He touchily refused all offers to help. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"I didn't drag her out here," Reede said touchily. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
We've been bloody thorough, 'he said, somewhat touchily. From Wordnik.com. [The Jigsaw Man]
Junior asked touchily, laying his arm across Alex's shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
Eric Idle talks, a bit touchily, about what he thinks is funny. From Wordnik.com. [Idle chatter ...] Reference
"I didn't ask you to come and make fun of me," Virginia replied touchily. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
So, although he was not generally a defensive person, he reacted a little touchily to the Scientific. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Sorting] Reference
From her work and from her association with women who had organized suffrage associations in hostile cities, or had defended political prisoners, she caught something of an impersonal attitude; saw that she had been as touchily personal as Maud. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
"Yes; or why should I have come?" he said touchily. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
"With that reasoning you might suspect me!" said the latter a trifle touchily. From Wordnik.com. [The Bat] Reference
Pym followed this reasoning, and said touchily, "Many a schoolmaster has a red face.". From Wordnik.com. [Tommy and Grizel] Reference
All of which meant that the tired office-woman was touchily defensive of the man who liked her. From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
She nodded, then shook her head, and touchily left Mrs. Howland to get out of it any meaning she desired. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Rose, indeed, had grown so touchily sensitive that she found offence in almost every word of Lady Charlotte's about her nephew. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
"I'm not asking your advice on matrimony, you old fool, I'm asking if you've got anybody in this one-horse place who can marry folks legally," said Marc, touchily. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Mesa] Reference
From her work and from her association with women who had organized suffrage associations in hostile cities, or had defended political prisoners, she caught something of an impersonal attitude; saw that she had been as touchily personal as Maud Dyer. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Courtly, handsome, with haughty manners, of aristocratic bearing, fiercely proud, touchily quarrelsome on "points of honour," generous but a bitter hater, he and his equally handsome, proud, and fiery wife were considered by many people of the time as embodying the ideal of Southern chivalry. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Dawn] Reference
"Nothing of the sort, sir," said I, rather touchily "You will learn to your cost, I fear, that I have neither exaggerated nor misinterpreted a word. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference
His words washed touchily over the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
'No, 'said the latter touchily,' I be not agreed. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
" said George, touchily. From Wordnik.com. [Five On A Secret Trail]
"No," said the latter touchily, "I be not agreed. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
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