"I know what you would say, and what you feel," continued Godolphin: "you think that I-that we both are poor: that you could ill bear the humiliations of that haughty poverty which those born to higher fortunes so irksomely endure.
"Godolphin, Volume 2."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Perhaps the younger members of the jury, to whom the proceedings were becoming irksomely thoughtful, hailed him as a relief.
"Tennessee's Partner"
Bret Harte
If I might read to you an hour each morning, would that help you to pass less irksomely the tedious days of your captivity?
"Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman"
Willie Walker Caldwell