(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) U2018Aw, come on now, you ornery old sonuvabitch, just one sarsparilla and I'll be out of all your ways,u2019 Sean laughed and reached for a nearly full glass on the bar.

(3) U2018Cows can seem ornery if they don't do what we want them to do,u2019 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 prolificu2026 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.

(17) As a writer, I needed an online presence for my web content services; and as an ornery , mule-headed, cheapskate writer, I was determined to build it myself in spite of those who said I should leave it to the experts.

(18) Both men, in self-described sentiment, were of u2018the left,u2019 yet both men infuriated the left with their stinging criticism and ornery independence.

(19) Look what Cusack's ornery independence has achieved.

(20) Most of us are too ornery to admit it and too stubborn to quit, so we have to find ways to pull together to survive.

(21) Most afternoons, it's the two older players who bicker the most, like ornery retirees on a park bench.

(22) Hernandez lets us see the stubborn and ornery side of this difficult character, rather than making him into some sort of saint.

(23) When fiscal conservatives balk, only a few thousand ornery Republicans in New Hampshire and Arizona abandon the party.

(24) The gas counter was run by an ornery , old-west character who got his nickname from the vodka cases he stored in a hidden cave across the highway from his filling station.

(25) Together, Greg, Jerwon, and Dana helped Zet tackle the ornery Woolyford, which was a difficult thing to do since the ram had the strength of a bear.

(26) This's essential when writing of an artist who has recorded at least three times as much material as he's released and comes across as the most contradictory, ornery , old cuss imaginable.

(27) Ryo was carrying a worn-out Chava on his back, and Zaila too looked tired and ornery .

(28) From other interviews I'd seen, I knew Jim could make things difficult for me if he was in one of his ornery moods.

(29) Who doesn't love the image of the ornery old man shouting, u2018You kids stay out of my yard!u2019

(30) Sam Cassell is ornery and stubborn but knows how to win.