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This was, in fact, a provoking task, especially for an irascible man. For many of the cows and an occasional bullock would have absolutely nothing to do with the festival, but shook their heads and butted sideways with their horns, as often as the red-haired fellow came anywhere near them with the tinsel and brush.
He was an able though not a brilliant debater; a man of independent convictions and thorough courage. Fessenden, like Trumbull, was entitled to rank as a real statesman. Like Trumbull he had no popular arts, and where Trumbull was reticent and withdrawn in manner, Fessenden was austere and sometimes irascible. In private character both were above reproach.
Perhaps Publius may be fortunate; but if his schoolmaster is of the ordinary type he will be an irascible loud-voiced person, who bawls and scolds and thrashes. It will be a common thing to find, as Seneca puts it, a man "in a violent passion teaching you that to be in a passion is wrong." The doctrine went that "he who is not flayed is not educated."
His qualifications for office were all superlative: he was very short, very corpulent, very illiterate, very irascible, and very stupid. On the morning after his investment, he was under the hands of his barber, a shrewd intelligent Greek, Mustapha by name.
This parson had been a champion in his youth, and had won much honour by his fist, both at school and at the university. He had now indeed, for a great number of years, declined the practice of that noble art; yet was his courage full as strong as his faith, and his body no less strong than either. He was moreover, as the reader may perhaps have conceived, somewhat irascible in his nature.
You could be shooting something all the time." He went away in a decidedly irascible frame of mind. She did not know it, but Baldos was soon afterward set to work in the garrison stables, a most loathsome occupation, in addition to his duties as a guard by night. After mature deliberation Beverly set herself to the task of writing home to her father.
Now I honour Thurlow, sir; Thurlow is a fine fellow, he fairly puts his mind to yours." Johnson's retorts were fair play under the conditions of the game, as it is fair play to kick an opponent's shins at football. But of course a man who had, as it were, become the acknowledged champion of the ring, and who had an irascible and thoroughly dogmatic temper, was tempted to become unduly imperious.
What we wish to know is why the murderer stole the mummy. And I would point out to you, Mr. Inspector, that, as yet, we do not even know the sex of the assassin. It might be a woman who murdered the deceased." Professor Braddock, who was seated near the door of the coffee-room, being even more irascible than usual, rose to contradict.
La Louve snatched the bread from the hands of Mont Saint Jean, and began to vociferate, brandishing her knife. As she is very irascible, and very much feared, no one dared to take the part of poor Goualeuse." "What do you call her, madame?" "La Goualeuse. It is the name, or rather surname, under which she has been confined here. Almost all of them have similar borrowed names."
Petersburg; but the Emperor Nicholas, who by this time recognised the masterful qualities of the man, refused to receive him a conspicuous slight, which Lord Stratford, who was as proud and irascible as the Czar, never forgave.
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