1
To his surprise the task, so irksome at first, became interesting.
2
Her injuries had stopped being so irksome, but she still couldn't walk without limping.
3
No study is so irksome to everybody, except the sciolists who teach it, as grammar.
4
No doubt, in time, this solitary, secluded life would not be so irksome to me as now.
5
Oscar did not find his duties as temporary store-boy quite so irksome or disagreeable as he anticipated.
6
The observance of the rules of impurity thus becomes so irksome that they are gradually falling into abeyance.
7
Had I known monsieur would find it so irksome to keep his engagement I could have released him.
8
The waiting for the hour of action is so irksome, that even the approach of danger is a relief.
9
Slyme's presence in the house had not proved so irksome as Easton and Ruth had dreaded it would be.
10
But the restraint was so irksome that he was all too willing a listener to the persuasions of his companion.
11
At the end of that time, however, the confinement had become so irksome that he could stand it no longer.
12
The consequence was, as might have been expected, the occupation became so irksome to them, that they rebelled against it.
13
At last I felt my captivity so irksome that I determined at all risks to put my plan into execution.
14
Therefore that daily attendance at St. John's Wood was not felt to be so irksome as might have been expected.
15
If Yuichi had been a total stranger Norio wouldn't have found his appearance and attitude so irksome, but they were relatives.
16
The caprice of fortune never laid upon a man so proud as Clarendon, a task so irksome and so little to his taste.
