Price's orders sometimes, but frequently under their own impulses to commit outrages, inflict blows, and create excitement, a large part of the State was covered by bands of guerrillas who appeared as citizens, were well armed, rode good horses, and were annoyingly successful in sweeping down on the railroad stations, water tanks, bridges, and settlements of Union people, burning, destroying, and creating havoc generally.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
Also I'm told I'm most annoyingly practical, and most irritatingly capable of taking care of myself, and never getting burnt, so to speak.
"Winding Paths"
Gertrude Page
If a beetle drone annoyingly, he will catch it in a handkerchief and put it outside, and so with a bee.
"The Soul of a People"
H. Fielding