So too, many of the spirits especially concerned with the operations of nature are conceived as neutral or even benevolent; the European peasant fears the corn-spirit only when he irritates him by trenching on his domain and taking his property by cutting the corn; similarly, there is no reason why the more insignificant personages of the pantheon should be conceived as malevolent, and we find that the Petara of the Dyaks are far from indiscriminating and malignant, though disease and death are laid at their door.   anvd [Please select]

And sometimes it slightly irritates them to remember it when they see the unmarried innocently frisking as they once frisked.   anvd [Please select]

It is a small matter enough, God knows, but it is precisely because it is so very small that it irritates.   anvd [Please select]

He had been all along too mysterious, and mystery is what irritates most of us more than anything else.   anvd [Please select]

The muzzle does not answer; for it irritates the temper which sickness has rendered sensitive.   anvd [Please select]

Cold irritates his nervous system more than anything else, unless it be excessive warmth.   anvd [Please select]

The finger, moreover, by the friction it occasions, irritates the parts; and however gently it may be introduced, it cannot otherwise than in some degree have this effect.   anvd [Please select]

It appears too, that when in Paris, Godmamma always drives in the Bois at the wrong times, and will have her opera box on the nights no one is there, and that irritates Héloise.   anvd [Please select]