Picking out what he considered the two most attractive items in the illustrated paper with which he was dealing, he had repeated these items alternately with what to most onlookers would have seemed an irritating regularity.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
But it was irritating to have him lump her with them so carelessly.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
He suffered much, yet it often appears to me, as if by continually irritating them, he purposely re-opened his wounds.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse