impatiency

Be patient in the age of pride, and days of will, and impatiency, when men live but by intervals of reason, under the sovereignty of humour and passion, when it is in the power of every one to transform thee out of thyself, and put thee into short mad — ness.

Letter to a Friend 2007

I am a most unhappy creature, proceeded he: unhappy from a strange impatiency of spirit, which I cannot conquer.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

But again, impatiency, founded perhaps on self-partiality, that strange misleader! prevails.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

So, Doctor, tell me truly, may I stay here, and be clear of any imputations of curtailing, through wilfulness or impatiency, or through resentments which I hope I am got above, a life that might otherwise be prolonged? —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Whence, whence, had I this vile impatiency of spirit! —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

It imprisoned, as I may say, his lively spirits in himself, and turned the edge of them against his own peace; his extraordinary prosperity adding to his impatiency.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Now, whether he observed this inclination of her towards him, or else would take no notice thereof, it could not be discerned by any outward apprehension: which moved the more impatiency in her, and drove her hopes to dispairing passions.

The Decameron 2004

But he could in no wise mitigate my impatiency of the injury which I conceived within my minde.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

I assayed many ways to help to quiet my conscience, but It would not be; for the concupiscence and lust of my flesh did always return, so that I could not rest, but was continually vexed with these thoughts: This or that sin thou hast committed: thou art infected with envy, with impatiency, and such other sins: therefore thou art entered into this holy order in vain, and all thy good works are unprofitable.

The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

All this while, no doubt, my lord waited with growing impatiency for news of his accomplices.

The Journey in the Wilderness 1889