A wave of nervous irritation passed through him.

Then fear gave way to nervous irritation and that in turn to anger.

The vigil simply increased the nervous irritation in the ship, spreading down from the officers to the men.

In her present state of nervous irritation she was not to be appeased.

A line or two of nervous irritation marked themselves about her eyes, and her colour had faded.

The woman tried to whisper in her husband's ear, but save for a look of nervous irritation he ignored her.

All that nervous irritation that had so fretted him of late seemed to have died down and disappeared.

He indulged himself in a burst of nervous irritation, getting up, pacing the room once and sitting down again.

The elder girl, as she walked to and fro, spoke with nervous irritation in her voice.

During this monologue, certainly rather long, the lawyer had grown more and more restless and full of nervous irritation.