1642 examples of irritated in sentences

He had irritated powerful interests on all sides, from the army to the licensed victuallers.

From the numerous expletives which abound in Scott's letters, such as are not now considered in good taste among gentlemen, I infer that like most gentlemen of his social standing in those times he was in the habit of using, when highly excited or irritated, what is called profane language.

I look upon those years at Craigenputtock as the brightest and healthiest of his life, removed as he was from the sight of levities and follies which tormented his soul and irritated his temper.

XXVIII.The people of Brundusium, irritated by the insolence of Pompey's soldiers, and the insults received from Pompey himself, were in favour of Caesar's party.

For Caesar had given Trebonius strict charge not to suffer the town to be taken by storm, lest the soldiers, too much irritated both by abhorrence of their revolt, by the contempt shown to them, and by their long labour, should put to the sword all the grown-up inhabitants, as they threatened to do.

Such was the petulant impatience of Osborne, during the progress of this irksome task, that Johnson was once irritated so far as to beat him.

She had locked the door and switched off the light, for it irritated her.

Man was surrounded by a mediumnaturewhich irritated by perpetual contact the sensitive extremities of the nerves.

If a young leaf stalk of Clematis be rubbed for a few moments, especially on the under side, it will be found in a day or two to be turned inward, and the tendrils of the Cucumber vine will coil in a few minutes after being thus irritated.

The wasps, driven off for a moment, became only the more irritated, and returned with vigor and wonderful pertinacity to the attack,beginning to sting the poor animal furiously in all the tender parts.

They entertained an almost certain hope that the Romans would no more fight with them than they had with the Aequans; that even some more serious attempt was not to be despaired of, considering the sorely irritated state of their feelings, and the critical condition of affairs.

By this proceeding he rather irritated than intimidated his violent temper: so much the more vigorously did he oppose the law, harass the commons, and persecute the tribunes, as if in a regular war.

Very early indeed Nero began to be galled and irritated by the insatiate assumption and swollen authority of "the best of mothers."

This stupid heroic resignation irritated Clerambault profoundly.

" "Ho, will they?" said the irritated Mr. Wilks; "they'd better not let me catch 'em at it, that's all.

"And don't you cough at me," said the irritated Mr. Silk, "because it won't do no good.

That gentleman, however, was out, and Mr. Nugent, somewhat irritated at such thoughtlessness, stood in the road wondering where to go next.

There was a twinkle in the shipbroker's eyes which irritated him almost beyond endurance, and in the doorway Mr. Kybirdhis face mottled with the intensity of his emotionsstood an unwelcome and frantic witness of his shame.

It irritated her.

For this reason, notwithstanding a just resentment irritated them, they determined that Gaul should be passed over for that year.

Disguised with Huitzilopochtli, he irritated the people until they stoned the brother gods to death, and from the corrupting bodies spread a pestilential odor, to which crowds of the Toltecs fell victims.

I think you have saved his life!" There was a sort of inoffensive motherliness in her tone which surprised Veronicaa suggestion of possession that irritated her.

"You are very wise for your age, my dear child!" answered the Duchessa, in the motherly tone that irritated Veronica.

But the silence irritated Hermiathe wrapt, absorbed attitudes of the man and the woman and the air of sacro-sanctity which pervaded the place.

So as nobody seemed so willing to own Cecil's claims to county supremacy as Lady Tyrrell, her bias was all towards Sirenwood; and whereas such practices as prevailed at Dunstone evidently were viewed as obsolete and narrow by these new friends, Cecil was willing to prove herself superior to them, and was far more irritated than convinced when her husband appealed to her former habits.

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