1 Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome and almost intolerable.
2 The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o'clock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our residence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me.
3 Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth; the voice of Henry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a transitory peace.
4 In this manner I distributed my occupations when I first arrived, but as I proceeded in my labour, it became every day more horrible and irksome to me.
5 She was confined for some days to the house; but never had any confinement been less irksome.
6 And this was what caused his dubious, inquiring, sometimes hostile, expression, and the shyness and uncertainty which Vronsky found so irksome.
7 But he felt his duties very irksome.
8 I see that my presence is irksome to you.
9 My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
10 Mr. Collins, to be sure, was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary.
11 It was too irksome to lie there, harassing my brain with a hundred idle misgivings.
12 My present state is miserably irksome.
13 While he was yet nearly a mile from the house his mother exhibited signs of restlessness under the constraint of being borne along, as if his arms were irksome to her.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 14 To be left to pass the evening by herself was irksome to her at any time, and this evening it was more irksome than usual by reason of the excitements of the past hours.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil 15 Yes, but to me it would always be irksome to have to wait.