| 单词 | fretful |
| 例句 | As I wrote and blotted many phrases, lamenting my dull wits, Gertrude appeared at the door of her chamber, looking fretful. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Ralph sat up in his wagon, his hat crooked on his head, and he was fretful. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, “I have looked over it. In Heaven’s name, don’t harp upon it!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The old man shook his head, wearing, for a moment, the same touchy, meditating frown of the fretful and disapproving old woman. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He was fretful as he laid himself down to sleep that night, hoping that she would return. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He concluded with an Adams salvo against “the peevish and fretful effusions of politicians,” then signed off as “J.A. In the 89 year of his age still too fat to last much longer.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Most of the children were sick and sunburnt and fretful. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “What a trying world it is!” said Jo, rumpling up her hair in a fretful way. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Your kindness may be meanness now, and your bleak honesty fretful and conniving. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The president’s advisers in my opinion could be overly fretful about appearances. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, Poppy woke up and made fretful noises, and Lina gave her the last of the peas in Doon’s pack. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I lay there in bed, mad and fretful all day, thinking how silly it was for Lisbeth to expect me to want a pup when I already had me a full-grown dog. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman was lost in a fretful sleep. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The day before, an old woman who’d seemed anxious and fretful had come. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He was too tense to sleep, even if the telephone could be silenced—too fretful and frustrated. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greek was very fretful, and kept finding fault with the fruit drinks and food that Singer prepared for him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Those who had driven into town felt fretful about getting home. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It made Pheoby think of Sam waiting for her and getting fretful. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z A woman hushed a fretful baby with a pacifier. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z People brought her their sick piglets and their lame horses, their coughing children and fretful babies. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Long periods of rain were the teachers’ despair, as the children couldn't go out and the teachers had to supervise indoor play, and everybody became frustrated and fretful. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She had let herself become fretful for no good reason, and was reminded of how she had foolishly imagined bandits might board the train on the day she arrived at Ashton Place. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The cheerful and fretful noises of children being readied for bed drifted to us as we returned to the kitchen. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael’s heart began the fretful pounding he’d experienced of late in her presence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They just heard him moving inside the dark house, then they heard the granddaughter’s voice, fretful and querulous: ‘Who is it? Light the lamp, Grandpaw’ then his voice. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the fretful Szilard could not have been unhappy with the pace of action that followed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They are not fretful, nervous, or shrill; they do not have lovely black necks that stretch as though against an invisible collar; their eyes do not bite. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The door stood open, from within came the sound of a baby’s fretful crying. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z A chorus of nervous, fretful snickers ran through the high-ceilinged room when it was suggested they “give Bobby a chance.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was fretful, living from moment to moment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She had all the signs of fretful overexcitement, and it was made worse by her long confinement in this stuffy cabin. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He lay on the brass bed and went back in time over his sullen and miserable childhood and his fretful and vicious growing up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And all this fretful conjuring about prospective mishaps and crises, she scolded, was unbecoming a man who would be first magistrate of the nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But he remained fretful at night, whimpering often, needing frequent attention. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Her decision to take on the challenge, she told me, was driven in part by the fact that she’d become so fretful about the state of politics in the U.K. and beyond. On the Campaign Trail with Cornelia Parker, the U.K.’s Official Election Artist 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Stanley Bard, the hotel’s fretful, anxious manager and impresario, who was booted out in 2007, was another of Ms. Rips’s protectors and mentors, albeit a distracted one. