He seemed rather peeved with you this afternoon.

I suspect that she'll be pretty peeved when she does find me.

"I thought you might have been a trifle peeved," I said.

"Peeved?" "By Gussie's manoeuvres on the platform this afternoon.

What was there to be peeved about?

Besides, I couldn't be peeved at anything tonight.

Instead of which, the Bassett was one of the group which included Aunt Dahlia and Uncle Tom and seemed to be busy trying to make Anatole see the bright side, while Angela and Gussie were, respectively, leaning against the sundial with a peeved look and sitting on the grass rubbing a barked shin.

"Bart ain't a killer," said Dan, and the gentleness of his voice was oil on troubled waters, "but he gets peeved when a stranger comes nigh to the hoss.

You don't figger to be peeved at me, do you?" The laughter changed to a veritable yell of delight.

"No, kid," he answered, "if I was peeved at you, you'd learn it without askin' questions.

" "You're a little peeved, ain't you Lee?" grinned Buck.

" "Not that I swear myselfnot out loud, anyway, but sometimes, when I'm right peeved at Gerald or Naomi or somebody, I get in my room and say swear-words right out loud.

she wasn't, and when I asked her was she, she got real peeved at me.

that's when she got peeved.

"At last one of Sandy's fists grazed him on the shoulder and sort of peeved him, it looked like.

"You'd peeve a mule.

Where's the hoss he started out to rustle?" "Kind of peeved, Nash, eh?" One step more he made, towering above her.

"Legend or no legend, don Rafael," the recluse grumbled, somewhat peeved, "that's what my grandfather and all the folk of his day used to say; and that's what people still believe.

The femur (left) and the metatarsal; the peeve (or pet peeve); the male and female tryst.

The femur (left) and the metatarsal; the peeve (or pet peeve); the male and female tryst.

Say, I'm going to get peeved in a minute.

"A trifle peeved, aren't you?"

" "I don't foller your words," said the cattleman, "but from the drift of your tune I gather you're a bit peeved; and if you are" His voice had risen to a ringing note as he proceeded and he now slipped from his chair and faced Randall Byrne, a big man, brown, hard-handed.

" "A bit peeved, doc?" queried the old man.

"Didn't I tell ye the fire department was comin"?" "Wall, consarn ye," said the peeved farmer, "I did git outer the way for th' fire department.