...Monte-Cristo, on the contrary, preserved a graceful suavity of demeanor, aided by a certain degree of simplicity he could assume at pleasure, and thus, calm and wholly at his ease, possessed an infinite advantage over his irascible companion . "...

...Of all these various personages Pfuhl was the one who most attracted Ms sympathy : this man, with his preposterous self-confidence and irascible but determined temper, was the only one of them all who asked nothing for himself, who had no hatreds, and who merely wished to see the execution of a scheme based on long years of study ....

...cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very, irascible temperament ....

...Mr. Braithwaite, largi and irascible, glowered at him over his spectacles ....

...muttered the irascible housewife ....

...Mr. Wrench was a small, neat, bilious man, with a well-dressed wig : he had a laborious practice, an irascible temper, a lymphatic wife and seven children; and he was already rather late before setting out on a four-miles drive to meet Dr. Min-chin on the other side of Tipton, the decease of Hicks, a rural practitioner, having increased Middlemarch practice in that direction ....

...It is clear that the irascible miller was a man to interpret any chance shot that grazed him as an attempt on his own life, and was liable to entanglements in this puzzling world, which, due consideration had to his own infallibility, required the hypothesis of a very active diabolical agency to explain them ....

...Even when she scolded me--which she did, now and then, very tartly--it was in such a way as did not humiliate, and left no sting; it was rather like an irascible mother rating her daughter, than a harsh mistress lecturing a dependent : lecture, indeed, she could not, though she could occasionally storm ....

...Now, Huntingdon, ' exclaimed his irascible friend, ' I will not have you sitting there and laughing like an idiot ! ' '...

...Black George was, in the main, a peaceable kind of fellow, and nothing choleric nor rash : yet did he bear about him something of what the ancients called the irascible, and which his wife, if she had been endowed with much wisdom, would have feared ....

...The suddenness of his arrest, and the outrage offered to his sovereign dignity, so preyed upon the irascible feelings of this proud savage, as to throw him into a raging fever : he was permitted to return home, on condition of sending his son as a pledge for his re-appearance; but the blow he had received was fatal, and before he reached his home he fell a victim to the agonies of a wounded spirit . '...

...To cover her confusion, she affected a vast indignation, and a turbulent, irascible demeanor . "...