Thence sprang a feverish state of excitement in which the impatient irascible traveller devoted to perdition the railway directors and the steamboat companies and the governments which allowed such intolerable slowness.
But how was it possible for a man of my undecided turn of mind to argue successfully with so irascible a person as the Professor?
He was caught one day in the young lady's room by her father; whereupon the irascible old gentleman pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on the brick pavement below, like Vulcan on the rocks of Lemnos.
I doubt if he will suit the King of Prussia in the long run, for he is vehement, irascible and impetuous, and though the King is angelically good he is very quick tempered.
Lively, impressionable, and even imperious, you are nervous, changeable and irascible under your outward calm, and rather passionate than capable of deep feeling.
Continue to ascribe that to my injustice, or to a worse motive, if a worse you can find, which was the proper fruit of your irascible and vindictive temper.
She thought generously, nobly, ay sublimely of me: while my irascible jealousy, false pride, and vindictive spirit were eager only to find cause of offence!
The irascible fury of the bully rid me of my tormentor; he immediately assaulted Henley, and I hastened away from two beings so almost equally abhorrent, but from causes so opposite.
This put the Lord in a very bad temper; and Moses, who seems to have been much less irascible than Jehovah, "also was displeased.
As irascible tempers do not improve with age, we presume that he is still as peppery as ever.
This inexorably terrible and highly irascible fire is the daughter of Vrihaspati, and is known as Swaha and is present in all matter.
And seeing the irascible ascetic arrived, Duryodhana and his brothers welcomed him with great humility, self-abasement and gentleness.
Firmness prompted by kindness, the wife and mother understood to be necessary in dealing with the irascible head of the family, and she therefore quietly acquiesced in this policy when administered by their only child.
Then he seized his hat, cocked it on at an angle of forty-five, buttoned up his coat, and strutted about like an irascible bantam cock.
When he looked up there was a tall and irascible old gentleman standing over him with a heavy riding-whip.
On the point of thanking him, Evan advanced a step, when up started the irascible chairman.
If that solemn, grim, stony, and sometimes irascible sphinx of a volcano started in to talk to him, it's possible that the volcano had the last of the argument.
Young reservists especially became discouraged and fatalistic when they found that they were incapable of ever pleasing an irascible senior.
There was an irascible gentleman and a small caddie; the caddie had made an inefficient tee, and the irascible gentleman was the possessor of a prolonged and solemn waggle.
I retain a vivid recollection of a visit to Brancaster with a somewhat irascible friend.
The waggle began and the ball fell off; the irascible gentleman made opprobrious remarks, and put it on the tee again, while the small caddie showed a dreadful tendency to laugh, which he restrained with obvious difficulty.
I thought I would appease my irascible fat man by speaking to him in his own tongue.
The revenge which he had taken on Mr Ravenshaw was sweet--very sweet, for his indignation against that irascible old gentleman was very bitter; justifiably so, he thought.
The narcotic influence operated, and the irascible demon in his breast fell sound asleep.
He was of an irascible temper, easily excited to anger; but his anger might be as quickly calmed as it was aroused.
And these difficulties and doubts bred in him not depression, but an irascible and suspicious temper, which had hitherto been altogether foreign to his calm and noble nature.
In two other letters Theodoric is obliged seriously to chide the Roman Senate for its irascible temper in dealing with one of the factions of the Circus.
It was probably too indefinite to bring before the irascible old factor, and the girl had taken this method of protecting the Company, while at the same time giving him a chance for new laurels.
Angus Fitzpatrick's increasing malice toward him was not the sudden whim of an irascible old man.
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