Hadrenn's voice contained the hint of a querulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Darksong Rising]
She appeared unfazed by his querulousness and his foul language. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness]
But I will not trouble the workers with the querulousness of old age. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
The querulousness with which he began the sentence melted into a rallying smile. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
There was an almost childish querulousness of tone in the old baronet's questioning. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
He had little patience with indecision, still less with querulousness and complaints. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Will this querulousness, this murmuring, this complaining and dissembling never be at an end?. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Her voice shifted to that of a powerful old man's, with none of the querulousness Skif expected. From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
Lope's success, of petulance and querulousness, and so on; and it was in this that the sting lay. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
And her way of listening and answering made me suspect that she was but too used to such querulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Sally May was a delicious Mrs. Bennet -- her archness, her querulousness, and above all her talkativeness. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
The querulousness of incompetent complaining natures confesses itself almost as much as in the tones of the voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
The old man from being cold and high, suddenly fell, as it were, into the whimpering querulousness of extreme old age. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
He stood staring at Ishmael, then spoke in a husky, uncertain voice that went suddenly from gruffness to a high querulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Hence they are querulous, and not disposed to jesting or laughter-the love of laughter being the very opposite of querulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
The call-notes of the Chicadee are very lively, with a mixture of querulousness in their tone, that renders them the more pleasing. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
Surprise for a time held the old woman speechless; a look of sorrow and affection drove the querulousness out of her face and voice. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
It represented reaction against the querulousness, the vagueness, the mere prettiness which have so often resulted in nauseous verse. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
What mattered, he knew from his painstaking studies, was the intensity with which it was delivered, and whether querulousness was implied. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
Strength in the middle of their morbid querulousness there. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5] Reference
Her querulousness was not so much ill-natured as plaintive. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle's Heart] Reference
But with the querulousness of old age Judy scouted the idea. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Daylight] Reference
Edwin demanded, with the querulousness of one who is losing hope. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
But she roused up into querulousness at this speech of her husband's. From Wordnik.com. [North and South] Reference
Between the querulousness of the one and the ferocity of the other, poor. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Yet no weakness, no querulousness disgraced the noble close of that noble career. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
He answers them with some dignity and simplicity, and with a little querulousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Yet no weakness, no querulousness, disgraced the noble close of that noble career. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5] Reference
And all this oppressed her much more than the querulousness of her stepmother's words. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
Three years more, and the cry of discontent and peevish querulousness reaches its height. From Wordnik.com. [The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850] Reference
But querulousness was now grown habitual, and he cried out when he probably had ceased to feel. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference
There is a bitter sneer on Dryden's effeminate querulousness in Collier's Short View of the Stage. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
There is throughout a note of querulousness which weakens one's sympathy for the hero of a lost cause. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the United States] Reference
Forgetting everything, his baseness and deceit, her mother's querulousness, and her father's sorrow, she smiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Forged Coupon] Reference
Hence we may trace in it a tone of exaggerated querulousness, and complaint that the soldiers were ungrateful to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Great Retreats of History] Reference
Happen what might in the world beyond her doors, Mrs. Cross led the wonted life of domestic discomfort and querulousness. From Wordnik.com. [Will Warburton] Reference
"What Happened?" lacks that depth; in its place there's an irritating querulousness that reminds me of bottom-shelf Lou Reed. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Mrs. Quincy turned over in the lumpy bed which she and her daughter shared and said, with a querulousness undiminished by her sleepiness. From Wordnik.com. [Jewel Weed] Reference
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