136 adjectives to describe impatiences

"Of course it's me!" shouted back Sir Beverley, shaking the door with fierce impatience.

" It all typified the exodus from the country districts towards the towns, the feverish impatience to make a fortune, which was becoming general.

When I said so, however, he answered me with a little impatience, "It does not matter very much about the best light; there will be nobody to see it but you and me.

He spoke with nervous impatience, and no self-restraint.

Finally, good results were anticipated from the Spanish insurrection, which, at the time when Hannibal left Carthage, was at its height.(5) Aetolian Intrigues against Rome While the storm was thus gathering from far and wide against Rome, it was on this, as on all occasions, the Hellenes implicated in the enterprise, who were of the least moment, and yet took action of the greatest importance and with the utmost impatience.

" He shook hands with the purser, waved his hand to us, and joined Grady, who was watching these amenities with evident impatience.

All was bustle and excitement with Uncle John and Tom; and Mr. and Mrs. Lee, though quiet, felt an eager impatience for a sight of their future dwelling-place.

That Colonel Gansevoort and his officers were deeply interested in our recital may be understood by the fact that day had fully come before we were at an end of our stories, and yet never one of them had shown the slightest impatience or a desire to cut us short.

" "Good Lord!" exclaimed Allerdyke, with obvious impatience.

Who'd 'a' judged 'twas a child like that?" "May I beg to know what you refer to, Mr. Buckhurst?" asked Mac, with considerable impatience in his tones.

Listen to this last entry in the journal of Captain Robert Dubarle, the evening before his death in action: "This attack to-morrow, besides the inevitable emotion it rouses in one's thoughts, stirs in me a kind of joyous impatience, and the pride of doing my dutywhich is to fight gladly, and die victorious.

" I paused to think this over; and then a sudden impatience seized me.

"Who is this Mr. Powis?" asked Mrs. Bloomfield of Eve, when the latter appeared in her dressing-room, with an unusual impatience of manner.

Ever and ever, as I proceeded on my way, the sense of haste and restless impatience grew upon me, so that I felt myself incapable of remaining long in a place, and my desire grew stronger to hasten on and on; but when I entered the gates of the city this longing vanished from my mind.

"' 'Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley's Cleone a Tragedy[70], to him, not aware of his extreme impatience to be read to.

And so, mistress, you will perceive that I am speaking but in your own interests...." Editha, who had listened to the long tirade with marked impatience, here interrupted the voluble lady, with harsh command.

Thousands of times he could have sworn that he felt the admonitory sting; thousands of times he turned the trinket round and round with desperate impatience; but Aurelia's form remained as invisible, her thoughts as inscrutable, as before.

With some difficulty they succeeded in reviving her, and on recovering her senses, she instantly exclaimed, in a tone of terror rather than mere impatience: "Wine!

Julia sighed with an impatience not sensibly less sharp for her having so quickly scented some lion in her path.

Aylmer replied, with boyish impatience.

Poppaea's arrowy sarcasms, her contemptuous impatience and adroit tact are admirable.

This shewed a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, considering our disagreeable ride.

"I hardly know what swelled in my breast as I read her letter: such a vehement impatience of restraint and steady work; such a strong wish for wingswings such as wealth can furnish; such an urgent desire to see, to know, to learn; something internal seemed to expand bodily for a minute.

With intense impatience she had awaited the appearance of Cicely from the doctor's office; and, having drawn her to one side, she hastily imparted her sentiments.

Although she was aware of the hardships and perils that would attend her flight, yet the thought of again meeting her friends was enough to nerve her for the undertaking, and she waited with anxious impatience the coming of her rescuer.

136 adjectives to describe  impatiences