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  • She turned from him, irrepressibly humming her song.†   (source)
  • As she lay in his bed and he stood over her, he had the irrepressible feeling that she was a child who had been put in a bulrush basket and sent downstream to him.†   (source)
  • The room was boiling irrepressibly into bedlam.†   (source)
  • Some say it is related to the irrepressible urge to press shells to our ears, to hear the still-surviving echo of the world's first expression.†   (source)
  • Now, if you don't mind, I'd like you to tell me anything you know about the irrepressible Mr. Lukens.†   (source)
  • With an irrepressible flicker of excitement, I took out an extra place setting.†   (source)
  • John Adams's irrepressible desire was to seize hold of it, and at times his was to be the path of Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • She catches my eye, an irrepressible grin spreading across her face.†   (source)
  • Dennis Goldberg, the youngest of the accused, had an irrepressible sense of humor and often had us laughing when we should not have been.†   (source)
  • He grabbed her, swinging her around once in a moment of pure, irrepressible joy.†   (source)
  • Biggrin looked around and studied the seething rage that had crept into all of the troops, threatening to bring down the whole lair in one sudden fit of irrepressible violence.†   (source)
  • Gardens and fountains were common throughout the city, on account of the elves' irrepressible love of nature, and there were many soaring towers among the Riders' halls and holds.†   (source)
  • He was subdued then, no longer the irrepressible Mervyn we used to know, very kind and quiet.†   (source)
  • On this night, these two average college basketball teams would honor their sport with the irrepressible intensity of their will to win and the radiant chivalry of their gamesmanship.†   (source)
  • The irrepressibly comic Metzger made crosseyes before replying, "That would be telling."†   (source)
  • But even in tragedy he was irrepressibly funny.†   (source)
  • At last—mainly now to throw off this irrepressible image—she forced herself to get out of bed and face the meltingly lush and beautiful summer day.†   (source)
  • Eudora Carden came from the home of a strongly dedicated Baptist preacher, and about all preachers he was irreverent and irrepressible.†   (source)
  • Both the men and women were irrepressibly fond of the local silver-and-turquoise jewelry.†   (source)
  • I felt drawn by a single, irrepressible urge.†   (source)
  • And then, irrepressibly, "But I wouldn't have had to try."†   (source)
  • Then, irrepressibly, "I was very happy there, though."†   (source)
  • He felt an irrepressible urge building with force.†   (source)
  • Still he hummed, irrepressibly, deep in his throat.†   (source)
  • The most fascinating thing about Zeke Skimberry, however, was his irrepressible wife, Ida.†   (source)
  • He had said: "How-de-do, Reverend?" and suddenly, irrepressibly, laughed.†   (source)
  • He is a small and irrepressible man with the energy of someone half his age, and if you were to talk to people in the tennis world, they'd tell you that Vic Braden knows as much about the nuances and subtleties of the game as any man alive.†   (source)
  • Those secret tastes, defeated in the past by oranges and rhubarb, broke out into an irrepressible urge when she began to weep.†   (source)
  • Their first mistake was acceding to Rachel's wishes in inviting her old friends to her twenty-second birthday party: the same crew who had celebrated the first time-irrepressible Niki, Don Stewart and his friend Howard, Kathi Obeg and Marta Tyn, her best friend Linna McKyler-all of them then just out of college, shucking off cocoons of childhood for new lives.†   (source)
  • The Italian, whose head covered with patent leather curls aroused in women an irrepressible need to sigh, dealt with Amaranta as with a capricious little girl who was not worth taking seriously.†   (source)
  • Those were days of such inner agitation, such irrepressible anxiety, and so many repressed urges that on the first evening that Meme was able to get out she went straight to Pilar Ternera's.†   (source)
  • Despite the imp's irrepressible disdain and delight in misfortune, Max also detected a certain fondness for his subject, especially children.†   (source)
  • It was the old Connor that Max heard in the letter—the cocksure, mischievous boy with a mop of brown curls and an irrepressible spirit.†   (source)
  • When feeling fit, which was much of the time, he was out and about, and as before in Philadelphia, proved an irrepressible shopper.†   (source)
  • And she was alone in the room with him after Michaela had departed, lovely, hale and statuesque, steaming and rippling with an irrepressible affectionate vitality even as she remained in one place and frowned at him irately.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Daneeka was overjoyed and wept irrepressibly with relief and kissed the crinkled, grubby tissue of V-mail stationery a thousand times.†   (source)