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z “The song is alive and joyful, yet fretful about a world gone wrong. It is a song that will never die.” Don McLean's 'American Pie' manuscript sells for $1.2 million 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z In most of Clouzot’s films what you remember are people in rooms, looking tense, fretful and often, like the twitchy truck drivers in “The Wages of Fear,” afraid for their lives. Henri-Georges Clouzot Retrospective at MoMA 2011-12-04T04:03:02Z Her character doesn’t appear on “Breaking Bad,” leading to fretful speculation that she may not survive her relationship with Jimmy McGill. We are all Kim Wexler: “Better Call Saul” and the painful realities of mid-career crisis 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z But as the West became more fretful, west Africans were quietly doing the opposite. Best practice 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Shouldn’t we have been suspicious of strangers, paranoid about germs and fretful about her safety? Journeys: Traveling in Southeast Asia With a Rock-Star Baby 2010-12-17T20:45:37Z When Allen Ginsberg performed at the Six Gallery reading in San Francisco 1955, he was a fretful, unpublished poet, a man approaching his 30th birthday with a nagging sense that time was running out. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and the voice of the Beats 2011-02-23T20:30:00Z McCarthy goes nicely pianissimo for a change, playing it fretful rather than shrewish. Review: Bill Murray Bestows Some Grace on St. Vincent 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Extravagant material and emotional resources are invested in the welfare and appeasement of fretful ancestors. Art Review: A Storied Paradise, Tempered by Reality 2011-05-30T21:33:34Z It is raspy, often hesitant, more conversational than rhetorical, and his quizzical eyes and fretful manner seem more suited to comedy than tragedy. Now Is the Rylance of Our Discontent 2013-11-27T10:45:21Z At times, all the individually sounded notes seem to melt into a single, blissful whole; then suddenly the fretful or anxious plucking of a violin or cello asserts itself. ‘Allegro,’ a Rarely Staged Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Having attained in midlife a fame he distrusted and a title — celebrity chef — he despised, Bourdain wavered between euphoric family man and fretful workaholic. ‘Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain’ Review: Salt, Sugar and No Fat 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z She also had trouble with fretful exhibitors and, ultimately, with producers. “A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “We’re in serious trouble, Spiggy,” a fretful Nixon says, applying a powder puff to his 5 o’clock shadow with one hand and holding lipstick in the other. Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z It’s also possible, of course, that these religious words simply activated related social concepts such as “benevolence” and “good deeds,” priming altruistic decision making independent of worrying about God’s fretful glares. Don’t trust the Godless 2012-07-01T15:00:00Z “Whatever you say, I’ll be,” he says to appease his fretful mother, leaving the audience to ponder a playwright’s first steps, which here make for a kvetch-filled evening that frustrates more than it fascinates. Review: ‘Comedy About a Bank Robbery’; ‘No Villain’; ‘It Is Easy to Be Dead’ 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z The Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, and sent the writer into hiding for nine years “a fretful, scuttling existence,” as he described it in his memoir, “Joseph Anton.” ‘Quichotte’ Is Salman Rushdie’s Latest. But the Act Is Getting Old. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Yet a whispering ominousness pervades this story, couched in fretful speculations and evasive references to earlier events, that suggests any one of its central characters might eventually implode. Review: Songs Say What a Family Can’t in ‘Sundown, Yellow Moon’ 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The narrator, a theoretical physicist, is fretful, introverted, a paragon of rationality; his wife, Nora, is exuberant, ethereal, a dervish of chaos. Review: In Paolo Giordano’s ‘Like Family,’ the Nanny Departs and Cracks Emerge 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z It is not until midway through that the unlived life of the fretful, self-absorbed Manhattan narrator emerges as worthy of close examination. 'By Nightfall': Michael Cunningham's story of beauty's power to transfix and delude 2010-10-07T18:40:00Z Depressive graduate students, loaded with debt and fretful about diminished job prospects, fasten on to the futility running through the plays. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z “People are fretful of bringing children to the museum,” she said. Increasingly, Women Are Running the World’s Great Museums 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z She paces in frenzied circles, collapses onto the floor in brooding meditation and folds piece after piece of small paper with fretful, concentrated industry. Review: A Captive Emily Dickinson in ‘Because I Could Not Stop’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Her Sally offers a study in psychic depletion from her fretful arrival. Sondheim’s ‘Follies’ Is Back, at Once Bleak and Beautiful 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z My fretful thoughts floated in a balloon above me as I went around and marveled at the fact that I was so strong I never cried, or got too mad, or orgasmed, for that matter. My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z The dealers who occupied many of the seats looked tense and fretful. Auctions: When Auction Estimates Go Haywire 2011-10-07T11:30:11Z And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage. Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt: unplugged and unscripted 2011-06-10T15:49:07Z More important: Knowing why “gubernatorial” conceals its “softer, silkier, cousin, ‘govern,’” means that you, fretful thesaurus user, will deploy these and other words with more lively precision from now on. