Both Uses of
irascible
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Light in August
- She is still there, the gray woman with a cold, harsh, irascible face, who bore five children in six years and raised them to man—and womanhood.†
Chpt 1 *irascible = easily angered
- She rode away a slave; she returned in '66 still a slave, on foot now—a huge woman, with a face both irascible and calm: the mask of a black tragedy between scenes.†
Chpt 20