Smarting under the effects, I investigated not the cause, and I attributed to irascibility and vindictiveness what had a deeper and more dangerous origin.
He manifested under it the irascibility of a man not simply thin-skinned, but of one whose skin was raw.
Aristoxenus really said about the irascibility of Sokratês; while the expressions of Fragm.
These are the intellectual faculties, which, though they are far below the pure Intelligences, have an instinctive desire to shake off the yoke of irascibility and concupiscence.
The bad companions of man which hinder his intellectual progress are unregulated imagination, irascibility and carnal concupiscence.
But, as he might have known, if his irascibility had allowed him to weigh the pros and cons of the situation, his 'authority' was of no avail.
The irascibilityof Pope too strongly authenticated one of the three authors.
The irascibility of Middleton, disguising itself in a literary form, was still more manifested by a fact recorded of him by Bishop Newton.
Sudden irascibility showed in the old Italian's face and manner; a flush swept his cheeks under the white beard, the black eyes grew lusterless and hard--and he coughed.
Nicolo Capriano's convenient irascibility was instantly at his command again.
He found the old absorption to have grown intractable, and the creak of Mariana's rocker, or the low humming of her voice, was sufficient to surprise in him that repressed irascibility from which he had never been able to shake himself free.
For an instant his natural irascibility of temper seemed to have overborne the bounds of his reserve.