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Once seated in his anchorman chair, he is fretful, peevishly checking how much of his shirt cuffs protrude from his jacket. Review: An Electrifying Bryan Cranston Is All the Rage in ‘Network’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z With a face that suggests Rondo Hatton crossed with Richard Kind, he appears to be a dim, lumbering giant; then his anger softens to reveal a fretful generosity of spirit. A Punkster Hansel & Gretel: That Witch Does Not Kill Us 2013-01-25T21:25:50Z Playing a Superhero, Yes; Typecasting, No BURBANK, Calif. — The actor Michael Chiklis, wearing a suit jacket riddled with bullet holes, seemed fretful, though not about the bullets. Playing a Superhero, Yes; Typecasting, No 2010-09-24T22:30:00Z The political press is more fretful about the continued survival of the “moderate Republican” than they are the giant panda. Stop mooning over John Kasich: He’s not more “reasonable” than Trump, he’s just better at camouflaging his agenda 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z She scorns her husband's fretful conscience, yet she's the one who ultimately falls victim to remorse. Toil and trouble, and missed connections, in 'Macbeth' at Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Leino’s physical carriage — from her convincing athleticism to the way the actress plays her fretful wallflower with her eyebrows knitted together like a pair of mittens — captures her character’s determination. ‘Girl Picture’ Review: Teens on Thin Ice 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z For all my fretful kicking at the air and scratching at my own face, my saving grace was beauty. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z Like Fitzgerald, the magazine was determined to capture the fretful, sad-sack glamour of the nineteen-twenties; it also wrote about the rich young men who drove their naiadic girlfriends to speakeasies in long, low cars. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Imperfect Romance with The New Yorker 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Writing in the present tense, Fei begins on the fateful October morning when everything changed for her — when she went from an expectant mother of one to a fretful, even reluctant mother of two. In ‘Girl in Glass,’ mom of ‘distressed baby’ takes on Huffington, the system 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Then his father appears and begins to mutter phrases into his fretful son’s ears. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z IN the days before the instantly pinged “OMG Where R U?,” the first words many teenagers composed during their fretful moments were “Dear Diary.” Studied: Blogging as Therapy for Teenagers 2012-01-27T20:14:11Z News of the recruitment of Phoebe Waller-Bridge to polish the script of the 25th James Bond film was met with relief from fans fretful about the film’s hitherto bumpy pre-production. Phoebe Waller-Bridge: new Bond film must 'treat women properly' – even if he doesn't 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s a rare moment of immersion and Jenkins also manages to convey love’s fretful early glances and a sculptor’s gentle work with a balanced gravity. If Beale Street Could Talk: Barry Jenkins shows that more is less 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Blanche de la Force, a nervous, fretful young aristocrat, seeks to join an order of Carmelite nuns to quiet her mind and find refuge amid the chaos of the French Revolution. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z But it cohered, because Schubert was at his least fretful under Mr. Denk’s fingers, waltzing along for the most part and constantly undercut by unexpected phrasing or harmonic emphasis. Jeremy Denk Knits a Dialogue in His 92nd Street Y Recital 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Some songs are about the pleasures of the night, others about fretful, early-morning regret. Edinburgh festival from dusk till dawn 2010-08-11T20:31:00Z On the furry surface he’s proud and self-reliant, but with a possible addiction to catnip: “Because of my glaucoma,” he protests. And in a crisis he’ll revert to his fretful, big-eyed kitten look. Antonio Banderas in Puss in Boots: One Cool Cat 2011-10-28T12:28:52Z The workers at their desks are bored, lonely, fretful. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z Fans are fretful as the chairman considers a controversial plan to bring in much-needed cash to balance the books. Harold Brighouse's The Game: Pampered stars, bankrupt clubs ? a tale of football in the 1920s 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z Among the honking taxis, flashing lights, and fretful pedestrians, I would swim. The Swimmer: Manhattan Edition 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z I suspect that your own engagement, worry and anxiety over his behavior and the sibling relationship keep you a passive and fretful witness. Perspective | Ask Amy: Adult kids’ fights always involve the folks 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Szwed is an ideal match for his fretful, protean subject. Books of The Times: He Heard America Singing 2011-01-30T17:14:05Z Looking like a bag man coming off a bender, Shelly talks in a fretful, rambling singsong voice that sometimes gets stuck on a word like a phonograph needle. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z Somebody even lent the girth a fretful name: “peak TV” — the “money can’t buy happiness” of screen life. ‘Friends’ Is Turning 25. Here’s Why We Can’t Stop Watching it. 