During her absence Jamie arrived at the house, ravenous with hunger, and he was so impatient that he could not wait until his mother returned, so he broke open the door.
He had not quite recovered from his chagrin at the interruption of his talk with Alma--a foolishness which made him impatient with himself.
Impatient with what he thought the slow progress of the vehicle, Hugh sat with his body bent forward, straining as did the horse, on which his eyes were fixed, and perspiring in the imaginary effort.
The Mad Wolf grew impatient and angry; and at last, seeing that his bounty was not likely to produce the desired return, he resolved to reclaim it.
When we reached the foot of the mountain ridge that lay between us and the village, we were too impatient to take the smooth and circuitous route; so turning short to the left, we drove our wearied animals directly upward among the rocks.
As soon as it was finished Miss Flint put the room in order for the night, while Hilda returned to her chair and watched her quick, impatient movements.
She was too impatient and irritable to teach her craft to others.
Having drank of immortality all night, the genius enters eagerly upon the day's task, impatient of any impertinences jogging the full glass.
As he put down this letter, Graham heaved a short impatient sigh.
But during the last day or two Graham had become yet more impatient than before, and peremptorily requested another visit from this dilatory confidant.
Still I am beginning to be impatientif time is to be thrown away.
I am impatient till I set out, but I cannot quit Paris without once more seeing Isaura.
The short, bitter, sunless day was advancing towards its decline before Victor roused himself with a quick impatient start from his reverie, and took forth the letter from the dead nun.
She brought with her a little bag which contained some fine clothes for the child, and was very impatient till the child had got them on.
She was of a high impatient spirit: we seem to recognise her in an anecdote told by the Black Laird of Ormistoun, one of Darnley's murderers, in prison before his execution.
Impatient of three days' retarded news, ignorant as to whether Craigmillar is fixed on for Darnley, or not, without a reply to the letter carried to Bothwell by Paris (Letter II.
It was lively, alert, disquieted, and impatient to quit the table.
Thus was secured a number of openings for the impatient buzzing crowd, which might go in and out as usual, with no other difficulty than that of moving in a slightly zigzag fashion.
He led her through the slowly moving impact of people, impatient until he might get her beyond and to himself.
Go on," Jarvis commanded with that impatient curtness that is the best assurance of interest.
They were hands impatient of detail, eager to grasp at the garment of great achievement, resentful of the slower process of accomplishment.
A short, ruddy man in long overcoat entered and cast impatient eyes about the room for a seat.
He quickened his gait, impatient of any distracting element, and was instantly aware that the other footsteps had quickened theirs.
The ghastly notoriety which he had striven, with the difficult patience of the impatient temperament, to avoid, had struck him with the force of a bomb and blown him skyward to be the cynosure of every eye.
Walking with noisy, impatient tread, he ascended the stairs, taking the left flight on the landing, and snapping on the light in the upper hall.
To all these leads his fraternity brother made brief, almost impatient response.
His quick, impatient fingers groped along the wall, found the switch-button, and pressed it.
You had originally a splendid initiative, an impatient desire for action.
His hands, those hands so impatient of delay, were clenched till the knuckles showed through the drawn skin like knobs of ivory.
What object lessons some lives on the Continent would be to impatient souls at home, who feel discontented with their surroundings, and anxious to break away and wander abroad!
Miss Arbuckle, adding, impatientof Amanda's grin: "Be quick about it.
No," said Billie, trying not to sound as impatient as she felt, while Laura and Vi frowned openly.
At this moment, as though she felt the eyes of the girls upon her, she flung the untidy hair back with an impatient movement.
Don't stand there grinning like an ape," she commanded, with an impatient stamp of her foot.
We were impatient to be at the front, but we realized by this time that Lord Kitchener was serious in his demand that the men of the new armies be efficiently trained.
Although Tommy was impatient with his prudent enemy and sang songs, twitting him about always keeping under cover, he did not usually forget, in the daytime at least, to make his own observations of the German line with caution.
After leading his impatient army a quarter of a mile away from the really promising heavy timber, Turk discovered what he was after, and that was a little muddy puddle.
XXII The Coon Hunt Yan did not forget the proposed Coon hunt--in fact, he was most impatient for it, and within two days the boys came to Caleb about sundown and reminded him of his promise.
She seemed impatient to resume work; he went reluctantly away.
She flinched, controlled herself, made an impatient gesture.
Along the hall from the foot of the stairs sounded Richard's imperious, impatient voice.
But her impatient heart was always far ahead, fretting at their laggard pace.
The birds, impatient at winter's reluctant leave-taking, had arrived before the young leaves were far enough advanced to cover them.
At this moment Elizabeth's impatient voice was heard, and Jack and Donald went back to her, but not before Donald had made up his mind to investigate the mysterious path pointed out to him.
She was never impatient with Olive, as she sometimes was with Jean; and, besides, she had about finished dressing and the reflection in the glass was gratifying.
Jack was already much better and able to sit up with something to act as a brace behind her; she had more color and was beginning to be her old impatient self.
Who is so impatient that he cannot wait a seasonable time for the door to be opened?
When urged about the house and grounds for the vampyre, they became impatient and angry at not finding him.
This was signal enough, and the house was at once entered, and beset on all sides by the mob, who came impatient of obtaining their victim who had so often baffled them.
As impatient as mobs usually are, they had not time, in this case, for the exercise of that quality of mind before the boy came back with the necessary means of exerting quite a different species of power against the butcher's coffin.
George, who was now perhaps a little amused at the conduct of the impatient visitors.
It makes oneimpatient and angry to reflect upon such a state of things.
I was naturally impatient for some result," he continued, when his face became once more visible.
Eagerly impatient to know why she had been summoned, she stood before her parents, so young and frail that the mother's heart rebelled at having to tell her the cruel news.
No answer came, and an impatient cavalier himself ran to summon her.
Jack Raymond, who had remained standing in impatient hesitation between his politeness and his desire to escape as soon as possible, stared at her.
The straining of the long brown fingers, tense in their effort to keep back tears, the long-drawn breath trying to keep back sobs, made Jack Raymond's pity fly before impatient contempt.
This was none of the Bishop of Rochester's work, who knew nothing of Mr. Layer, and of what was later plotted by bold and impatient spirits.
The man had grown impatient and so had climbed on to the railings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impatient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
