Rat-holes were an unknown commodity on the first floor, though numerous in the attic, and the dignity of behavior Buster thought incumbent on him to assume in honor of rising fortune had proved irksome in the extreme to that worthy youth.
It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.
It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter, whether in public or in private walks of life.
Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
Irksome is applied to something which disgusts by its nature or quality; as, an irksome task.
For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us.
Let us therefore learn not to be irksome when God layeth his cross upon us.
His retirement (1742) amid the beeches and oaks of his country seat was irksome and insipid.
The enforced imprisonment in the house had been doubly irksome without him, and at last she had been constrained to own it to herself.
Never before had the duties of the schoolroom seemed so irksome to Lilian as this morning.
She was as light-hearted as a child that night, and Harboro, after the irksome restraints of the day, rejoiced in her.
There was neither guilt nor alarm in her bearing, but only an irksome discomfort.
He neither knew nor cared anything about gold, so the Reefer soon found the conversation irksome and wandered off to examine the formation.
A suitably qualified permission, as every statesman knows, may produce the social effects without producing the irksome pressure of an absolute prohibition.
Utopian work insisted upon the escape of man from irksome labours through the use of machinery.
Time now passed pleasantly enough with the young man, though it was irksome to be shut up in idleness while so much was going on.
At the time I first knew him it was irksome to very many of his friends to be told that there ought to be an efficient fugitive slave law.
It was rich with incidents, and afforded the nomadic lawyers ample relaxation from all the irksome toil that fell to their lot.
In the midst of all my irksome discomfort, it was with difficulty I could keep my countenance at this question, which I was forced to negative.
The irksomeloom must have them up at morn; They work till worn-out nature will have sleep; They taste, but are not fed.
What situation is more common than a sea-voyage, where nothing presents itself to the reflections of most men than irksome observations on the desert of waters?
A] In one of these irksome moments, waiting for subsidies, Elizabeth anxiously inquired of the Speaker, "What had passed in the Lower House?
When genius languishes in an irksome solitude among crowds, that is the moment to fly into seclusion and meditation.
A bright adieu, For a brief absence, proves that love is true; 30 Ne'er can the way be irksome or forlorn That winds into itself for sweet return.
Spite of her ill-health, the first winter we spent in London, she perseveringly continued her irksome task, rising even in the coldest weather at six, the provident care of Ellis causing her fire to be lighted almost the earliest in the house.
On being questioned as to his reasons for resigning his curacy, he frankly owned that so quiet a life was irksome to him, and a desire to travel had occasioned the wish to become tutor to any nobleman or gentleman's son about to do so.
To the poor girl herself it was irksome and painful; but she tried to convince herself these feelings were wrong, and checked them even in her letters to Herbert.
Thus the idea of travelling alone, when his sister's family offered such attractions, became absolutely irksome to him, and he was pleased to see that his plan of joining them was not disagreeable to Miss Manvers.
Irksome as it may be, it demands merely strength of will and not a scientific training in ritual and Vedic texts.
Hence, side by side with irksome codes, complicated ritual and elaborate theology, we find the conviction that all these things are but vanity and weariness, fetters to be shaken off by the free in spirit.
Business life is full of irksome and difficult tasks but the aim in view carries people through them.
We shall not eliminate the disagreeable and irksome from school tasks, but try to create in children such a spirit and ambition as will lead to greater exertions.
The service of watching Sir Daniel's movements in the town of Shoreby had from the first been irksome to their temper, and they had of late begun to grumble loudly and threaten to disperse.
It was impossible, under these circumstances, that Yakub Khan could ever be reinstated as Ruler of Kabul, and his remaining in his present equivocal position was irksome to himself and most embarrassing to me.
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