(1) However, Therese was getting ornery in her old age, and had never done anything according to plan, so it figured that instead of being indifferent, she would want to make her daughter's wedding as much a living hell as possible.(2) ‘Aw, come on now, you ornery old sonuvabitch, just one sarsparilla and I'll be out of all your ways,’ Sean laughed and reached for a nearly full glass on the bar.(3) ‘Cows can seem ornery if they don't do what we want them to do,’ says Anderson, an ARS animal scientist in Las Cruces, New Mexico.(4) Just to be ornery , Mike tooted again and the old man shook a fist.(5) But however difficult, however ornery , however discontent with mere beauty the book becomes, it is impossible to resist the unironic joy with which Grossman performs the work of poetry.(6) My hope is that he's too ornery ever to become Establishment.(7) Hyperactive, troublesome, ornery and just plain prolific… here comes Ryan again and he still means business.(8) During his last lesson of the day, Jerry was finally able to calm down after dealing with an ornery horse buyer who still thinks smoking in a barn is a safe idea.(9) While Spike Lee favourite Davis's deadpan performance as JFK is great, Campbell's portrayal of the ornery old Elvis steals the film.(10) No word on how officials dealt with this ornery little critter, but judging by the general good temper of both voters and officials, my guess is that they simply made it stand in the corner for the rest of the evening.(11) I noticed an ornery three year old testing his mother's patience with slaps to the face, and amazingly, bites to the shoulder and arm.(12) He simply could not, however, be grateful that his father - though quite well-meaning, he was sure - was a stubborn, ornery old man that never gave up.(13) Sure, she was an ornery old witch, and maybe I wanted to kill her myself, but I wouldn't have the nerve to actually do it.(14) My guess is that there's going to be some semblance of order, although as you point out, Texans can be, shall we say, an ornery lot sometimes, and may decide that they'll come in when they feel like coming in.(15) Growling softly at the guard, pretending to be my usual, ornery self and blaming him for the shortness of chain.(16) He's swimming twice a day in his usual morning and evening swim, playing a little golf and going to the office regularly and just being his usual, ornery self.
