tetchily

Milton, a bit tetchily, obliged - of which more later.

"That was not what she was referring to," said Marcus tetchily.

He continued, tetchily, to deny he is a candidate for the Presidency.

She rang down to the reception, and asked tetchily whether she had been given the correct room number.

"Well, come inside before we both freeze our bizounes off," the man said rather tetchily.

Fetch in a dozen from the crowd and don't argue,' said Garvey tetchily.

"If the report's late, it's late," she said tetchily.

'That inappropriate use of the word "need",' Dad remarks tetchily.

He was related distantly to Caradoc on his mother's side, and tetchily proud of it.

'The danger,' she says, a little tetchily, 'is not taking a chance.

I replied somewhat tetchily that like most eight year-olds juice or milk is the norm.

'First it was oil and now it's sewage,' she said tetchily. '

'You make it sound as though there are juggernauts forever roaming around,' Ashley said tetchily.

Mrs Fitton began tetchily shuffling a pile of letters.

I'd tetchily restore it to the vertical every time I went out to assess the damage but I could tell nothing would do the trick.

'You lot,' he said tetchily to the assembled neighbours, 'you'll be contaminating evidence there.

Maxie tetchily supplies it.

"Talk's cheap," Doc muttered tetchily.

Scented Coolabar asked tetchily.

'I ought to throw them in the bin,' she told herself tetchily, casting one final plaintive glance in the direction of the telephone.

'I'm getting a little tired,' she added tetchily, 'of being shunted all over the place looking for your wretched cousin.'

"Well, that's fine," Cenuij said tetchily.

He adds, tetchily, that he doesn't want to be 'lumped together with Mailer and Capote.

'Of course,' he said, tetchily.