Remember, in all the petty irritations of the past, when you have been hurt by your neighbors, you were never so triumphant as when you surprised those who injured you by a magnanimous return" "There, I made an agreement with you that we should not speak of these things.

"See here, honey," he said with a tinge of irritation in his tones.

In his sense of irritation at a conscientious duty to perform and no clear notion of how to discharge it, he made believe it was the difficulty in finding the rubber sheet he didn't want that made him out of sorts.

The way a man spat, or ate, or slept, or even breathed became a cause of irritation to every other member of the company.

A short occupation causes more irritation on account of its arbitrary limit; everyone understands an occupation without other limit than the complete carrying out of the treaty.

The doctor felt an impulse of irritation against the absent mother who let the girl outwear her strength.

Their irritation toward the men temporarily in power and their liking for the weaker side made them attempt to overthrow the former.

I forgot my old clothes and my uncouth looks; I forgot, too, my irritation with the brocaded gentleman.

Thus this point of difference also remained open, as a source of irritation between the two churches.

In the year 1792, the news of the rescinding of the decree as now stated, produced, when it reached St. Domingo, as much irritation among the People of Colour, as the news of the passing of it had done among the Whites, and hostilities were renewed between them, so that new battles, massacres, and burnings, took place.

The woman stands up, with no more irritation than a butler; the man sits down, with no more embarrassment than a guest.

The irritation amongst the crusaders was extreme.

But, as a general rule, the teeth are the primary cause of much of the child's sufferings, in consequence of the state of nervous and functional irritation into which the system is thrown by their formation and progress out of the jaw and through the gums.

She thanked him with another of her comfortable, sensible smilesa smile that took all embarrassment out of the dilemma, as balm will take irritation from a wound.

One feels ashamed of cowardice and petty irritation after witnessing the steady courage of this man.

Undine, at the outset, had been sorry for the friend whose new venture seemed likely to result so much less brilliantly than her own; but compassion had been replaced by irritation as Mabel's unpruned vulgarities, her enormous encroaching satisfaction with herself and her surroundings, began to pervade every corner of their provisional household.

The first steps, therefore, to be adopted are, to remove or correct the exciting causethe mother's milk or food; allay irritation by a warm bath and the castor-oil mixture, followed by and conjoined with the powders. 2532.

In a few days the irritation due to the webs would disappear and the leg muscles brought into service by this new and steady shuffle would harden and grow fit.

" Fullaway, who had been manifesting signs of impatience and irritation during the last few minutes, here snapped out a question.

But since the work-a-day world, outside the home, is usually filled with irritations for a busy man, it should be a wife's desire to make his home-coming a season of anticipation and joy.

Or he would say: "There is a note of personal irritation about that; it sounds as if you had been reading an unpleasant review.

He tried to keep his irritation out of his voice, but there must have been enough to betray him.

I fear I betrayed my irritation over Meeker's reading the address.

Calculation caused them to place more dependence on the unknown than on the evident; for while the latter had aroused irritation through the dealings already had with it, the former afforded good hope, because its actions were as yet only matters of expectation.