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easily irritated or annoyed
- In the question of the grazing lands his peevish asperity is notorious and in Mr Cuffe's hearing brought upon him from an indignant rancher a scathing retort couched in terms as straightforward as they were bucolic.Episode 14 — Oxen Of The Sun (57% in)
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