The teacher is worried about the froward, intractable child. From LearnThat.org.
Thou art wise to go to the hotel, and froward is the man that avoideth it. From Wordnik.com. [When was it built? | Engrish.com] Reference
32 For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong (Ps 2: 4; Job 5: 12, 13). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
What froward will of man, O Zeus! can check thy might?. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
But then woos best when most his choice is froward. From Wordnik.com. [Venus and Adonis] Reference
Peasant amorous, and to mollifie any froward disposition. From Wordnik.com. [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference
What was different was all that about froward and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
'I think that women are a kittle and a froward generation; and. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
To be constant in froward fortune, and coragious in extremitie. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Oh! I do not come of my willing, with froward and restless feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
Another trouble is occasioned by the froward behavior of flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
They must not be froward and peevish, nor defraud others of their right. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference
Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
You permit your heart (little did I think it was such a froward one) to recoil. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Shall the Decemuiri still persiste in their stubburne and froward determinacions?. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
But be not froward because of a first success, nor hope too much from a royal smile. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
At home thou lookest sower, sullen or surly, often froward, and seldome well pleased. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
Messer Lizio whose age made him somewhat froward and teasty; angerly said to his wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
Hence are men morose, peevish, froward, apt to be displeased and take offence on all occasions. From Wordnik.com. [Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect] Reference
Crime; or at least, as if she was of some ill Temper or froward Humour, unfit to cohabit withal!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen] Reference
Now, saith the tale, after Sir Gawaine departed, he rode many journeys, both toward and froward. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the purposes of the froward are carried headlong.". From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
The good saw this and rejoiced thereat, but the froward gnashed with their teeth and spake evil of Gerard. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes] Reference
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision] Reference
"Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.". From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
"Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.". From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
Gerbert would deplore a froward woman, and Fortunata had certainly primed her father by this time in every detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
For he gessed hereby what a one he would prooue afterward, that shewed himselfe so disobedient and froward alreadie. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second] Reference
Melisso marvelling at her froward answere, rebuked her for it in very kind manner: whereupon, Giosefo spake thus to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
For my part, I never saw a froward child mended by whipping; and I would not have the mother country become a stepmother. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
"We have all been hindered in our devotions by your froward speech, and each has an equal right to hear your reason for it.". From Wordnik.com. [Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War] Reference
When King Mark saw him do so, as fast as Sir Dinadan rode toward them, King Mark rode froward them with all his menial meiny. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
With him life is a trifle to be gracefully played with -- a "froward child, to be humoured till it falls asleep, and all is over.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
So right even afore him there met two knights, the one came froward Camelot, and the other from the north, and either saluted other. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
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