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Donna Costello joins Ms. Hayes and Ms. Hollis for some fretful twitching, a sensation taken to frantic heights in another solo that is less a dance than a seizure. Dance Review: Snippets of Sensation, Clanging Violence and Raging Solos 2010-09-19T23:14:00Z “Everybody’s coming to my house/And I’m never gonna be alone,” he sings on Broadway in “American Utopia,” half joyful, half fretful, still open. David Byrne, the Artist, Is Totally Connected 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The angel is fretful — children aren’t supposed to see their snow angels. Why Snow Casts Such a Spell 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Henry has been told all his life that he is more than mortal, and Mr. Parker conveys the fretful superstitiousness, as well as the narcissism, that such status confers. Theater Review: Royal Shakespeare Company Adapts 2 Hilary Mantel Novels 2014-01-22T22:33:43Z What has actually got Nemes fretful is, it turns out, computers. Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The angular guitar lines on Sounds Like Balloons and Little Hospitals seem nervous and fretful. Biffy Clyro: Opposites – review 2013-01-24T15:29:01Z The more fragile that boundary gets, the more fretful we grow. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Cameron’s determination is admirable, but after several scenes of her fretful efforts, I did begin to question her productivity. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: Please, Hurry Up and Kill the Bird 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z And what happened to Albert Brooks, who won most of the awards from critics’ groups for turning from fretful comedy to gangster stolidity in Drive? 2012 Oscar Nominations: Who Will Win? 2012-01-24T16:24:15Z Oh, and Frange, a fretful, fastidious type, can’t help interrupting the proceedings occasionally to interview an actor about the play’s interpretation. Theater Review: ‘Victor Frange Presents Gas’ at St. Mark’s Church 2012-08-27T21:31:31Z That plot twist aside, though, the show put bipolar disorder mostly on the back burner in Seasons 5 and 6, keeping Carrie on her meds and painting her as more fretful and anguished than erratic. ‘Homeland’ Season 7: Once Again, It’s All Up to Carrie 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Tanner’s dramatic painting, in which a slightly disheveled and fretful Mary cowers before an angelic apparition, is one of the key works in the museum’s “Represent: 200 Years of African American Art.” ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Pollock's indulgence of alcohol, perhaps fueled by anxiety over his success, was no doubt further powered by fretful fears over his experiments' merits. 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,' in Dallas, is exciting and enlightening 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The shoe collection sits at the top of the white marble staircase: marvelously fretful details wrought out of silk, crystals and chemically peeled reptiles. Critical Shopper: At Dior, a New Look That?s More of a Sneer 2010-12-29T20:50:03Z There is a similar fretful impatience to the way Anna Chancellor's steely Amanda brushes aside her new husband's eager kisses. Private Lives – review 2012-09-30T16:45:01Z A fretful boy, Akutagawa, “afraid of the dark, afraid of the light,” found refuge in books. His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The most vivid one here is the fretful and class-concerned “Childs Play”: Review: On ‘Views,’ Drake Is Still His Own Genre 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z “Sunshine on the issue is the best disinfectant,” she had been telling fretful colleagues. ‘These are all fake news,’ said the honor student. He was wrong. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Dyer, as the surly top thug, and Mr. Freeman, as his fretful second banana, enjoyably elicit the music-hall rhythms of these squabbling criminals, without milking the laughs. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z His ear for fretful, jumpy, funny dialogue is painfully good. Tough luck leads to angsty laughs in ‘Sons of the Prophet’ 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The mission of the four charmingly fretful performers onstage, should they choose to accept it, is to create the world — or at least the human consciousness that allows a world to be perceived. Review: ‘Germinal’ Sheds a Light on Creativity and All Creation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z A much larger crowd, the “Finding Nemo” audience, knows him as the cute, fretful voice of an animated fish. Books of The Times: A Wry Eye on Problems of the Future 2011-05-01T22:22:50Z A metaphor of maternal instincts drives Hickson’s plot, and Eaton’s forceful, fretful May is a kaleidoscope of survival instincts as the story hurtles across generations. Review | The British hit ‘Oil’ strikes a vein in its U.S. debut at Olney 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Excellent supporting performances by Clancy Brown and Dan Waller as Henry’s rivals get lost in Quaid’s fretful overplaying; his face is a balloon of anxiety that could pop at any moment. Postcards from the Festivals: Seven Films at Toronto and Venice 2012-09-15T12:00:50Z Let the gentle splash of timeworn phrases dropping neatly into place soothe your fretful mind. Harbour Lives – review 2013-07-13T06:01:05Z My review of comedian Josie Long at Soho Theatre elicited only one comment, but it was a sensible one – taking issue with my feeling that Long is too fretful about being seen to be political. Spike Milligan's not so final punchline – and Have I Got News For You goes Stateside 2012-11-13T17:01:19Z She plays Natalya with the pinched, fretful air of a studious college sophomore facing a physics final. Theater Review: ‘A Month in the Country,’ at Williamstown Theater Festival 2012-08-10T23:46:48Z But he remains fretful over the lack of perspective in his movie, and still yearns to revisit it and "get rid of that dishonest ending". Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon? 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z Another paper put it this way: “An old maid is one of the most cranky, ill-natured, maggoty, peevish, conceited, disagreeable, hypocritical, fretful, noisy, gibing, canting, censorious, out-of-the-way, never-to-be-pleased, good-for-nothing creatures.” Women of a Certain Age, Gail Collins Has Your Back 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z “Suspended Sentences” further reminds us, in these fretful days, of Mr. Modiano’s close interest in anti-Semitism in France, and in the lingering aftershocks of the Nazi occupation. ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Paste magazine recently posed the fretful question: "Is Indie Dead?" The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z Last Friday was a pretty fretful day: it was the last that schools were open and I was staring down the barrel of having three kids under five at home while I continued to work. In these strange times, there’s no better place to relax than the 90s | Hadley Freeman 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z “Do You Know Where You’re Going To,” another No. 1 hit, raised the age bar from fretful teen to disillusioned adult, and the stakes from failed romance to existential chill. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z You might also have hoped for a bit of insight into life on the threshold of adulthood in today's fretful Britain. Submarine plumbs the depths of self-satisfaction 2011-03-21T10:31:19Z The times hardly seem wrong for a fretful epic about truth and lies, the fictions governments learn to spin, and the truths that powerful figures rewrite or ignore. Review | This Putin learns the power of lies in ‘Describe the Night’ 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z So as we entered the mysterious RV campsite just before midnight, they didn’t have to see their mother bug-eyed with fretful thoughts. How I learned to stop worrying and love RV-ing Sculptors never stopped depicting the serenity of gods and the perfection of youth, but they also encompassed the old and infirm, the anxious and careworn, the fretful and thoughtful. National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Though they have become expert at fretful optimism and pre-grieving, the parents can be chaperones but not confidants. REVIEW: "The Fault in Our Stars" Earns Its Big Fat Tears 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Most editors of “Hamlet,” for instance, silently translate “porpentine” to “porcupine” without incurring outrage, though whether the porcupine is “fretful” or “fearful” depends on whether you follow the folio or the second quarto. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In conversation he avoided eye contact, and grew so fretful about the problem he was reluctant to leave the Jackson family home. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z And while they try to be supportive, they turn fretful when the Mother says the baby she is bearing is a boy. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Catalabutte, is soliloquizing himself up into a lather of fretful anticipation — all at the same time, all in mime gestures, and all endearingly human. Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Spurs American Ballet Theater to Work on the Details 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z In Six Feet Under she darkened the mood yet further when she turned up in the second series as the fretful and furtive Lisa. Lili Taylor: 'I knew Harvey Weinstein was a pig. I didn't know he was a rapist' 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Stewart was reluctant to film the scene, fretful about his ability to kiss passionately after years away from acting while fighting in the war. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z But as she goes through the motions, she also seems increasingly detached from everyone and everything in her life, including her fretful husband. ‘Clemency’ Review: No Place for Mercy 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The court heard the incidents left him "fretful" and "fearful" about his safety. Sir Gavin Williamson 'felt threatened' by man, court hears 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z You might think that the moderates among House Republicans — there are a few — would be repelled by that endorsement and, fretful of a backlash in their swing districts, unite to prevent Jordan from winning. Opinion: Jim Jordan should never be House speaker. Here's why 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Few, the ever fretful coach, seemed pleased not only to be spared the weight of expectations, but also in the knowledge that his team has blossomed as the regular season draws to a close. Gonzaga storms into March with a new look and the same old goal 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Only long, fretful days haunted by many versions of the same question. Perspective | After a game of what-ifs and second-guesses, Philadelphia and the Eagles party on 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z “Clearly, he’s been put in charge for the first time ever,” Short says during one of Martin’s fretful checks on Sonny’s whereabouts. Steve Martin and Martin Short mix it up on 'Murder,' mirth and ... 'Melrose Place'? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Michael grapples with pain, anger and fretful acceptance as he takes on the challenge of being an unattached gay man in his 40s in New York City. New this week: ‘Not Okay,’ ‘Amber Brown’ and ‘Honor Society’ 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Such decisions have left many investors holding Russian stocks fretful for the future of their assets, with little to no options to cut or exit positions in the near term. Trades in Russian shares show investors testing the exits 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z He also had a message for fretful Americans, asking for their patience. In Asia, Biden pushes values he struggles to sell at home 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z By the 2000s, conservative publications were publishing fretful pieces about the "Last Days of Adoption." Adoption means abortion just isn't necessary, SCOTUS claims: That's even worse than it sounds 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Meetings are held about how and whether to respond; fretful talent partners must be reassured. Disney, Built on Fairy Tales and Fantasy, Confronts the Real World 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Honestly, the most fretful part of the weekend centered around the 25-year-old kid facing shiny new pressure with a strangely fading fastball. Plaschke: Dodgers in big trouble if Julio Urías can't deliver quality innings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z But the text messages obtained by The Post show Skaggs was fretful about his health and apologetic about bringing up injuries with his agent. Tyler Skaggs’s agent urged him to pitch through pain for years before death, texts show 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Twelve more came from sixth man Trevor Keels, whose lone three-point make, from the top with 3:24 left, mended some nerve endings of the fretful Duke throng and briefly tied the score at 72. Duke surges past Michigan State to give Mike Krzyzewski one last trip to the Sweet 16 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z I wake up each morning, confront my various screens and think, ”Is this fretful ennui a symptom of Omicron?” Column: January ennui has never felt worse than this year. We need masks. But also ice cream 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Stoic, dignified and comforting, the queen’s words helped anchor the country during the fretful days that followed — not the first time the monarchy has acted as a stabilizing force for the government during tumultuous events. U.K. Monarchy and Government Plunge Into Simultaneous Crises 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The next morning, after a few hours of fitful, fretful sleep, the women went through the events again. Truth Is Elusive in Attack on a French Soccer Star 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The Biden administration has indicated that fighting inflation has become a top priority as polls show Americans have become more fretful about higher prices. Dollar Tree is raising prices 25% to $1.25 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The delay from home plate umpire Jansen Visconti left the fans standing in fretful anticipation. Mariners shut out Houston’s MLB-best offense again to claim series 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Dozens of fretful parents gathered outside the school Friday afternoon as they waited for their children to be released. New Mexico school year off to deadly start amid gun violence 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z This was extraordinarily prescient, and her words were even more devastating from the lips of a towering, right-wing world leader who couldn't be dismissed as a fretful hippy. Why North America's killer heat scares me 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Which take on inflation prevails — risk-focused, watchful, or less fretful — will have implications for the economy. Fed Unity Cracks as Inflation Rises and Officials Debate Future 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Sargent, for one, is fretful about a backlash. Diversity in modeling is no longer simply a matter of race and ethnicity, size and age. It’s everything and anything. Now, it’s McArthur’s turn to fly — and Behnken’s turn to spend that fretful time on the ground with their son, now 7. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to fly astronauts for a third time. But there is nothing routine about it. 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z In that production, he played Louis, the fretful Jewish clerk who dumps his HIV-positive boyfriend. 'Howling anger': How Angels in America and The Normal Heart confronted the Aids crisis 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z And he would call me, and sometimes he would call me in an agitated state because he was fretful about something. 'That was harsh': Philip Roth's biographer defends his book and his subject 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z As the match wore on, Tsitsipas won the longer rallies, while Nadal, looking fretful, started to press, trying to shorten points and committing errors in the process. Rafael Nadal toppled by Stefanos Tsitsipas at Australian Open 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Chelsea were bitty and fretful at times, and convincing at others, but there was no lack of effort or fight from the players. Aston Villa's Anwar El Ghazi strikes to earn draw as Chelsea stutter goes on 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Fernett, the contractor in Colorado, said he recently purchased a two-year supply of plywood and two-by-four planks at the request of fretful retailers. Boarded-up windows and increased security: Retailers brace for the election 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z If fretful Democrats were hoping that activists marching for Black lives would take a hint and take a break between now and election day, that’s not going to happen. Column: So what if Black activists become pawns in Trump's evil reelection plan? 