Adjective : irksome restrictions. From Dictionary.com.
But it was worth a moment of irksomeness to taste the pure night air again. From Wordnik.com. [Behemoth] Reference
I presume that she felt the irksomeness of the confinement quite as severely as I did. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Undoubtedly, General Grant felt keenly the irksomeness of having nothing particular to do. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
What also eased the irksomeness of his situation was his appointment as adjutant of his regiment. From Wordnik.com. [John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub] Reference
Then the irksomeness of being under military discipline, which at first was frequently infringed. From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
And in this manner do their hours, days, months, years, age slide away without the least irksomeness. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Folly] Reference
Then we will begin to know each other, and we will no longer be tormented by the irksomeness of writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
Time had been when he had not felt its solitude; now he experienced only a sense of irksomeness, isolation. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
The duty he has in hand he feels in all its irksomeness, and makes no concealment thereof, -- indeed, some display perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
It is not the spell of that which shall be that is upon the soul, but the irksomeness or the dreadfulness of that which is. From Wordnik.com. [The Threshold Grace] Reference
There is an irksomeness, a restlessness, a pervading dissatisfaction, together with an absolute incapacity to bend the mind to any serious effort. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
A servant obeys mechanically, rising early because he must; doing it may be, his duty well, but feeling in all its force the irksomeness of the service. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
Long practice had freed the posture from irksomeness. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
All the irksomeness of what she has left, and none of the compensations! '. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference
In this matter of Hester Prynne there was neither irritation nor irksomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
In this matter of Hester Prynne, there was neither irritation nor irksomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
The truth was, that an intolerable discontent and irksomeness had come over me. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
To escape the irksomeness of these meditations, I resumed my post at the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
At sundown of the second day he began to complain of the irksomeness of his bonds. From Wordnik.com. [The Leopard Woman] Reference
Labour acquires a character of irksomeness by virtue of the indignity imputed to it. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The lieutenant was less able to cover the irksomeness of his situation with easy talk. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
The irksomeness of lying in the harbour at Le Havre palled upon them, even after a few hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
The first day was one of visions; the second one of irksomeness; the third one of wearisome monotony. From Wordnik.com. [Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life] Reference
I had not only to choose the pieces, but to distribute the parts, the latter being a duty of infinite irksomeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
It is not so much the idleness, then, as the attempt to overcome its irksomeness, that makes this condition painful. From Wordnik.com. [The Untroubled Mind] Reference
I need not tell you the irksomeness of business is much increased, and one's purposes unmanned by this indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
Indeed the young straight back, if it feels the weight less, feels the irksomeness of the burden more than the old bowed one. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
So believing, Cypriano, as ever impatient to get on, is greatly inclined to this course, and chafes at the irksomeness of delay. From Wordnik.com. [Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco] Reference
Even Ross and Vernon, to whom everything was at first a novelty, began to feel the irksomeness of the constant and vigilant patrol. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
The burden of taxation was excessive, and its irksomeness was sorely aggravated by the added misfortunes of the Plague and the Fire. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
And indeed Abner faced Mrs. Whyland's little circle, when the time finally came round, with much less sense of irksomeness and repugnance than he had expected. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Skylights] Reference
The irksomeness of his prison-like school so galled him, and his longing for authorship so allured him, that he ventured, penniless, into the inhospitable world of letters. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing to the Front] Reference
Ferrara, but the irksomeness of my imprisonment bred in me a disgust for such employment, and I took to modelling in wax some little figures of my fancy, for mere recreation. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
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