touchy

But she's touchy still, very touchy; and one's life is hardly safe behind her sometimes."

And now, while we're on touchy subjects, I'm going to open another one with you.

Today, therefore, I crept humbly to my seat and sat down in such a crouching posture that Efim Akimovitch (the most touchy man in the world) said to me sotto voce: "What on earth makes you sit like that, Makar Alexievitch?" Then he pulled such a grimace that everyone near us rocked with laughter at my expense.

--the old grudge makes me touchy. ( Advancing.) Aye, harpooneer, thy race is the undeniable dark side of mankind --devilish dark at that.

He also boasted of David's weight (a subject about which we are uncommonly touchy at the club), as if children were for throwing forth for a wager.

He's terribly touchy about his black wards, as he calls them.

You are pretending to be touchy; but you are not really.

"As for Reinaldos," replied Don Quixote, "I venture to say that he was broad-faced, of ruddy complexion, with roguish and somewhat prominent eyes, excessively punctilious and touchy, and given to the society of thieves and scapegraces.

The captain, however, became only so much the more crusty and dogged in his adherence to his orders, and touchy and harsh in his dealings with the passengers, and frequent altercations ensued.

Got so touchy that he assaults anyone who asks questions, and heaves reporters doun the stairs.

Captains are always touchy about that sort of thing.

This might have wounded a more sensitive nature, but Biggs's boys are not, as a rule, touchy. He came to a dead stop, a yard from our step, and, leaning up against the railings, and selecting a straw to chew, fixed us with his eye.