It is the morose look, the harsh expression, the tone of irritation and fretfulness which is so unpopular in school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young] Reference

Nothing could exceed her impatience and fretfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

This was not idle fretfulness, but constructive worry.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2001] Reference

The fretfulness was almost gone from Mama's voice now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Son]

It caused fretfulness, crying fits, insomnia, bouts of fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duma Key]

Much colic and fretfulness may be avoided if baby is kept warm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

Thrush is evidenced by fretfulness or crying on attempting to nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

This she accomplished without hurry of spirit, fretfulness, or misgiving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Beside all this, we saw no more of her days of bad humor and fretfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paula the Waldensian] Reference

Her patience tacitly chided Lessa for her fretfulness and petty grievances.    From Wordnik.com.  [DragonFlight]

My guess was that she wanted to make a fool of him, to vent her fretfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bull From The Sea]

The receipt of that letter banished all anxiety and fretfulness from my mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

For all her frailty and fretfulness and delicacy, she would have tiny iron breasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fox] Reference

As Paulette spoke, I felt more and more that I was losing my fretfulness and low spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Tempers grow wild and unruly, sleep disappears, fretfulness and irritability take its place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

It was the last self – exhausting effort of my fretfulness, for after that I slept soundly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations] Reference

She smiled off the visible fretfulness, that the man might go away in good humour with himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Creation's wide field of animated existence inspires no such moodiness and fretfulness of spirit.    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

I have been tempted to a spirit of fretfulness and ill-nature; praise the Lord for the victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference

She is inclined to fretfulness and melancholia by the seeming uncharitableness of fate and fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Oh! the spite, the fretfulness, the vexation which the horrible phantasmagoria of diabolisms induce!.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

He responds to the fretfulness or gentleness of the mother, the noisy confusion or peace of the home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training] Reference

His two youngsters Charles and Ben were keeping him in a state of continuous anxiety and fretfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unleashed Powers]

Her sisters noted the old fretfulness and restlessness had gone out of her tones, and whilst Elfie wondered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

Throughout the severe dispensation Gerald Bereford manifested no irritation, no fretfulness, no complaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton] Reference

“Did you hear me?” she said, still quietly and rapidly, and without the least fretfulness or impatience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in White] Reference

The showing off process creates excitement and lays the foundation for fretfulness, irritability and nervousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

His fretfulness after these continued, he turned with increased eagerness to his bottle, and with tears of disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nest Builder] Reference

Sleeplessness by night and fretfulness by day form a vicious circle, and attempts must be made to break it at all points.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

He wanted so much to get out of this lit – up cloy of humanity, and the exhaust of love, and the fretfulness of desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

His manner indicated so much petulant fretfulness, that I augured from it the conscious decline or disorder of his affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

For emulation can never enter that godlike consort, nor such fretfulness as wants resolution to conceal its own resentments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

How many women keep their menkind back from public duty by their fretfulness about the inconveniences entailed on themselves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Thoughts for Girls] Reference

It is perfectly marvelous to notice how a child will put on from six to eight pounds in a short period, at the same time overcoming his irritableness and fretfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference