1.  Why, then, does he make these long journeys, which must be exceedingly irksome to him, and who is it that he visits?

2.  We began for pleasure and recreation, but it became irksome and fatiguing, and the subject which might have amused us and helped to pass many an idle hour is put aside and abandoned.

3.  It may be readily imagined that to a non-Icelandic sense of smell, it is an irksome task to be present at a burial from beginning to end, and especially in summer.

4.  My wife— for what reason I cannot guess— seemed to find my society irksome.

5.  Upon the cold earth pensive let them lay, That mean to travel some long irksome way.

6.  Although at times his influence seemed irksome and intolerable, to throw it off was beyond my strength.

7.  That day was an irksome time at Endelstow vicarage.

8.  He was satisfied to turn his face away entirely, and any call to look back was irksome.

9.  But it is the tobacco which I find most irksome.

10.  But such thoughts spring inevitably out of a relation that is irksome.