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• In a testy exchange, Carone accuses Republican state representatives of tampering with state voting records when one official tells her the poll book is not off by 30,000 votes.

• The Anglo-American “conversations” about the timing of the second front often grew heated and testy.

• OPEC meets in Vienna on Friday, a meeting that will, according to the Wall Street Journal, be a mite testy.

• He seemed a bit testy, angry, as if the world were against him.

• I've never seen a government official get quite this testy with a reporter.

• There is a relationship that develops, tense and often testy, between a journalist and his quarry.

• But hitherto he had found none to answer his challenge, and his humour was testy.

• Just as the testy trade of Upsal demanded the franchise for its eighty-one women, so would the Lowell mill.

• Gordon opened his door a little way, and exclaimed in a testy and irritable tone, "Presently, presently."

• As late as 1908 a caustic critic was challenged to a duel by the testy and furious family head of the Gourgauds.

• On these occasions he was often seen to regard them both with a puzzled look on his somewhat testy but still kind-hearted face.