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Irascibility Caius, Dr. irritable physician. [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor] cantankerousness itself. [Comics: Horn, 216–217] sics bears on boys for their jibing. [O.T.: II Kings 2:23–24]
out-spoken, oft-married, liberated woman. [TV: “Maude” in Terrace, II, 79–80] cantankerous matriarch of the Clampett family. [TV: “The Beverly Hillbillies” in Terrace, I, 93–94] Sir Henry Percy, so named for his fiery character. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV] resident termagant of M ° A ° S ° H 4077. [TV: “M ° A ° S ° H” in Terrace, II, 70–71] sharp-tongued nurse of Florence Dombey. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son] irascible foil to peacemaking Benvolio. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] humor effecting temperament of irritability. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130] |
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| I repeated, with a degree of irascibility that roused her to lift her eyes and look me steadily in the face. But Vronsky was startled and annoyed by the nervous irascibility with which Golenishtchev talked of the subject that engrossed him. I mean such conditions as insanity, irascibility, and so on: for people are said to be mad or irascible in virtue of these. |
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