My aim was to get Harry's revolver to him before he should have the exasperating surprise of finding Gholson armed, and to contrive a pretext for so doing; and happily a word from the two sisters gave me my cue.
It was this feature of the case which rendered the loss of Donelson so serious and so exasperating to the Confederate Government, as shown in the message of Jefferson Davis.
Not even the exasperating wit of Thaddeus Stevens, or the studied taunts of John Quincy Adams, ever threw the Southern men into such rage as the speeches of Lovejoy.
Jackson's hostility to John Quincy Adams, his exasperating quarrel with Clay, his implacable hatred for Calhoun, all had their origin in events connected with the Florida campaign of 1818.
For several years he had been growing in favor with a powerful element in the Democracy of the free States, and, but for the exasperating quarrel of 1860, he might have been selected as the Presidential candidate of his party.
Mr. Clay's speech was insulting and exasperating to the last degree.
It came at a time when the Administration was sorely pressed and when it could not stand an exasperating division in the North.
While they waited it seemed to them that never before had simple tasks, such as fitting a key into the lock, been performed with such exasperating slowness, and the girls fairly danced with impatience.
She hadn't hoped to do more than frighten her exasperating little neighbor.
Irresistibly attracted, held by an exasperating fascination, neither girl could help waiting for her own special verse.
It was exasperating that Julien should require his services just when it was vitally urgent that he should save Estelle.
Already, in 1277, he had succeeded in so exasperating them that his palace was swept by a howling mob, and he barely escaped with his life.
There were some who took special interest in this theory as to Satan, and as their utterances were peculiarly exasperating to the orthodox, they were designated as a separate sect under the name of Luciferans.
Mrs. Steptoe was a fine study of the effect of exasperatingcircumstances on a somewhat uncertain temper, and Lizarann conceived of the result as a typical aunt.
She replied, with that exasperating placidity she is such a mistress of: 'Possibly some persons acquainted with the whole story might have thought a parade of emotion uncalled for on my part.
Meanwhile the weekly deduction of eighteenpence from his miserable income was an exasperating strain.
His malady obsessed them: it was in the air of the house, omnipresent; it weighed upon them, corroding the nerve and exasperating the spirit.
The moments were intensely painful; the suspense exasperating and excruciating.
He had meant to be a little facetious about the Greek words; but it was the slowly prepared and rather exasperating facetiousness of an ageing man, and he had dropped it listlessly, as though he himself had perceived this.
The day had been interminable, and the evening exasperating in the highest degree.
She was a melancholy wreck of the old cheerful, bustling, exasperating Trimmer; and it was more than we could stand.
But she meant to carry out her resolve, if possible, withoutexasperating him.
From the very first there had been an exasperating fascination in the tricksiness with which she had--not met his advances, but--wheeled away from them.
Ezra Cohen was not clad in the sublime pathos of the martyr, and his taste for money-getting seemed to be favored with that success which has been the most exasperating difference in the greed of Jews during all the ages of their dispersion.
Bunch and Oleson moved with exasperating deliberation and made stupid blunders.
Bowers referred to the exasperatingdemise of the blacksmith.
This was said with the sole purpose of exasperating the warrior, who would thus have been placed at a slight disadvantage; but he was already like a concentrated volcano--calm outwardly, but surcharged with fire and death within.
With an exasperating taunt the chief landed a blow upon the face of his antagonist as he shot by, and, catching him about the shoulder before he could recover, flung him to the ground with great violence, falling heavily upon him.
I was, however, confronted with the task of refuting his arguments: but with exasperating ingenuity, he seemed to have taken the wind out of our sails.
They all exchanged glances in that exasperating way which some people have when they wish to telegraph to each other something which is not precisely flattering to you.
The most exasperating part of it was that I knew what a fright bad temper made of me.
According to a story popularized by the pencil of Frith, Pope at length so far forgot himself as to make a declaration in form, to which she returned no reply but that most exasperating of all replies, ungovernable laughter.
It had been vexatious enough on that account not to be able to boast himself the favoured of the beautiful and opulent Isabella de Susan; it was exasperating to discover now a new and more imperative reason for this odious secrecy.
Richelieu found this attitude singularly exasperating in a King who was temperamentally suspicious.
It is exasperating when you have the coffee ready made, but cannot warm it for want of a small utensil.
