Exempel på testily

• "If I knew," I replied testily, "I wouldn't be asking."

• He manhandles the equipment, testily blaming newfangled technology when he has difficulty with basic tasks such as placing a compact disc in a player.

• He reacted testily to being described as the party's "attack dog" in an interview.

• “And why would I joke about that?” asked Joanna testily.

• The Board of Education asks testily how the Health Department knew about the absenteeism, as they certainly didn't report it to anyone.

• It was not, therefore, very surprising that the acute and forcible observations of a traveler they knew would be listened to should be received testily.

• This the father said, throwing down his cards somewhat testily.

• Slab assured her testily, striving to disguise his own impatience.

• He even asked himself testily why people like that wanted to come to a summer dwelling in the middle of winter.

• They woke testily, and with no thanks to us, even though it was by their orders that we called them.

• Some of them he testily disobeyed, was punished compassionately, and learned respect and a kind of love for the mecs.

• He was reflecting testily on the peculiar reticence of his wife.

• Sometimes the two spirits are hostile; they are angry with each other, and fight; and hate each other, and buzz testily.

• The paper rustled testily and was raised a few inches higher.

• He in reality felt testily apologetic towards all mankind that he could not avert death at last.

• He coughed testily, and before his important eyes he held a blue-book upside down.

• At that a gentleman remarked, testily, to hide his own agitation, that dogs really had very little sense.

• The moderator took off his glasses, and testily rapped the dented table.

• The miller broke in testily.

• She stamped testily with her small foot.