1 "It was a small estate that brought in no profit," replied Prince Andrew, trying to extenuate his action so as not to irritate the old man uselessly.
2 She knew that her going in during the night at an unusual hour would irritate him.
3 This legitimate peculiarity of each individual which used to excite and irritate Pierre now became a basis of the sympathy he felt for, and the interest he took in, other people.
4 You should be careful not to irritate her, James.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN 5 The shrug and the smile did not irritate Levin.
6 Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me afresh by some mistrustful scruple.
7 Today, however, her chirping enthusiasms did not irritate Lily.
8 He went on with tender feeling: "It is a thing I am not at all too proud to do, and only a fear that I might irritate her has kept me away so long."
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 9 I sat staring at the clock for some time and, when its ticking began to irritate me, I left the room.
10 My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions.
11 "I arrived at five o'clock as you told me yesterday," I answered aloud, with an irritability that threatened an explosion.
12 This irritability is, as you know, chiefly directed to political questions.
13 To her consternation she detected in herself in relation to little Nicholas some symptoms of her father's irritability.
14 But what distressed the princess most of all was her father's irritability, which was always directed against her and had of late amounted to cruelty.
15 Her melancholy, however, began to turn to irritability, and not long before Boris' departure she formed a definite plan of action.