The baby became very fretful after the visit to the doctor's office. From LearnThat.org.
A constant fretful stamping of hooves. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
True, Custer's connection to impotence may have been largely metaphorical, but to a certain fretful portion of the populace it struck home. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Charlatan by Pope Brock] Reference
"Who's there!" called a fretful voice from inside. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsy Breynton] Reference
Victoire! in fretful tones. From Wordnik.com. [Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls] Reference
This shewed a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, considering our disagreeable ride. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
This flicwcd a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, confidcring our difagree - able ride. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D ...] Reference
I was only -- a kind of fretful porcupine -- standing up for my side. ". From Wordnik.com. [Delia Blanchflower] Reference
With fretful plaints, where unknown stars shall roll. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
If I utter fretful words, they come back to me like echoes. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
"No, I'm not," said a tired, fretful voice from the lower berth. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
Some magic had erased the fretful pucker between Diantha's brows. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
She says she can "read" a fretful baby and figure out what it needs. From Wordnik.com. [Cries And Whispers] Reference
Mrs. Colwyn grew fretful under what she felt to be silent condemnation. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
"I do not know what you mean, Nora," was Mrs. Colwyn's fretful response. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
"I know all about that," he replied with a fretful movement of the head. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Those hills, now bristled, like the fretful porcupine, with rows of poplars. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
"Mrs. Pink 'ud do it; but she's a baby who's teething, and fretful o' nights.". From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
Craddock's return to fretful chafing against the restraint of the present hour. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
But "what should we do with all this new information?" worried a fretful parent. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
I cannot describe the fretful anxiety which vexes a mind under such circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
"She's been awfully fretful, but I never thought of her being sick enough for this.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
They see others 'actions through the shadow of their own fretful and gloomy spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
She did not mind the sick girl being fretful, but she had not expected her to be rude. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
Elizabeth, in a tone of fretful impatience, asked "why her letter had not been answered?". From Wordnik.com. [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference
Autumn came, and the fretful whining winds that came down from the north chilled the Dream. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
"Exactly; and she wasn't fretful, or complaining, or hysterical once, all the time, was she?". From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
These children are always restless, fretful, continually uncomfortable, sleepless and colicky. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Such babies lose weight, become fretful and irritable, even though the appetite may remain good. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
"You can't press those clothes this morning, for I am going to use the irons," she said in a fretful voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
After dinner, Mary went upstairs to tuck in the two older girls while I soothed the fretful baby downstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
John ceased to be fretful, and by the time for leaving had arrived, Elizabeth had forgotten that he had ever been so. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
With a snarl very much like that made by a fretful tiger, the man leaped toward the boy as if to grab him by the throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
He was fretful, irritable and vacillating; would desire one thing to-day, another to-morrow; never long of the same mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Nature, she would smooth some cross-grained, fretful wrinkles that were gathering in my mind, and were saddening my soul. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
The North Koreans prefer that you remain in your hotel and, if you venture out, you're tracked by fretful government "minders.". From Wordnik.com. [Buzzing A Superpower] Reference
Portugal, the opponent that fretful morning in Korea four years later, was not quite as physically intimidating a squad as the Germans. From Wordnik.com. [The First Cup is the Deepest] Reference
The organization opened a counseling hot line for fretful spouses in October 1995 -- and has received more than 150,000 calls since then. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wives Club] Reference
One morning towards the end of August, about a fortnight before my return to school, I heard my step-mother remark in a fretful tone that. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
With the close of the warm weather he grew less and less fretful, and when the first snow fell he became as happy and active as a kitten. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
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