A stammering voice in a thick brogue protested with the petulancy of intoxication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wings in the Night]

And the more permanent are the marks made by petulancy, hatred and selfishness thereon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Even at an age when prejudice and petulancy are apt to get the better of a man's judgment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

And the reasons why I am singled out for the object of his petulancy and spleen are too manifest to need repetition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference

Had this man, in their days, treated this doctrine with his present scoffing petulancy, he had scarce been rector of St George, Botolph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost] Reference

The President up to this time, although fighting against great odds, showed no impatience or petulancy, but the message brought by Mr. Glass was the last straw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

This at least puts a singular character upon this book, and represents it with such reverend awe and majesty that it is the highest petulancy not to pay it a sacred respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

The frequentation of courts checks this petulancy of manners; the good-breeding and circumspection which are necessary, and only to be learned there, correct those pertnesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

It would be sempiternal for us here to make a relation of all the petulancy and wickedness of Students, whereof these and other Parents, each in their particular, are miserably sensible of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference

He then asserts that this is an age in which poetry, and the professors of it, are so ill-spoken of on all sides because, in their petulancy, they have yet to learn that one cannot be a good poet without first being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference

Whereas McCain supported the war in Iraq from the start, supported the surge, supports the notion of preemptive war, sings about bombing Iran with a worrisome petulancy and wants us to stay in Iraq for 100 years if necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lesser Evils, Psychoses, and the Perils of Voting Your Conscience [Part 1]] Reference

Students, who for some petulancy, had been at Confession by the Mayor, and he with their vomiting up some Guinies, gave them their absolutions; but they perceiving that hereby their purses were cruelly weakned, and that the return of monies did not come according to expectation, took a resolution to get some revenge of him for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference

When, therefore, the Prince nevertheless believes that his betrothal to Nathalie has provoked the Elector's severity, he shows thereby that he has absolutely no comprehension of the dignity and necessity of the code of war, that consequently his violation of the ordinance could not have been caused by boyish petulancy, but by a grievous error, which, as an error, could be forgiven in a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference

To argue with him savors of petulancy or childish ignorance or egotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference

Her touch was magnetic, and petulancy vanished at her smile as at a charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference

G.B. You see this is Sir George himself, my dear; a mixture of petulancy and indelicacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph] Reference

Only that morning his wife had reflected his own mood with exaggerated petulancy when she had said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broken to the Plow] Reference

Since you do not allow petulancy of temper, nor any lightness of conduct, I should expect a continual revolution. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue] Reference

No one wants to be the grown up and work for the betterment of America; all of them prefer petulancy and belligerency to progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

I replied without petulancy, but with decision: 'I am not conscious of it, sir; but since you have thought it necessary to tell me so, we part.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True George Washington]

Thus men deceive themselves, and will submit to all the extravagant severities that the petulancy and folly of men can devise and impose upon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05.] Reference

With all her great sweetness of temper, she occasionally had moments of angry impatience and petulancy that seemed to transform her into another creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child of Pleasure] Reference

She had brains and ardour, she had grace and sweetness, a playful petulancy enlivening our atmosphere, and withal a refinement, a distinction, not to be classed; and justly might she dislike the being classed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

All of which the great minister would listen to reprovingly, and exhort his dejected royal master not to permit himself, who had vanquished the hosts of his enemies in battle, to be overcome by a woman's petulancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Paris] Reference

Miss Macgilligan had preceded her nephew in reaching home, and gave him, on his arrival, an appropriate and edifying lecture on a three-fold subject, embracing -- petulancy, -- respect to superiors, -- and veneration for the memory of our ancestors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference

Lady Hales differed from the Do ∨ flic thought the young men of the age found more attractions in the bottle than in her own fex; and fhe infilled upon it with fomc petulancy, that he would referve his fentiments for his more private lucubra - tions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The maid of Kent] Reference

With determination, thinly veiled by courtesy, she walked and talked and drove and sat with the pair, never leaving them alone together for one moment, which strict chaperonage Dolly resented, and complained of to a friend with as much of petulancy as she ever showed, tossing her pretty head with an air of defiance as she told of Aunt Lydia's foolishness, and spoke of her new friend as a "handsome young man with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten American Girls From History] Reference

Of petulancy; she called him lord and liege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idylls of the King] Reference

Was a discourse devoutly to be wished for! and the petulancy of my father’s humour, in putting a stop to it as he did, was a robbery of the Ontologic Treasury of such a jewel, as no coalition of great occasions and great men are ever likely to restore to it again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

Thou goest beyond thyself in petulancy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Becket and other plays] Reference

He errs from petulancy, but not from stupidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference

Afltivsiy, from their fcofEng and petulancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference