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fretful
1. The babies, fretful with
2. The Pilgrim aroused Molo from his fretful sleep with a nudge
3. She merely said in her fretful mumbling way, "What foolishness are you young rips up to now?" and thought no more about it
4. fretful Shobal, viewing this scene with horror, lunged desperately for the now-arcing pole-end
5. Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir
6. “What the hell happened? Are you ok?” Preeti asked with a fretful look
7. After hours of fragmented sleep, his mother�s words amplified throughout him in a fretful tone
8. “Inside his little site cabin Neville was sleeping, but it was a worried, fretful
9. ” The fretful husband stood with his
10. His mood was somber, fretful
11. When the last guests exited the lift on the 5th floor, Nurse gave him a fretful stare
12. gave a gulping gasp, then with one last fretful dab at the
13. remaining with my fellow Malaysians, but rather fretful that it has been
14. When the car pulled to a stop and Mark Sherwin stepped out Jess’s first fretful thought was that something bad had happened to Amber or Lauren
15. Touched by adversity, he is fretful
16. Had I died,-- in what peculiar misery should I have left you, my nurse, my friend, my sister!--You, who had seen all the fretful selfishness of my latter days; who had known all the murmurings of my heart!--How should I have lived in your remembrance!--My mother too! How could you have consoled her!--I cannot express my own abhorrence of myself
17. "Yes," she said, like a fretful, half-soothed child
18. "Did I?" she answered, with fretful weariness
19. The first day or two, my charge sat in a corner of the library, too sad for either reading or playing: in that quiet state she caused me little trouble; but it was succeeded by an interval of impatient fretful weariness; and being too busy, and too old then, to run up and down amusing her, I hit on a method by which she might entertain herself I used to send her on her travels round the grounds---now on foot, and now on a pony; indulging her with a patient audience of all her real and imaginary adventures, when she returned
20. He had been greatly tried during the journey, I felt convinced, by his fretful ailing charge
21. ” That’s what Nathan had said when Abigail was three weeks old, a fretful baby, who, since she’d been home from the hospital, had never slept longer than thirty-two minutes
22. "There are evils worse than death," said Duncan, speaking hoarsely, and as if fretful at her importunity, "but which the presence of one who would die in your behalf may avert
23. After a time the child began to grow fretful and refused to eat; when his mother gave him a fresh piece of sugar-stick out of the jar he threw it peevishly on the floor and began to whimper, rubbing his face against his mother's bosom and pulling at her dress with his hands
24. Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, "I
25. Had Lord Marchmain planned this lying-in-state for himself, I wondered, before he left the sunshine of Italy? Had he thought of it during the scudding rain of his long, fretful journey? Had it come to him at that moment, an awakened
26. She had never spoken a word to her sister-in-law for three days; but she had likewise dropped her fretful complaining, and we found it a great comfort
27. Had I died, in what peculiar misery should I have left you, my nurse, my friend, my sister!—You, who had seen all the fretful selfishness of my latter days; who had known all the murmurings of my heart! How should I have lived in YOUR remembrance! My mother too! How could you have consoled her! I cannot express my own abhorrence of myself
28. He had an intelligent face, though it was usually irritated and fretful in expression
29. Perhaps Lizabetha Prokofievna was alone in making these fretful observations; the girls, though not wanting in intelligence, were still young; the general was intelligent, too, but narrow, and in any difficulty he was content to say, “H’m!” and leave the matter to his wife
30. If the Revolutionary Daughters had not arranged their September meeting on the day that a freight wreck made the trains from Barham westward very late and irregular; if Miss Herron had not been waiting a fretful half hour in the dusty station for the means of reaching the meeting before it was over, when Archie Fraser drove his car thither in a search for an express package, the latter part of this story would have been very different