I never fully enjoyed the taste of equine dandruff, and the eternal smell of manure irked me, especially at the table.
His anger had subsided, and he felt almost pleased, though it irked him to think that he had got the worst of it, and would not admit this.
It irked him to think that he would never again possess such a woman as Lida, that he had lost so comely and desirable a mistress.
But it irked him to have to say such a thing; and he was silent.
The first part of that oration started up my sickness again and irked me not a little.
The dictator in Joan Gaunt was speaking, but Eve was not irkedby her tyranny on this particular morning.
Competition irked her, for the reason that she despised taking trouble.
The Anglo-French control irked him sorely, and he knew that by the bulk of his subjects he was disliked and despised.
By an Act called the Rescript of 1878 he had abdicated his personal control of the revenue and the administration into their hands, and used as he was for eighteen years to absolute power in Egypt it irked him already to have lost it.
It had irked them not to farewell who fares * With the parting- fires that my heart waylay.
This pityirked her pride and made her disinclined to accept his offer.
Mavis was not a little irked at Harold's indifference to her friendship; it hurt her self-esteem, which had been enhanced by the influence she had so palpably wielded over him.
When she was alone, as now, her pride was irked at the fact of her not being a bride; she believed that the tenacious way in which she had husbanded her affections gave her every right to expect the privilege of wifehood.
Mavis stared with dull surprise at the rollicking gaiety of the afternoon: its callousness to her anguish irked her.
The contrast between their two states irked Mavis: she was resentful at the fact of his possessing all the advantages in life of which she had been deprived.
They were late in getting started that morning, which irked his energetic soul; and women's whims never did impress Luck Lindsay very deeply.
It irked him to see her going her calm way with that proud uptilt to her shapely head and that little, inscrutable smile when she caught the meaning of his grumbling hints.
But the thought irked his pride, and he gloated over the Persians' coming.
He had no wish to warn the Hellenes, but it irked his pride to be thought a liar.
Pet had long been impatient of the celebration of Charity Coe's saintly attributes, and it had irked her to see so desirable a catch as Jim Dyckman squandering his time on a woman who was already married and liked it.
When the great crowd went past with the queen, these twain, Hagen and Folker, would not step back more than two hand-breadths, the which irked the Huns.
What more they did I cannot tell, save that Kriemhild's men-at-arms were heard to grumble that they fared so slowly on their way, for much it irked them.
Little it irked the noble margravine that he was come so well and sound from the Rhine.
It irked her sore that they did make themselves such strangers and that men from Siegfried's land so seldom served her.
Had another done the deed, 'twould have irked you sore.
The king had seated him with Brunhild, the maid, when she espied Kriemhild (naught had ever irkedher so) sitting at Siegfried's side.
At this the heroes rode in lordly wise; none it irked what the knight had counseled.
Giselher stood further back, which irked him sore, in truth.
I must say that it somewhat irked me to be treated with much ceremony, as a Frank and paladin of the great king, instead of being hailed in all good fellowship as a thane of England, who was glad to get home again.
The walls round the town irked me also, for one does not like to feel shut in from the open country.
Presently, indeed, the noise and heat of the hall irked me, and I found my way out.
But he sold me to the Lord of Utterbol, who would lead me to his house; which irked me not, at first, because I looked to find thee there.
Moreover itirked him to hear a grown man weeping for grief, even though it were but a priest.
For I know not how I should have done to have seen my mate that out-tilted me made a gelded wretch of; and it would have irked me to see that fair woman in the hands of the tormentors, though forsooth I have oft seen such sights.
Nought else I knew save how to spin, and to tend our goats and milk them, and to set snares for birds and small deer: though when I had caught them, it irked me sore to kill them, and I had let them go again had I not feared the carline.
Napikal ku sa íyang matamihírun nga katáwa, I got irked at her derisive laughter.
Naglágut si Ibuy sa ímung sugsúg, Iboy wasirked at your teasing.
B126] get irked or irritated to the point of anger.
Now, because they obeyed in a common cause and of their own volition, obedience no longer irked them, and they had come to think of themselves less as individuals than as bricks mortared together in a military arch.
This formality irked her: she wanted to play a little, romp.
Orville Taplin was a very good secretary, but his eagerness to prove it sometimes irked his superiors.
I think Frank was using that expression to me only, you know, saying how irked he was at Lee.
I thought he was writing to a friend, and Ruth pointed out to me after I had given the letter back to her, Ruth was somewhat irked that I didn't take more interest in the thing.
