With all his sensitiveness, from irritable and suspicious egotism, such as is the most common cause of moral madness, he was singularly free.
Nothing splenetic, no element of suspicions and irritable self-love, entered into the composition of his character.
His own quickness of perception was calculated to render him impatient and irritable under even the clearest and briefest statement which could be addressed to him.
After shampooing, the scalp is sensitive and irritable under the brush.
On the twenty-third day of September, Sir Sidney Delaware had some slight symptoms of a fit of gout, which rendered him somewhat irritable and anxious.
As we have endeavored to show in the preceding pages, Henry Beauchamp had his full share of weaknesses, among which was a very tolerable portion of irritable pride.
Thus, he had no old channel of communication with the world still open, and pride, rendered irritable by disappointment, as well as the circumstances in which he was placed, prevented him from seeking any new connection with society.
He wasirritable with the children, and even with herself, stopping her when she tried to consult him about anything.
Perhaps she was more silent and more irritable than usual, but Eleanor Bethune's heartache for love never led her to the smallest social impropriety.
His cheeks flushed, his eyes had a wild look of terror in them, he trembled and started, and in spite of all my efforts to soothe him, grew irritable and gloomy.
He wore a large pair of epaulettes; he was irritable in his temper; and when roused, which was frequent, was always violent and overbearing.
Their affection and constancy will stand the test of time and of long separation; generous to prodigality, but jealous, and irritable in their jealousy, even to the use of the dagger and poison.
You see, I have not been quite the thing lately: nervy and irritable and that sort of nonsense, which the chief charitably construed into an indication of ill-health.
When the meal was over we went out into the garden and sat down, and somehow or other the sense of quiet and the beauty of the view soothed me, and I felt less irritable than for days past.
There are many people who imagine that it is sinful to be happy, and a sign of grace to be miserable, which is about as sensible as to believe that it is an indication of good health when you are irritable and out of sorts.
The curses of the civilized world still pursued him, and in his retreat at Sans-Souci he had no rest; and hence he became irritable and suspicious.
This odour is so great in the principle of conium, that it is almost impossible for an individual of an irritable habit, to remain in the room, where there is an etherial solution, containing only a few grains of it.
In ulcers, which are small, not exposed to friction or motion, and discharging little, the cure by eschar will be preferable; especially in those little irritable and painful ulcers often seen about the ancle and tendo Achillis.
I have made friends with several outcasts this term, boys who don't fit into the scheme of things and are as a consequence morose, irritable and unhappy.
I was nervous and irritable without Elspeth and never stayed more than a night or two in any one house and kept on rushing back to see how Elspeth was getting on.
He was thick-set and had white hairs in his coarse black beard, and little, irritable brown eyes under his irritable brows.
But the attempt was in vain, for his shirt stuck, and a peculiarly irritable look came over his countenance.
No," cried Carey, who was hot and irritable with the failure attending his exertions.
She was sorry that she had promised to look at anything so irrelevant as an aeroplane, and felt nervously irritable because she could not at once go back to her game.
A little weak, irritable sniff came up from its engine as the toy train paused at one of the three stopping places below La Turbie.
He bore himself with a sour solemnity, and he was at once irritable and dejected.
He took little notice of the wiles of his elfish antagonist, and whenever he fell into a snare devised by Rufe, he was irritable for a moment, and had forgotten it the next.
He "often found in experimenting in that way, that the paralysed muscle remained irritable twice, three times, or even four times as long as the healthy one.
But after this lapse of time, the paralysed muscles, having been kept by the paralysis in a state of rest, had lost a great part of their irritability, and instead of more, had become less irritable than those on the healthy side.
A baby which has had a poor appetite, has been irritable and exquisitely tender, suddenly regains its appetite, is no longer fretful, and can be handled without occasioning crying.
The mother or nurse complains that the child is irritable and peevish, and that the appetite is poor or capricious.
She would, after venturing to take a glass of wine at dinner, sleep for hours, and awaken either with a headache or in an irritable and despondent mood.
A boy of delicate physique and a disposition so sensitive and irritable that few could keep on good terms with him, he was always in difficulties.
At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion.
During all this period his mind was doubtless fermenting with projects which kept him in a fevered and irritable condition.
If this harmony should ever be threatened, I could wish that every impatient and irritablemember of the profession would read that beautiful, that noble Preface to the "Letters," addressed to John Collins Warren.
The caprices of sick people were never to be despised, least of all of such persons as Elsie, when rendered irritable and exacting by pain and weakness.
Was it possible, in any way, to exasperate her irritablenature against him, and in this way to render her more accessible to his own advances?
When the Marchesino and Vere went out upon the terrace, how restless, how irritable he-- Suddenly Hermione sat up in her bed.
I get soirritable and wretched with fear, that I constantly hasten on the disorder.
They were supposed to be exceedingly irritable and cruel, avenging with death the slightest insult or neglect, and were kept within the precincts of the temple.
Beyond the arras the steward and his lord were at irritable converse.
He became irritable and desponding; and as he received no intimation in regard to the charge against him, he began to conjure up a thousand vague unreal images, and to destroy them as soon as raised.
And he pointed to the lower officers of the prison, who thus dismissed, quickly followed the Governor as he shrunk away from the Statesman's hasty and irritable glance.
Such irritable people get the rooms and the chairs and the food that they like, and the talk in their presence is eagerly kept upon subjects on which they can hold forth.
A man who does not notice petty grumbling, who laughs away sharp comments, who does not brood over imagined insults, who forgets irritable passages, who makes allowance for impatience and fatigue, is singularly invulnerable.