  • Richie was a stocky, powerful, and irrepressible Italian who had entered my life with a flourish the last year I taught at Beaufort High School.†   (source)
  • Because of incalculable stress or hunger or grief or terror, or God knew what, her period had been delayed for at least a week (this had happened to her in the camp twice before), but now at her loins the wet warm downward-pulling sensation came in a rush; she felt the huge abnormal flood and at the same time was aware in her eyes of the spreading, irrepressible darkness.†   (source)
  • This—though doubtless it might acquire additional force and volume from the child-like loyalty which the age awarded to its rulers—was felt to be an irrepressible outburst of enthusiasm kindled in the auditors by that high strain of eloquence which was yet reverberating in their ears.†   (source)
  • A howl of laughter went up irrepressibly.†   (source)
  • After a short time it fills me with irrepressible hatred and nausea.†   (source)
  • And yet the song was irrepressible.†   (source)
  • Seward, in his "Irrepressible Conflict" speech, delivered four months after Lincoln's "House Divided" speech, declared: "The United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor nation.†   (source)
  • All over Oceania this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to Big Brother for the new, happy life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us.†   (source)
  • There was an awful silence—then an irrepressible chortle from the Norths.†   (source)
  • An irrepressible grin runs from face to face among the brigands.†   (source)
  • "All right," he said to himself, with an irrepressible frown, "let her sleep alone."†   (source)
  • "Sure it does!" replied the irrepressible Bo.†   (source)
  • The wild note of the hound manifestly stirred Bo to irrepressible action.†   (source)
  • The old man uttered an irrepressible cry.†   (source)
  • I was filled with sudden irrepressible fury.†   (source)
  • And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face.†   (source)
  • At sight of Pierre her expression showed an irrepressible hatred.†   (source)
  • Dinah spoke again, in a tone made stronger by irrepressible emotion, "Hetty...it's Dinah."†   (source)
  • Before she had ceased speaking he had burst into loud, irrepressible laughter.†   (source)
  • it is well-nigh gone!" said Aylmer to himself, in almost irrepressible ecstasy.†   (source)
  • How could it be otherwise?' exclaimed the irrepressible Fanny.†   (source)
  • But, her courage was of that emotional nature that it brought the irrepressible tears into her eyes.†   (source)
  • Bulstrode reddened with irrepressible anger.†   (source)
  • Bathsheba moved on to hide the irrepressible dimplings of merriment.†   (source)
  • Here the orator was interrupted by irrepressible and almost frantic applause†   (source)
  • Then the tide of buffalo swept on, over, once more a flat, level multitude of heads and humps, irrepressible as an avalanche.†   (source)
  • Very well; very well indeed—except for certain fantastic and violent outbreaks, on the deplorable occasions when the irrepressible Patna case cropped up.†   (source)
  • Utterson heaved an irrepressible sigh.†   (source)
  • As necessary adjuncts to the flask, he silently placed tumbler and water-jug before the irrepressible guest.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Mr. Rosedale—how are you?" she said, perceiving that the irrepressible annoyance on her face was reflected in the sudden intimacy of his smile.†   (source)
  • I had not thought of it, but—" But here the two sisters could restrain themselves no longer, and both of them burst into irrepressible laughter.†   (source)
  • She was persuaded that irrepressible passion was the cause of his impatience; and being an ardent admirer of impulsiveness (when it did not lead to the spending of money) she always received him with a genial twinkle of complicity and a play of allusion to which May seemed fortunately impervious.†   (source)
  • My sternness was all for his judge, his executioner; yet it made him avert himself again, and that movement made ME, with a single bound and an irrepressible cry, spring straight upon him.†   (source)
  • And since this other, this irrepressible, dominant, despotic Legrandin, if he lacked our Legrandin's charming vocabulary, shewed an infinitely greater promptness in expressing himself, by means of what are called 'reflexes,' it followed that, when Legrandin the talker attempted to silence him, he would already have spoken, and it would be useless for our friend to deplore the bad impression which the revelations of his alter ego must have caused, since he could do no more now than endeavour to mitigate them.†   (source)
  • Through fugitive slaves and irrepressible discussion this desire for freedom seized the black millions still in bondage, and became their one ideal of life.†   (source)
