" "I don't think Avery would forget us if she became a royal princess," said Mrs. Lorimer, with a confidence that Miss Whalley found peculiarly irritating.

Italians have so much natural tact, in discussing difficult questions, never irritate people unnecessarily.

The conflict could not in any event have been delayed long; the frontiersmen were too deeply and too justly irritated.

The king, when he heard of what she had done, was exceedingly irritated, thinking that her affections were placed on a beggar, or some nameless stranger of no birth or fortune, and his first impulse was to have her put to death.

This reminiscence always irritated him exceedingly.

Is it not then incumbent on thee to fulfil thy promise?" Gushtásp replied: "Do not be impatientthe throne is thine;" but he was deeply irritated at heart on being thus reproached by his own son.

At this event, of which she was acutely conscious and at which she was intensely irritated, she drew herself up, with an attempt to return to her strictly professional manner.

At the bottom of his heart Colonel Musgrave was a trifle irritated that his self-sacrifice should be thus unrewarded by martyrdom.

Some day, and I pray that it may be soon, both sides will be dead of their wounds, and there will arise in Scotland men who will preach peace and tolerance, and heal the grievously irritated sores of this land.

It is interesting, however, to note that intensely irritating and caustic applications have been greatly in favour.

" Patricia was not unnaturally irritated.

These children had irritated him terribly with their Småland.

She goes back right off to De Lancey Street, where she belongs," said the first stranger, plainly irritated.

It did not merely irritate and depress him, as it does everybody of fine fastidiousness: he hated not only the sight of it, he hated it with a sort of unreasoning vindictiveness.

The learned world has always admitted the usefulness of critical disquisitions, yet he that attempts to show, however modestly, the failures of a celebrated writer, shall surely irritate his admirers, and incur the imputation of envy, captiousness, and malignity.

Granting the number were twice as great, he continued, "would the House believe that there was any man so infatuated, or that the British empire was driven to such straits that for such a paltry consideration as seventeen hundred sailors, his Majesty's government would needlessly irritate the pride of a neutral nation or violate that justice which was due to one country from another?"

She shuffled forward, in the manner which had so oft irritated her lodger.

His nasal toneswhich had a singular knack of irritating her as a rulestruck quite pleasingly on her ear, as a welcome interruption to the conflict of her thoughts.

Pepper and mustard are capable of producing powerfully irritating effects, even when applied to the healthy skin where wholly intact.

This stupid heroic resignation irritated Clerambault profoundly.

Hannibal crosses over from the Hirpini into Samnium; lays waste the territory of Beneventum; takes the town of Telesia; and purposely irritates the dictator, if perchance he could draw him down to a battle on the plain, exasperated by so many indignities and disasters inflicted on his allies.

But her dominant character was rapidly growing despotic, and it irritated her strangely to want anything which she could not have.

For some time Hilliard had been subconsciously irritated by the divided attention of a player opposite to him across the table.

Phyl Berknowles strongly objects to the intrusion of Richard Pinckney into the glorious muddle of her Irish ménage, and irritates him so successfully that he returns in a considerable tantrum to America, leaving her with some friends in Dublin.

"The constant interventions of England have undoubtedly irritated the public."