Their irritation with him was merely a surface vexation, which had no real foundation in a deep principle.

'I tell you, sir, it is a street with a very odd name!' 'Bless me, is it Queen Street?' Irritation on the part of the old gentleman.

It is quite possible that he had not seen where he was going, but his frequent irritation was the sign of his distress.

During teething the mother must be especially watchful, for it is at this time that the disease so commonly appears; the irritation produced by this process being a frequent exciting cause.

Irritation is the root of all evil; and there is nothing more irritating than to hear the truth about one's self.

And, especially towards the end of his life when his powers perhaps were weakening, the devices which he used to arouse the irritation of his contemporaries became more and more childishly artificial, less and less effective.