  • And down his mind went flat as a marsh, and three great emotions bowled over him; understanding; a vast philanthropy; and finally, as if the result of the others, an irrepressible, exquisite delight; as if inside his brain by another hand strings were pulled, shutters moved, and he, having nothing to do with it, yet stood at the opening of endless avenues, down which if he chose he might wander.†   (source)
  • Smoke the irrepressible related a story, and they descended into the steerage, bellowing with laughter.†   (source)
  • The shock of dismay with which, on the dock, she had heard from Gerty Farish of Mrs. Peniston's sudden death, had been mitigated, almost at once, by the irrepressible thought that now, at last, she would be able to pay her debts.†   (source)
  • You know nothing about the thing, and yet—idiot!" he added, muttering the last word to himself in irrepressible rage.†   (source)
  • He was serious for a while—suddenly an irrepressible facetiousness broke through and he laughed, saying, "It's hopeless.†   (source)
  • Schomberg, the keeper of the hotel where he boarded, a hirsute Alsatian of manly bearing and an irrepressible retailer of all the scandalous gossip of the place, would, with both elbows on the table, impart an adorned version of the story to any guest who cared to imbibe knowledge along with the more costly liquors.†   (source)
  • she cried to herself in irrepressible irritation; it was his silly unconventionality, his weakness; his lack of the ghost of a notion what any one else was feeling that annoyed her, had always annoyed her; and now at his age, how silly!†   (source)
  • us at Combray, in Holy Week),—seeing upon the boulevards that the chestnut-trees, though plunged in a glacial atmosphere that soaked through them like a stream of water, were none the less beginning, punctual guests, arrayed already for the party, and admitting no discouragement, to shape and chisel and curve in its frozen lumps the irrepressible verdure whose steady growth the abortive power of the cold might hinder but could not succeed in restraining—I reflected that already the Ponte Vecchio was heaped high with an abundance of hyacinths and anemones, and that the spring sunshine was already tinging the waves of the Grand Canal with so dusky an azure, with emeralds so splendid tha†   (source)
  • Aglaya looked menacingly at her laughing sisters, but could not contain herself any longer, and the next minute she too had burst into an irrepressible, and almost hysterical, fit of mirth.†   (source)
  • It was poor Mrs. Tulliver who had hastened this catastrophe, entirely through that irrepressible hopefulness of hers which led her to expect that similar causes may at any time produce different results.†   (source)
  • But a full-fed fountain will be generous with its waters even in the rain, when they are worse than useless; and a fine fount of admonition is apt to be equally irrepressible.†   (source)
  • I rose with an irrepressible expression of what I felt on my lips, which induced my companion, who had been staring towards the door, to turn and look at me.†   (source)
  • Madame Bovary turned away her head that he might not see the irrepressible smile she felt rising to her lips.†   (source)
  • Isabel irrepressibly answered.†   (source)
  • Although in his appearance there is, to a casual observer, nothing which might bespeak him more or less than man-still a feeling of irrepressible reverence and awe mingled with the sensation of wonder with which I regarded him.†   (source)
  • The light rendered every limb and joint discernible, and Duncan turned away in horror when he saw they were writhing in irrepressible agony.†   (source)
  • "Heh-heh-heh!" laughed the married man with a hideous effort of appreciation, for he was as irrepressibly good-humoured under ghastly snubs as a parliamentary candidate on the hustings.†   (source)
  • Flourishing his reeking trophy, he gave the war-whoop in its most frightful intonations, and for a minute the arches of the silent woods and the deep vista formed by the course of the river echoed with cries so terrific that Mabel bowed her head in irrepressible fear, while her uncle for a single instant actually meditated flight.†   (source)
  • "Bravo, bravo!" exclaimed I, with irrepressible enthusiasm; "this shows the liberality of the age; this proves, if anything can, that all musty prejudices are in a fair way to be obliterated.†   (source)
  • 'I am in the twenty-third year of my life here,' he said, with a catch in his breath that was not so much a sob as an irrepressible sound of self-approval, the momentary outburst of a noble consciousness.†   (source)
  • Isabel would have invited her again (there was no question of inviting the Count); but Osmond, after his marriage, had not scrupled to say frankly that Amy was a fool of the worst species—a fool whose folly had the irrepressibility of genius.†   (source)
  • There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.†   (source)
