He found his professorial duties increasingly irksome, and feeling that the pressure of literary work left him no spare energy, he decided in 1880 to resign the post.

I am finding the nonsense connected with juveniles increasingly irksome.

Thereafter, Conan finds the routine of a peaceful reign increasingly irksome.

The crisis in Natasha Richardson's love life came at a fortuitous time, for she was finding the constant comparisons with her mother increasingly irksome.

The Macedonian King seemed to be enjoying the pageants, though for Parmenion the days grew increasingly irksome.

The delays are increasingly irksome to the states with waste sites.

I would ask no questions since it had been increasingly irksome that, each time I had done so after this journey of ours had begun, she had been condescending and spoke as if in her way she was far more learned than I could ever hope to be.

We have had many years during which the rulership of the Imperium over our system has become increasingly irksome- our resources depleted and wasted on military adventurism, our rights curtailed.

By 1860, it was tacitly recognised that British law prevailed in the settlements and Māori custom elsewhere, though the British, who by then outnumbered Māori, were finding this fact increasingly irksome.

While he enjoyed casual copulation with high-born 'groupies', accepting it as droit de seigneur, due the heir on his visit to the more remote parts of the Empire, he found official duties increasingly irksome.