66 examples of irk in sentences

The notion irked her pride, that her name should ever be brought into the brawls of men.

It was the routine, the dull, common routine, of Laburnum Villa which irked so badly.

She had neither means nor friends, and she was much too thoroughly conversant with the common way of the world with a woman alone to imagine that, by taking her life in her own hands, she would accomplish much more than exchange the irk of the frying pan for the fury of the fire.

She, however, whether irked by the dulness of the country, or thinking by her presence to guard her husband against those temptations to which he was prone, followed him to the town, where the infant sickened of the epidemic and died.

Certainly the simple life appealed to Lady Mary, but much as she liked Geneva the cost of living irked her.

The delay irked her, and she became somewhat depressed, and said that she was dubious, in her precarious state of health, whether she would arrive at her destination.

At the same time she was but little irked by it, for the reason that her spirit was not one to be unduly affected by exterior social, intellectual, and physical conditions.

And when that I had gone downward for eighteen hours, and eat and drunk thrice, I ceased from my labour, and did feel about in the darkness, that I come to a level place for my rest; and so did find presently, a place not so bad, and did push and cast away such small boulders as had been like to irk me.

And this thing is plain to you, and needing not of many words, which do so irk me.

displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze^, feeze [U.S.]; disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret^, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.

Such traits are not in a historical point of view matters of difference; we recognize in them the stage of intellectual culture which irked these earliest Roman verse-making schoolmasters, and we at the same time perceive that, although Andronicus was born in Tarentum, Greek cannot have been properly his mother-tongue.

Sivert was not upset over the matter, not at all; perhaps, indeed, it might have irked him something more if he really had thrown away five thousand Daler.

It was work that irked him, because he hated doing things over when the first glad joy of inspiration was gone, but he stuck to it.

This element was a conscious aristocracy of its kind, but its members were more or less irked by the knowledge that no matter how great their merits they could not cross the boundary into white society.

What seems to have irked Salgaocar was Sunaparant's highlighting, on its front-page, the news of the nomination of Vasant Pilgaonkar (a family friend and close aide-cum-adviser of Ravi Naik) as the Goa Public Service Commission chief.

The next day, an irked Mr Sinha, who is anyway a man of few words, did not have very pleasant words to say about this.

Especially does this sort of conversation irk me, because it is not fair to the young lady herself.

Ail, irk, and behoove, are regular verbs and transitive; but they are used only in the third person singular: as, "What ails you?""It irks me.""It behooves you."

Even so, the monotony of mere car repairing began to irk him.

Those ways might irk and cramp him sometimes.

By dayby our earthly day, that isthe ghostly vision of the old familiar scenery of Sussexville, all about him, irked and worried him.

The pick and shovel irked his hands as he swung them; his palms began to itch for the weapons that the soldiers bore.

And to-night the wind was southerly, and his old hurts irked him not.

Mr. Portlethorpe had listenedso it seemed to mewith a good deal of irritation and impatience; he was clearly one of those people who do not like interference with what they regard as an established order of things, and it evidently irked him to have any questions raised as to the Carstairs affairswhich, of course, he himself had done much to settle when Sir Gilbert succeeded to the title.

But most, ye helpful angels That send distress and work, Hot task and sweating forehead, To heal man's idle irk, Pity her!

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