irksomeness

In this matter of Hester Prynne, there was neither irritation nor irksomeness.

It would amuse away the difficulties of her part, and lessen the irksomeness of Miss Smith's."

On the other hand, if an established fanbase does exist, maybe they quite like these films: in terms of sheer, hyperactive irksomeness, they could hardly be more faithful.

"The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor", American Journal of Sociology, 1898.

In the darkness he could but vaguely see the great mass of the Cathedral: he hated it now because of the irksomeness of the long services which he was forced to attend.

At first, when they met at meals, she had seemed more composed under the new arrangement; but the irksomeness of their position worked on her temperament, and the fibres of her nature seemed strained like harp-strings.

There was a certain irksomeness of spirit, which, being real, and the deepest sensation of which the artist was now conscious, was more intolerable than any fantastic miseries and horrors that the abuse of wine could summon up.

Was it possible that, in spite of the stormy day, and worn out with the irksomeness within doors he had betaken himself to his customary haunt in the garden, and was now shivering under the cheerless shelter of the summer-house?

What would be most important in determining whether ad bugs will appear, he added, is "what value is there" for marketers as they balance the desire to introduce commercial messages "in all kinds of different places" against the potential irksomeness of the idea.

How they do sweat, and run themselves from breath, Raised on their toes, to catch thy airy forms, Still turning giddy, till they reel like drunkards, That buy the merry madness of one hour With the long irksomeness of following time!

These may think it a great thing to have everything, as they suppose, their own way-to depend on no one-to have to think of nothing out of sight, to be without the irksomeness of continual acknowledgment, continual prayer, continual reference of what they do to the will of another.