  • Hester had schooled herself long and well; and she never responded to these attacks, save by a flush of crimson that rose irrepressibly over her pale cheek, and again subsided into the depths of her bosom.†   (source)
  • She was rather a favorite with 'old Davis', as, of course, he was called, and it's my private belief that he would have broken his word if the indignation of one irrepressible young lady had not found vent in a hiss.†   (source)
  • Although master of himself, Monte Cristo, scrutinized with irrepressible curiosity the magistrate whose salute he returned, and who, distrustful by habit, and especially incredulous as to social prodigies, was much more despised to look upon "the noble stranger," as Monte Cristo was already called, as an adventurer in search of new fields, or an escaped criminal, rather than as a prince of the Holy See, or a sultan of the Thousand and One Nights.†   (source)
  • Thus far the elder traveller had listened with due gravity; but now burst into a fit of irrepressible mirth, shaking himself so violently that his snake-like staff actually seemed to wriggle in sympathy.†   (source)
  • Quoth the irrepressible weaver: "Dear neighbour, since you knew the Forest some time ago, could you tell me what truth there is in the rumour that in the nineteenth century the trees were all pollards?"†   (source)
  • To recline on a stump of thorn in the central valley of Egdon, between afternoon and night, as now, where the eye could reach nothing of the world outside the summits and shoulders of heathland which filled the whole circumference of its glance, and to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, gave ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New.†   (source)
  • Miss Morleena approaching to do homage, in compliance with this injunction, was summarily caught up and kissed by Mr Lillyvick; and thereupon Mrs Kenwigs darted forward and kissed the collector, and an irrepressible murmur of applause broke from the company who had witnessed his magnanimity.†   (source)
  • [Laughing in irrepressible glee.†   (source)
  • The Sunday evening was spent in repeating, by heart, the Church Catechism, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew; and in listening to a long sermon, read by Miss Miller, whose irrepressible yawns attested her weariness.†   (source)
  • Forth from each stall, like missiles in a volley from so many great guns, rushed the six fours; and up the vast assemblage arose, electrified and irrepressible, and, leaping upon the benches, filled the Circus and the air above it with yells and screams.†   (source)
  • The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck, pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection!†   (source)
  • 'Why, it's Nancy!' exclaimed Oliver; who now saw her face for the first time; and started back, in irrepressible astonishment.†   (source)
  • As it was, the whole procession might have seen him, a wild, haggard figure, his gray locks floating in the wind that waved their banners; a lonely being, estranged from his race, but now feeling himself man again, by virtue of the irrepressible instinct that possessed him.†   (source)
  • An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm.†   (source)
  • A pause succeeded, during which the honest and irrepressible baby made a series of leaps and crows at little Jane, who appeared to me to be the only member of the family (irrespective of servants) with whom it had any decided acquaintance.†   (source)
  • I listened to detect a woman's voice in the house, and filled the interim with wild regrets and dismal anticipations, which, at last, spoke audibly in irrepressible sighing and weeping.†   (source)
  • As Esther started in return to the summer-house, the sunlight fell softly upon the dustless roof, showing her a woman now—small, graceful in form, of regular features, rosy with youth and health, bright with intelligence, beautiful with the outshining of a devoted nature—a woman to be loved because loving was a habit of life irrepressible with her.†   (source)
  • The regimental commander's face now that the inspection was happily over beamed with irrepressible delight.†   (source)
  • Tilda,' said Miss Squeers, colouring up to the top row of curls, 'I am ashamed of you;' and here the two friends burst into a variety of giggles, and glanced from time to time, over the tops of their pocket-handkerchiefs, at Nicholas, who from a state of unmixed astonishment, gradually fell into one of irrepressible laughter—occasioned, partly by the bare notion of his being in love with Miss Squeers, and partly by the preposterous appearance and behaviour of the two girls.†   (source)
  • Instead of which, that undignified creature answered, with an irrepressible sob, "Because you are going away."†   (source)
  • The thought that if he betrayed his trouble to his mother, she would only distress him by words, half of blundering affection, half of irrepressible triumph that Hetty proved as unfit to be his wife as she had always foreseen, brought back some of his habitual firmness and self-command.†   (source)
