touchily

"And," said Silence, just a little touchily, "how come that projector's working when nothing else is?"

I said touchily, surveying the bleak, damp interior of the chamber.

'Head's fine,' he said touchily, putting water on to boil for the oatmeal.

"You were perfectly willing to let your son have at you," P'nyssa said touchily.

FitzGilbert, discouragingly, looked as touchily ill-tempered as she always did, despite the early hour.

I heard a comment made that the French Government reacted touchily to the MAI.

"It was nothing," said Berdichev touchily.

'You're a friend,' Ginelli said, a bit touchily.

Gotrek said touchily.

It lurked touchily in semi-leftfield.

To a man, the Islanders, with their divisional supremacy officially in jeopardy after a weekend of failures against the Flyers, received Saturday's 5-4 loss touchily.

'Thank you,' Brian said touchily, 'but I'm fixed.'

'That's right,' said Eric, and added touchily, 'But what it's got to do with you I'm damned if I know.'

"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.

The War Department replied touchily that there had been no error and that she was undoubtedly the victim of some sadistic and psychotic forger in her husband's squadron.

Kevin Lee, a gifted, upper-middle-class Chinese-American touchily introduces himself by saying that he's "third generation, which doesn't mean my dad worked in a delicatessen to get me into M.I.T.

"When they arrive here, the tourists think that maybe we Vietnamese are like the Chinese, that we all wear Mao suits and do not understand the beauty of the human form," our tour guide told us, a bit touchily.

'You will perceive', he noted touchily to Jardine, when Jardine implied that the subscribers had borne the cost of the cancellation, 'that I am a looser [sic]and that to a considerable amount, and not the former subscribers.'

"Ah, yes--somewhere in the north of Holland, then," said Sappha, shaking down the thermometer, and was taken back when the Baroness said touchily: "Not North Holland--our home is in Dokkum, which is in Friesland.

He asserted, touchily, that Illinois air was tastier than Wisconsin air, Illinois taxes lower than New York taxes, Illinois Swedes more Swedish than Minnesota Swedes, and Joliet penitentiary more flourishing than Sing Sing.

We learn of his father, Phil Elkin, an overdriven traveling salesman of costume jewelry so touchily proud of his hard-won economic station that he once lost his temper at a woman behind an Automat counter for politely telling him that the bacon cost extra ("My Father's Life").