Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring. From LearnThat.org. [Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)]
"Anne!" called a querulous voice down the passage. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
"Don't stand looking any longer, for mercy's sake!" called the querulous voice from the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Suddenly the groom, a kind of querulous shiver in his voice, spoke. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
She is not dissatisfied, querulous nor envious. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Bush's New Hampshire staff grew querulous and demoralized. From Wordnik.com. [Pumping Iron, Digging Gold, Pressing Flesh] Reference
Giving Esther a querulous smile, he returns to the library. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
A woman passing by in front of us looks at me with querulous eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Passing Time] Reference
Immediately she lifted up her voice in a thin, querulous shriek. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
No querulous or peevish complaints, no meanings over her hard lot. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"You hold your windlass," commanded the old man in a querulous tone. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
Through the ventilator behind them came the murmur of querulous voices. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
"Well, what have you got to say?" she demanded in the old querulous tone. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis A Twin] Reference
At this moment a querulous, broken voice comes to them from some inner room. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
His wife's querulous light, gray eyes looked at them with a malignant idiocy. From Wordnik.com. [Light Eyes] Reference
He soon began to harass his subjects with new demands and querulous exactions. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
Occasionally he glanced fearfully over his shoulder and voiced querulous protests. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
There is nothing which more detracts from one's usefulness than a querulous temper. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
In the silence, Angie's querulous tones rose sharply from the other side of the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
There was a full minute's pause and then a querulous, sleepy voice grumbled over the wire. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
And he gave forth oracles which would have been more impressive had they been less querulous. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
“Do you like it here?” the query was querulous and random, initiated to fill the silence. From Wordnik.com. [An Immovable Lease] Reference
At their regular monthly meeting just the day before, the Wise Men had been querulous and demanding. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Look Now] Reference
In America, critics describe European attitudes as fainthearted, querulous and, on occasion, duplicitous. From Wordnik.com. [AMERICA'S ASSIGNMENT] Reference
Another example may be given from a letter of Fronto's (2) Here is something else quarrelsome and querulous. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
"It seems to me, David," the querulous voice was saying, "that the sun, up your way, rose mighty late to-day.". From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
But American conservatives are too querulous, and American liberals and self-styled progressives are too timid. From Wordnik.com. [Joan Z. Shore: A Cold Cup of Tea] Reference
The querulous wailings which are the stock in trade of a certain class of writers are unnatural and discordant sounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"Well?" questioned Mrs. Richards, and for the first time during the interview there was a querulous note in her voice. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Less querulous observers might counter that by freeing him of family cares, she enabled him to father the Reagan Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Gipper's 'Long Goodbye'] Reference
Tory had placed her hands on the back of the wheeled chair and was about to move on, when again a querulous voice interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
Whether querulous or imperious, attentive or overbearing, warm or waspish, surcease or succubus, she is as central as the sun. From Wordnik.com. [A New Roof On An Old House] Reference
M.B.O.U., one of our greatest authorities, says that its note is lower and more of a querulous murmur than that of the ringdove. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
They were building a nest inside our walls, itching, pin-pricking, squeaking to the querulous demands of their squat black queen. From Wordnik.com. [HOUSE OF DREAMS] Reference
Miss Lottie began but her mother broke in with an eagerness that was very different from the querulous way in which she usually spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
Nothing had developed save that José had worried himself into a fever, and the Señora Rodriguez's lamentations were tinged with a querulous resentment. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
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