Realizing again that his spectacles had been broken, he blinked his eyes and spoke in an irritable tone.

"We are back to the same point," decided Barth, in an irritable tone.

"Jake, you ought to be helping with the horses," Gus said, in an irritable tone.

The irritable, nasal tones clashed with her dignified appearance.

She talked fast for 45 minutes, her tone conciliatory and irritable.

"I didn't bring us anywhere," returned Tasslehoff in irritable tones when he could speak again.

The general irritable tone in the family will also reduce and become more relaxed.

Pamela looked up at the irritable tone, so out of place in these idyllic surroundings.

The irritable tone was back, but I ignored it.

"I'm fine," she said with the irritable tone of someone whose attitude didn't match her words.