Peters, with not a little asperity.

Keith was so absorbed that he did not answer immediately, and the agent repeated the question with a little asperity in his tone.

There was nothing for it but to submit to circumstances; and, with a feeling of no little asperity towards that "flirting Suffolk girl,"

"We were not speaking of England, sir," I said, with some little asperity.

"I do understand," she retorted, with a little asperity.

"I'm blessed if I know how you found all that out," he said, with a little asperity in his voice.

"I shall dance whatever dances I like, as I have always done," said Marian, with some little asperity in her tone.