Hargrave has annoyed me all day long with his serious, sympathising, and (as he thinks) unobtrusive politeness.
Perhaps she thought I had a headache, and could not bear to talk; at any rate, she saw that her loquacious vivacity annoyed me, as I could tell by the malicious pertinacity with which she persisted.
"You are a foolish child, and I cannot allow you to
annoy me.
'A letter from your old acquaintance, the housekeeper at the Grange,' I answered;
annoyed at her exposing my kind deed, and fearful lest it should be imagined a missive of my own.
Bloomfield were not the only guests whose coming to Wellwood House
annoyed me; every visitor disturbed me more or less; not so much because they neglected me (though I did feel their conduct strange and disagreeable in that respect), as because I found it impossible to keep my pupils away from them, as I was repeatedly desired to do: Tom must talk to them, and Mary Ann must be noticed by them.
....And that after many had perished Peleus was
annoyed, and prevented her from throwing Achilles into the cauldron.
When I trotted, I rattled like a crate of dishes, and that
annoyed me; and moreover I couldn't seem to stand that shield slatting and banging, now about my breast, now around my back; and if I dropped into a walk my joints creaked and screeched in that wearisome way that a wheelbarrow does, and as we didn't create any breeze at that gait, I was like to get fried in that stove; and besides, the quieter you went the heavier the iron set- tled down on you and the more and more tons you seemed to weigh every minute.
You want that sense altogether; therefore I am no more
annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be
annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures: or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music."
To Magdalen's surprise, when the course of her narrative brought her to the story of the ghost, Captain Wragge listened with the air of a man who was more
annoyed than amused by what he heard.
Charlotte was most
annoyed at finding me practically alone, and so I couldn't help being a little
annoyed with Miss Lavish."
"And what does she get
annoyed with you about, Duchess?"
Gervais," replied D'Artagnan, "from behind which the Rochellais
annoyed our workmen."