A harsh, abrupt, and dislocated manner irritates and perplexes him by its sudden jerks.

A grain of sand gets between the folds of the oyster and its shell and irritates the beast.

In the beginning of a cold in the head, for instance, the cold air irritates the inflamed mucous membrane of the nose, and causes repeated attacks of sneezing.

It irritates and dries the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, producing an unnatural thirst which becomes an enticement to the use of intoxicating liquors.

Take as an example the case of a child who has eaten improper food, which irritates its bowels.

Thus, if anything irritates the eyelids, the sensory nerves are stimulated and the impression is carried to the brain.

The irritating smoke filling all the inner cavity of the mouth and throat, readily finds its way up the Eustachian tube, dries the membrane, and irritates or inflames the delicate mechanism of the inner ear.

An excess of this secretion forms a thick, tenacious mass of mucus, which irritates the passages and gives rise to efforts of hawking and coughing to get rid of it.

When then a man irritates you, you must know that it is your own opinion which has irritated you.

This irritates the teamster, and he is compelled to run up and catch the wheel-mules by the head, to make them stop, so that he can lock his wheels.

Now it is just possible you may have heard of a complaint of the eyes called Ophthalmia, which comes on sometimes in very hot countries, India for instance; and sometimes in travelling across the deserts of Arabia, where the sand gets into the eyes, and irritates them very much; it can very often be cured, but not always, and when it cannot, it ends in blindness.

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.

Ludovico now irritates Colonna by talking of the king's amour, and induces him to invite the king to a banquet and then murder him.

No Englishman is stirred by the name 'British,' the name 'English' irritates all Scotchmen, and the Irish are irritated by both alike.

"I generally admire persistency," remarked Mr. Clark one day to Mrs. Smith and Dorothy, and the Ethels, "but in this case it irritates me.

This irritates my vanity, and makes me feel angry with Aniela.

To write about it irritates my nerves,therefore, enough!

It still irritates me when I think of it.

This irritated me, for at present everything irritates me.

Kromitzki's departure was a great relief to me, to Pani Celina,whom he irritates to such a degree that if he were not her son-in-law she could not stand him at all,and perhaps also to Aniela.

I am afraid that what irritates me in his treatment of these subjects is his cool and sensible indifference to them.

The influence of France, and of Paris in particular, on the tastes of the Continent, irritates him.

The subject always irritates me like prickly heat.

"The man irritates me, I confess," said Mr. Drake.

It irritates and vexes X. who torments himself with the idea that a mere trader is usurping the crown.