"If gratitude irks you, sir, what would you have?" "All," I cried; "and yet, Heaven knows, I am not worth it.

Nay, be advised: No hardship irks the lady, save to sit At home and feed her sparrows; nor no worse Annoy than from her balcony to spy (Should the eye rove) a Switzer of the Guard At post between her raspberry-canes, to watch

it irks me whilst I write!

It irks me to think, that, stript of thy regalities, thou shouldst ferry over, a poor forked shade, in crazy Stygian wherry.

None of us, however, were much in the style of the "melancholy Jacques," or, with our eyes on some vigorous fisherman higher up the river, we might have begun: "And yet it irks us, these bright speckled trout, Being native swimmers in this river, should From their own limpid pools, by gay, false flies Be cruelly decoyed.

It irks me to have cowards in the senate!

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.

Even in the noble poem Rabbi Ben Ezra, this jolting line appears: "Irks care the crop-full bird?

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.

Now, it irks me to be the cause of so much trouble, seeing that I am the only traveller in the house.

It irks her to think of the others, young women, ay ...

"It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not at least stand on the scaffold by her side.

" I had lost patience with the man, partly because it irks me to have strangers take liberties with my person, and also because I had reached the conclusion that he was simply a shallow dissembler and rascal.

It irks me now.

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."

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.

And,' she added musingly, 'the thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all.

It irks him sair.

dame, I had much rather you had been elsewhere than here; but you pray me such prayers that I dare not refuse you, and though it irks me much to do so, there!

I would not "pick bad from bad," but it irks one's spirit to see these miscreants making "assurance doubly sure," and providing for their own safety with such solicitude, after sacrificing, without remorse, whatever was most interesting or respectable in the country.

I would not "pick bad from bad," but it irks one's spirit to see these miscreants making "assurance doubly sure," and providing for their own safety with such solicitude, after sacrificing, without remorse, whatever was most interesting or respectable in the country.

Of course, these things are my prerogative, and a man born to them may not forego what is due to his birth even though it irks him.

"That you are acting wisely I am truly convinced, Señor Allen, though it irks me to say that it is so.