" "Oh, I would wait a little longer than to-morrow—there is no knowing what may happen," said Lydgate, with bitter irony.
"No doubt that is a good device as to ways and means," said Lydgate, with an edge of irony in his tone.
His marriage would be a mere piece of bitter irony if they could not go on loving each other.
And on Lydgate's enthusiasm there was constantly pressing not a simple weight of sorrow, but the biting presence of a petty degrading care, such as casts the blight of irony over all higher effort.
Farebrother's, however, whom the irony of events had brought on the same side with Bulstrode in the national movement, Will became a favorite with the ladies; especially with little Miss Noble, whom it was one of his oddities to escort when he met her in the street with her little basket, giving her his arm in the eyes of the town, and insisting on going with her to pay some call where she distributed her small filchings from her own share of sweet things.
Thank ye, sir, thank ye," said Dagley, with a loud snarling irony which made Fag the sheep-dog stir from his seat and prick his ears; but seeing Monk enter the yard after some outside loitering, Fag seated himself again in an attitude of observation.
But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor.
It is an irony that they should so tragically have affected others.
Once I saw that his eyes were fixed on Blanche Stroeve, and there was in them a curious irony.
The irony is that people think they will be happy when they have money.
"（《》,） Lear is deeply offended and, in a cruel twist of irony, disinherits the only child who truly loved him.
The irony wasn't lost on me.
The irony wasn't lost on me.
Virgo Virgo is too shy: Virgo, you don't really have a sense of humor… you have difficulties understanding off-beat humor or irony, and you're too shy to be seen clowning around in public.
As the Economist points out, there's an irony to the fact that many items bear "Made in China" labels, but high taxes and duties mean prices are around 40 percent lower than those found in Beijing.
As the Economist points out, there's an irony to the fact that many items bear "Made in China" labels, but high taxes and duties mean prices are around 40 percent lower than those found in Beijing.
The irony is that people think they will be happy when they have money.
The cruelest irony of my life is that it took me losing my best friend, my wife of 26 years and the mother of my three children, to truly appreciate each and every day.
" There was a disturbing irony.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.
