"And you," said Ingeborg, picking up his image as she so often irritatingly did, only now it did not irritate him, and flinging it back with a fresh adornment, "the thought of you, the memory of you when I've gone back to my everyday life, will be like a perfect rose-window in a grey wall."
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Her none too immaculate pink robe trailed a cotton-lace tail irritatingly about her heels, which slip-slopped as she walked, her stockings, without benefit of support, twisting about her ankles.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
irritatingly, perhaps, and not wholly like a gentleman-for which, blame the rotten Scotch they will persist in selling, out there at Longmeadow.
"The Air Trust"
George Allan England