  • Then the Jew, in an agony of impatience, watched every morsel he put into his mouth; pacing up and down the room, meanwhile, in irrepressible excitement.†   (source)
  • And Tom was very unhappy; he felt the humiliation as well as the prospective hardships of his lot with all the keenness of a proud nature; and with all his resolute dutifulness toward his father there mingled an irrepressible indignation against him which gave misfortune the less endurable aspect of a wrong.†   (source)
  • This Levin, with his continual twitching of his head, aroused in her now an irrepressible feeling of disgust.†   (source)
  • 'What a good fellow you are, Clennam!' exclaimed the other, stopping to look at him, as if with irrepressible admiration.†   (source)
  • But even when the minister's voice grew high and commanding—when it gushed irrepressibly upward—when it assumed its utmost breadth and power, so overfilling the church as to burst its way through the solid walls, and diffuse itself in the open air—still, if the auditor listened intently, and for the purpose, he could detect the same cry of pain.†   (source)
  • "What fun it would be to send it to the stupid old Boldwood, and how he would wonder!" said the irrepressible Liddy, lifting her eyebrows, and indulging in an awful mirth on the verge of fear as she thought of the moral and social magnitude of the man contemplated.†   (source)
  • "If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit," said Will, with irrepressible quickness.†   (source)
  • He looked dejectedly round, and slunk away; and, as he reached the door, the titterings of the paupers broke into a shrill chuckle of irrepressible delight.†   (source)
  • "'Charge, Chester, charge!' is the motto for that table, but do your duty like men, and you'll get your money's worth of art in every sense of the word," said the irrepressible Jo, as the devoted phalanx prepared to take the field.†   (source)
  • Frank Cheeryble and Tim Linkinwater looked, in irrepressible astonishment, first at each other and then at Kate, who felt that some explanation was necessary, but who, between her terror at the apparition of the legs, her fear lest their owner should be smothered, and her anxiety to give the least ridiculous solution of the mystery that it was capable of bearing, was quite unable to utter a single word.†   (source)
  • He let his eyes rest on Alexey Alexandrovitch's feet, feeling that he might offend his client by the sight of his irrepressible amusement.†   (source)
  • "My dearest darling...Mummy, my precious!" she whispered incessantly, kissing her head, her hands, her face, and feeling her own irrepressible and streaming tears tickling her nose and cheeks.†   (source)
  • It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it—if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of that Unknown towards which we have sent forth irrepressible cries in our loneliness.†   (source)
  • This is what they have done with me!" thought he, full of an irrepressible fury that welled up within him against the someone to whom what was happening might be attributed.†   (source)
  • "Ye banks and braes," and other favorite airs from his "Instructor on the Flute;" a wheezy performance, into which he threw much ambition and an irrepressible hopefulness.†   (source)
  • 'I thought, sir,' said Young John, with as pale and shocked a face as ever had been turned to Mr Dorrit's in his life—even in his College life: 'I thought, sir, you mightn't object to have the goodness to accept a bundle—' 'Damn your bundle, sir!' cried Mr Dorrit, in irrepressible rage.†   (source)
  • With this irrepressible ebullition of mirth, Master Bates laid himself flat on the floor: and kicked convulsively for five minutes, in an ectasy of facetious joy.†   (source)
  • Betsy broke into unexpectedly mirthful and irrepressible laughter, a thing which rarely happened with her.†   (source)
  • "Father, Mother, this is my friend, Professor Bhaer," she said, with a face and tone of such irrepressible pride and pleasure that she might as well have blown a trumpet and opened the door with a flourish.†   (source)
  • For instance; when Sowerberry had an order for the burial of some rich old lady or gentleman, who was surrounded by a great number of nephews and nieces, who had been perfectly inconsolable during the previous illness, and whose grief had been wholly irrepressible even on the most public occasions, they would be as happy among themselves as need be—quite cheerful and contented—conversing together with as much freedom and gaiety, as if nothing whatever had happened to disturb them.†   (source)
  • Congratulating himself that a handsome repast had been ordered that morning, feeling sure that it would be ready to the minute, and indulging in pleasant anticipations of the charming effect it would produce, when his pretty wife came running out to meet him, he escorted his friend to his mansion, with the irrepressible satisfaction of a young host and husband.†   (source)
  • "God bless you, madam!" said Tantripp, with an irrepressible movement of love towards the beautiful, gentle creature for whom she felt unable to do anything more, now that she had finished tying the bonnet.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I suppose so," answered Anna, as it were wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire as she said it.†   (source)
  • The reawakened power of life that had seized Natasha was so evidently irrepressible and unexpected by her that in her presence Princess Mary felt that she had no right to reproach her even in her heart.†   (source)
  • The lawyer's gray eyes tried not to laugh, but they were dancing with irrepressible glee, and Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that it was not simply the delight of a man who has just got a profitable job: there was triumph and joy, there was a gleam like the malignant gleam he saw in his wife's eyes.†   (source)
  • "Captain Ramballe, of the 13th Light Regiment, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for the affair on the seventh of September," he introduced himself, a self-satisfied irrepressible smile puckering his lips under his mustache.†   (source)
  • After that, with an irrepressible smile of tenderness, Kitty recalled her husband's shamefaced embarrassment, his repeated awkward efforts to approach the subject, and how at last, having thought of the one means of helping Dolly without wounding her pride, he had suggested to Kitty—what had not occurred to her before—that she should give up her share of the property.†   (source)
  • After Pierre's departure that first evening, when Natasha had said to Princess Mary with a gaily mocking smile: "He looks just, yes, just as if he had come out of a Russian bath—in a short coat and with his hair cropped," something hidden and unknown to herself, but irrepressible, awoke in Natasha's soul.†   (source)
  • And suddenly he recalled how they used to go to bed together as children, and how they only waited till Fyodor Bogdanitch was out of the room to fling pillows at each other and laugh, laugh irrepressibly, so that even their awe of Fyodor Bogdanitch could not check the effervescing, overbrimming sense of life and happiness.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, as she looked at the strange but amusing capers cut by the dancers, who—having decided once for all that being disguised, no one would recognize them—were not at all shy, Pelageya Danilovna hid her face in her handkerchief, and her whole stout body shook with irrepressible, kindly, elderly laughter.†   (source)
  • How such a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek.†   (source)
  • Into the sky of dawn an irrepressible cry went up, as lines of men preceded war-cars at the moat and war-cars in support came just behind.†   (source)
  • His was an involuntary confidence, an irrepressible effusion to a soothing friend—not an application to a parent.†   (source)
  • — Elinor could have given her immediate relief by suggesting the possibility of its being Miss Morton's mother, rather than her own, whom they were about to behold; but instead of doing that, she assured her, and with great sincerity, that she did pity her—to the utter amazement of Lucy, who, though really uncomfortable herself, hoped at least to be an object of irrepressible envy to Elinor.†   (source)
  • She pursed her thin lips primly together, though the corners turned irrepressibly up.†   (source)
  • We burst into gasps of irrepressible snickering.†   (source)
  • The irrepressible Bloom, who also had a shrewd suspicion that the old stager went out on a manoeuvre after the counterattraction in the shape of a female who however had disappeared to all intents and purposes, could by straining just perceive him, when duly refreshed by his rum puncheon exploit, gaping up at the piers and girders of the Loop line rather out of his depth as of course it was all radically altered since his last visit and greatly improved.†   (source)
  • O longings irrepressible!†   (source)
  • O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with
    irrepressible love,
    Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
    Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on
    Paumanok's sands,
    Crossing the prairies, dwelling again in Chicago, dwelling in every town,
    Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
    Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls,
    Of and through th†   (source)
  • As they were entering it, the wicked one, who is the author of all mischief, and the boys who are wickeder than the wicked one, contrived that a couple of these audacious irrepressible urchins should force their way through the crowd, and lifting up, one of them Dapple's tail and the other Rocinante's, insert a bunch of furze under each.†   (source)
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