he said irritably. "I haven't any time to waste over you. What ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... lie would you call this?" he demanded irritably. "It makes me crazy; everybody with a mental image of me leaning over the parapet of the roof, waving a board, with the rest of you sitting on my legs to keep ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... go to him!" Mr. Blumentein declared irritably. "We have nothing to conceal here! All that we desire is to be left alone by guests whose conduct about the place is discreditable. Good ...
— The Great Secret • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... then," was her next thought, as she again dropped her eyes before his. But all good-looking men were called handsome, and that term, too, displeased her. But whatever it was, he was good to see, and she was irritably aware of a desire to look ...
— The Game • Jack London
... Indian woman, indicating a great jar of water. She quickly filled one of those quaint bowls, or cups, of the Cherokee manufacture, and advanced with it to Otasite; but the proffer was in the nature of an interruption of his troubled thoughts, and he irritably waved her away. ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock
... 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 ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... surprised. I never thought it had a market value. I told you so in the beginning," I said, irritably. "But what on earth have you done ...
— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung
... your 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 ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... ain't pore," Briskow said, irritably. "Not now he ain't. I says it's his deal an' his money, an' we got plenty. ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... is this woman they call the 'Queen'?" said Calton, irritably. "She seems to be at the bottom of the whole affair—every path we take leads ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... forget about ghosts for five minutes?" she asked rather irritably, for she was tired after the long day's trip. "Just when I'm beginning ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler
... 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 ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... at 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 your ...
— The Yellow Crayon • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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 one so pleased! But there must always be something wrong, so let that be appeased ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell
... you to say "poor" granny,' said Frances, rather irritably. 'Say "dear" granny. And Jacinth, whether it's true or not that in some ways we were rather spoilt and—and—not methodical and all that, at Stannesley, I wish you'd never say it to Aunt Alison. She's quite ready enough to be down on ...
— Robin Redbreast - A Story for Girls • Mary Louisa Molesworth
... one else in this condemned burg can pull teeth?" he demanded irritably of the bartender at ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... your great-grandmother or anybody else, so do stop chattering, Jack, and for goodness' sake let me hear that song," said McAllister irritably. ...
— Marie Gourdon - A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence • Maud Ogilvy
... face the fact that you're going to be ill, Marcella?" he said, irritably. "You'll have to lie down for hours and all sorts of things. You're a lick to me—abso-bally-lutely! You ought not to be well like this! Lord, the things I've been told about women having babies! They simply get down to it—all except the unrefined ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... "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 their woodcraft's ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... to heroines, let us make a volte face. There is an old story of the lady who wrote rather irritably to Thackeray, asking, curtly, why all the good women he created were fools and the bright women all bad. "The same complaint," he answered, "has been made, Madame, of God and Shakespeare, and as neither has given explanation I can not presume to attempt one." ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison
... discouraging sort of person," the Colonel declared irritably. "I suppose you'll tell me now that I can't log my timber ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... said," returned the Tinker, rather irritably,—"him as was here just now, 'this what you're a laying on, mate, is Tom Tiddler's ground. And if you want to see Tom,' he says, 'you must go in at that gate.' The man come out at that gate himself, and ...
— Tom Tiddler's Ground • Charles Dickens
... get here? And who the devil are you?" demanded the guiding genius of The Searchlight, looking up irritably. He raised his voice. "Con!" ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... 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 and made ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... here?" she said a little irritably; then, hearing his humble answer that he had just come to enjoy the view, felt ashamed of herself, and tried ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... to a bowl of flowers on a table by her side, and she plucked a petal at 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 ...
— Princess Maritza • Percy Brebner
... replied irritably, "and I care nothing for his damned swamps full of briers and mud ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers
... Jerry, irritably, as he drove the bristles of one brush among the bristles of the other; "it's not that sort of trouble. ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn
... 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 can't ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the drawing-room—and suddenly checked herself with a start. "Good Heavens!" she exclaimed irritably, "how you frightened me! Why was I not ...
— My Lady's Money • Wilkie Collins
... irritably, for him, and Hen, having had this subject up more than once before, desisted and turned ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... Langlois looked at her companion in merchanting irritably, then she remembered that Virginie Poucette was a stranger, in a way, and was therefore deserving of pity, and she said with compassionate patronage: "Newcomer you—I'd forgotten. Look you then, the Spanische was the wife of my third cousin, ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... "Well," said he irritably, "I don't like such escapades; and Emily, if anything of the kind happens again, I'll have to take you to a ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... irritably among his cushions, trying to arrange them more comfortably. This infernal pain! It was to be hoped Nixon would be able to do more for it than that ass, the Dunscombe doctor. Marsham thought, with resentment, of all his futile drugs and ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... accuse you of no crime!" he said irritably. "As individuals and as a group, your intention from the beginning has been to prevent the crime against the Federation from being committed. The Great Satogs simply did too good a job. You have been given the most searching physical examinations possible. ...
— The Other Likeness • James H. Schmitz |
