| 1. | "I see that my presence is irksome to you. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | To write a diary with a pen is irksome to m. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | The irksome hours, till his great Chief return. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 4. | How irksome is this music to my hear. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | I know she is an irksome brawling scol. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | Thy company, which erst was irksome to me. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | It was too irksome to lie there, harassing my brain with a hundred idle misgivings. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 8. | 'Twas irksome in spirit to all of the Danemen. - from Beowulf by |
| 9. | After three weeks she had found a wife's life irksome and, later on, when she was beginning to find it unbearable, she had become a mother. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
