Irritated

Examples

• He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. Plato. The Republic.
• That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit's fate. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The cool contempt of her manner irritated me into directly avowing that the purpose of my visit had not been answered yet. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He found he could not be useful, and his feelings were too much irritated for talking. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Nobody could have browbeaten her, none irritated her nerves, exhausted her patience, or over-reached her astuteness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In the irritated state of my curiosity, at that moment, I laid aside the second sheet of paper in despair. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I often saw him hard-worked, yet seldom over-driven, and never irritated, confused, or oppressed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It irritated him bitterly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was not angry, not irritated; I perceived that, and took heart. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Birkin, who was watching him, was irritated by his duality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She had been all animation with the game, and irritated pride did not lower the expression of her haughty lineaments. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This at once irritated her and saved her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• To my surprise I found him alone; restlessly pacing his room, and a little irritated at being left by himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And this particular reproof irritated him more than any other. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yet I do feel irritated against Lady Berwick I confess it: but it is for her slights, or what I fancy was her neglect of my dear departed mother. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He was irritated and weary of having a telling way of putting things. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• My good old servant, knowing well how contradiction always irritated me, sent my housemaid to undress me, and hastened to obey my commands. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This was an assumption of a sort of intimacy that irritated Gudrun almost like an affront. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But the fact of the world esteeming her father degraded, in its rough wholesale judgment, would have oppressed and irritated Mr. Lennox. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Amy teased Jo, and Jo irritated Amy, and semioccasional explosions occurred, of which both were much ashamed afterward. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Mrs. Yorke was not irritated at the reproof, worded with a severity so simple, dictated by a pride so quiet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Many patricians were growing poor and irritated and unscrupulous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You have sufficient reason, I dare say, said Mr. Jarndyce, for being chafed and irritated-- There again! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He had calculated on these first objections: he was not irritated by them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The reflection seemed to conjure into sadness his irritated feelings. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Blandois must have irritated him,--made faces at him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Sergeant's digressions irritated me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Yet there were other sayings of theirs, which, when she reached the quiet safety of home, amused her even while they irritated her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He says-- Sir Leicester is so long in taking out his eye-glass and adjusting it that my Lady looks a little irritated. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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