However, I had a fixed resolution, which I inflexibly maintained, never to reply to any body; and not being very irascible in my temper, I have easily kept myself clear of all literary squabbles.

'At last, Sir, Graham, having now got to about the pitch of looking at one man, and talking to another, said Doctor, &c.' 'What effect (Dr. Johnson used to add) this had on Goldsmith, who was as irascible as a hornet, may be easily conceived.'

"And then," read the Recording Angel, with a smile that set us all agog, "one day, when he was a little irascible from over-eating, he" "Oh, not that," cried the Wicked Man, "nobody knew of that.

They are less irascible than many other nations; but when grossly injured, seek revenge in assassination.

Although his natural disposition was to be domineering to inferiors and irascible under the small provocations of life, he now gave his orders in a gentle tone, never stormed at the drivers for their blunders, made light of the bad cooking, and was in short a model for travellers, lovers, and husbands.