And Agatha's health is not good, so that she is a trifle irritable at times.

He was, it is true, far from popular, was cold and severe in manners, and irritable in temperament; but he was public-spirited, patriotic, incorruptible, lofty in sentiment, and unstained by vices.

I'm as irritable as the devil and as nervous as a cat, and I can't get a decent night's rest.

But you're more nervous and irritable than usual, I'll admit, and I fear this invasion of your nieces won't be good for you.

But towards an inanimate chattel even the most irritable of sane men can feel nothing like rage.

Mr. Robertson's early experience had made him suspicious and irritable about dogma as such; and he prided himself on being able to dispense with it, while at the same time preserving the principle and inner truth which it was intended to convey.

You yourselves are aware that I am not irritable by nature and that I have done, subject to human limitations, all the acts proper for a good lawgiver.

After a little they became irritable toward one another.

It was for her daughters that she had grown thin and haggard and irritable under the persistent reverses of fortune; it was for them that she was sinking the Grimkie independence in the match-making mother.

For the first time in her knowledge of him the captain got irritable with her.

"The teacher is angry to-day," "The teacher is irritable to-day," "The teacher is short-tempered to-day," are phrases too often on the lips of boys, and they produce a feeling of discomfort in the class-room that makes harmony and ease impossible.

But I also observe, that, when the placid hour has passed away, his nervous system is more susceptible, his hand more tremulous, his temper more irritable on slight occasions, than during the days when the comfortable pipe chances to be omitted.

Was it likely that the fortress would hold out long, or that the maiden's heart would prove to be more obdurate than Danäe's? Soane, considering these things and his self-denial, grew irritable over his Chambertin.

The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands; the brave and bold from love of honourable danger in a generous cause.