Virgilius made beginning, "by that peace Which I believe is waiting for you all, Tell us upon what side the mountain slopes, So that the going up be possible, For to lose time irks him most who most knows.
Such a theory may help to explain the powerful line in Rabbi Ben Ezra: Irks care the cropfull bird?
I trow she loves Geordie in her inmost heart, but she canna thole to feel herself bound to him, and it irks her that when her sisters are wedded to sovereign princes, she should gang hame to be gudewife to a mere Scots Earl's son.
It irks me to see some of the best blood in Scotland among the grooms.
And I, since the inglorious leisure of the hearthirks my blood, heartily company with him.
If it irks you that I remind you of it, do not give the blame to me.
Though I be late arrived, yet of thy grace Let it not irk thee here a while to stay: It irks not me, yet, as thou seest, I blaze.
Love, in a generous heart set soon aglow, 100 Seized him for the fair form was mine above; And still it irks me to have lost it so.
It irks me much," exclaim'd he, "to hear these words of pride.
Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck- To see this sight, it irks my very soul.
And yet itirks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should, in their own confines, with forked heads Have their round haunches gor'd.
Him the twin hosts of Spain and Afric fly, Nor time in loading baggage idly spend; Who will not wait that deadly fury more, Which to have proved so deeply irks them sore.
Yet itirks me that I shall see little more of thee at this time, for to-morrow early I must needs join myself to my company; for we are going south awhile to a good town some fifty miles hence.
But now when thine own mouth telleth me of one of them it irks me little.
Soothly, my friend, it irks me that now we have met after a long while, I must needs be clad thus graceless.
Albeit methinks that this irks not either you nor me; for otherwise we might have found them straggling, and scattered far and wide, which would have made our labour the greater.
Home-sickness I mourn, and my strangerhood * Irks my soul, nor the riddle of future I ree.
And also these, "Irks me my Fate and clean unknows that I * Of my high worth her shifts and shafts despise.
It irks me that owing to the necessity of earning my livelihood I must break off my work, and occupy myself with trivialities.
It irks me to confess it, but I have no more than these three florins.
Now if thou didst this to work off the results of full-living I would say naught: but what irks me is that my boy must learn to starve and thirst with thee.
Now, now I rue my deed foredone, now, now itirks me sore!
Waxes the world ingrate, no deed benevolent profits, Nay full oft itirks even offending the more: Such is my case whom none maltreats more grievously bitter, 5 Than does the man that me held one and only to friend.
I came here to avoid my husband, since he declared the sight of me irks him—and then you turn on me—what are you trying to drive me to between you?
Somewhere in all of us a lump which irks Somewhat the spriteliest-scheming brain that 's bent On brave adventure, would but heart consent!
Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast; Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men; Irks care the crop full bird?
And give a loose to your insulting joy; It irks me more thus stifled than expressed: Loose it!
They were kept to toil and combat; And never changed their chains but for their armour: Now they have peace and pastime, and the license To revel and to rail; it irks me not.
Change Shapes with you, if you will, since yours so irks you; Or form you to your wish in any shape.
If, then, you find a man seeking reasons to disprove his faith, it is because his faith irks him, because he would fain shake it off and be done with it.
And though a small boy may accept such rule without question, yet as he grows up it irks him more and more, until at last it may become a daily and hourly irritation growing steadily more unbearable, more exasperating, month by month.
Agib, "my heart irks me for the loss of a beloved one, who is none other than my father; and indeed my grandfather and myself have come forth to seek for him throughout the world.
This outlawry irks me not, and in two months I am free to go where I wish.
Now," said Hiarandi, "for all my words to Einar, this life irks terribly.
But that's a minor trouble;--it irksme though, for it comes from the same quarter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
