On getting back to the fire, he found the Colonel annoyed at having called "Grub!"

Thus after labouring at Kolobeng for ten years the Boers, annoyed with him for endeavouring to teach them that the natives should be treated with kindness and consideration, made an attack on his house when he was absent.

Though this state of things was very annoying to me, it proved advantageous in one respect, as it made me more diligent in my studies, lest I should furnish my rival with an occasion of triumphing ever me; so that I owe a part of what I gained to the enmity of my rival.

"At home, in the streets of London, I have been rudely spoken to; I have been greatly annoyed in Paris; in New York I have been subject to humorous impertinence; but in the great North-West every man has seemed to be my friend.

On the other hand, when I was in Santa Rosa in 1915 some one had a tame vicuña which was perfectly willing to sneeze straight at any stranger who came within twenty feet of it, even if one's motive was nothing more annoying than scientific curiosity.

V.When the emperor Charles V. was one day walking in the neighbourhood of Vienna, full of pious considerations, engendered by the thoughts of the Dominican cloister he was about to visit, he was much annoyed by the noise of a pig, which a country youth was carrying a little way before him.

That was annoying for the German recruiting agents, but it suited well enough the Pan-Turkish ideal of exterminating foreign nationalities.

Practically it will matter very little whether this belief shall be well founded or not, so long as English ministers, whether from want of judgment or from any other cause, shall omit no occasion for the insulting and annoying of the United States.

These men are annoying in themselves, and still worse because they throw discredit on the noble and unselfish reformers with whom they are identified in position.

It is very annoying at times, if you are in a hurry, and particularly want a direct answer to a plain question, to hear the old old story, 'I am a poor man,' but there is nothing for it but patience.

" "Let him alone, Caddy," gently interposed Esther; "it is bad enough to be compelled to live in a house with that frightful old woman, without being annoyed about it beforehand.

With themto say nothing of torpedoes and submarine navigationwe need never more be blockaded and annoyed as formerly.

Yet the fact of a young man finding a young woman brutally annoyed on the roof of the world, five or six miles from a settlementwell, it was a fact.

"The sunset would have been worth seeing from that top window," Morriston said, evidently perplexed and annoyed over the mystery of the locked door.

Its sting is hardly so annoying as that of the mosquito, but near the base of its proboscis is a little bag containing the fatal poison.

"By Jove, Evelyn, it's most annoying about that confounded Shaw chap," he remarked to his wife as he mounted the broad steps leading to the gallery half an hour later, walking with the primness which suggests pain.

Mrs. Browne was perplexed and annoyed beyond measure.

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

And there's a violence and uncertainty about her movements which is annoying beyond anything you can imagine.

Although I did not wear anything but the isar, I was never annoyed out of doors.

Although the passage up the river was tedious and annoying from the adverse and squally wind that prevailed throughout the day, we were almost repaid for the delay by the scenery each tack brought to our view, and to which the remembered aspect of the shores we had so recently quitted, seemed by contrast to add a yet more delightful verdure.

From what your brother told us" "Oh, no," she interrupted, "I can't say he has annoyed mefrom his point of view."

Undoubtedly he had ordered her about, but in so doing had he not been making half-pathetic sport of his old selfand was it with him that she was annoyed for ordering, or with herself for obeying?

The clergyman had been annoyed during the course of his sermon by the restlessness and occasional whining of a dog, which at last began to bark outright.

cheare you your heavy spright, And chaunge old yeares annoy to new delight.