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Someone’s patient daily labor ensured that shelves were stocked and toilets cleaned, floors scrubbed and invoices paid, that fretful bank managers were reassured and peevish customers sent away happy. Opinion | When it comes to denouncing violence, the issue isn’t lives vs. property 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z For a lot of fretful white people, not just Phil Collins fans, those words may be music to the ears. The Racial Anxiety Lurking Behind Reaction Videos 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Reyes’ friends and family and customers looked up to the sky, fretful that the balloons would get caught in a thicket of power lines and telephone lines. In San Bernardino, a legendary waitress gets a COVID-19-safe memorial, with tacos to go 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Imagine yourself as a relatively privileged white person exhausted by meritocracy — an overworked student or a fretful parent or a school administrator constantly besieged by both. Opinion | The Real White Fragility 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z And what a fascinating journey and narrative it is, as the fretful neophyte not only masters the intricacies of Texas hold ’em but also gains some profound insights about herself. Review | A psychologist finds herself at the poker table 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The masks, the social distancing, the fretful hand-washing, the aching withdrawal from friends and family — those steps are still the best hope of staying well, and will be for some time to come. Six Months of Coronavirus: Here’s Some of What We’ve Learned 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z By Matt Williams’s second year as Nats manager in 2015, Rizzo knew he had made a bad hire, getting a good man but a fretful introvert who withdrew from his team in bad times. Perspective | Remember when I fired Dave Martinez a year ago at this time? Forget it. 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Students have always felt fretful because of their weekly tests and the stigma of being held back a year. Italian lessons: what we've learned from two months of home schooling 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Those first few days, of course, were fretful and busy. Soccer’s Business Hasn’t Stopped. It’s Just Waiting for the New Prices. 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The fretful foursome decline to use the pool. Terrence McNally, celebrated playwright who chronicled gay lives, dies at 81 from coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Some friends are fretful, washing their hands every half-hour or putting on surgical gloves to open doors. Orderly, dour, cowed: how my beloved Italy is changed by coronavirus 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z He first rose to prominence in 2008 when a picture of his fretful face came to symbolize panic on the stock markets. Wall Street will see more wild days over coronavirus fears, says famous trader 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z By early January, campaigns were becoming fretful, asking when they were going to see the app. How the Iowa caucuses came ‘crashing down,’ under the watchful eye of the DNC 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z A red ribbon and a fretful man blocked the road to this village. Chinese villages walled off against outsiders as coronavirus toll mounts 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Even with seven machines, Carragher says queues at the Simons Center are long and fretful. ‘We need a people’s cryo-EM.’ Scientists hope to bring revolutionary microscope to the masses 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Srivastava, who is fifty, is an impassive man, but he looked a little fretful as he talked about the research. A World Without Pain 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z For a few years he tormented the city’s comedy clubs, in character as a fretful failed comedian named Ralph Handel; naturally, the brothers captured these appearances on film. The Safdie Brothers’ Full-Immersion Filmmaking 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Obama urged them to not to be fretful. Obama tells Democratic candidates to ease off talk of revolution 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Though highly attuned to the health care system’s deficiencies, the public has also been fretful that their political leaders will only succeed in making a flawed system worse. How ‘Medicare for All’ Went Mainstream 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z She was fearless where I was fretful, rebellious where I was conservative and dextrous where I was clumsy. Imaginary friends are a sign of a lively, creative mind. But they are leaving us | Daisy Buchanan 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Her boyfriend, Steve Michaels, is a little more fretful about the stunt cyclists, a reminder that he isn’t as young or stupid as he once was. Have a California moment at Neptune's Net, a landmark seafood shack in Malibu 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z But Johnson’s picks for the top table pointed to a decision to assemble an ideologically coherent top team, rather than placating fretful remainers. Boris Johnson takes his revenge and sacks over half the cabinet 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z You come to noir bars to escape a thankless and increasingly fretful world. Our favorite ‘noir bars,’ dark sanctuaries on a blistering summer day 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The result against a winless opponent does not absolve United from what became a fretful second half; the Rapids deserved a point after sustaining perpetual pressure. In picking up three points on the road, D.C. United proves adaptable under trying circumstances 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z At a frantic, slightly wild Etihad Stadium Manchester City defibrillated their own hopes of retaining the title with a 2-1 defeat of Liverpool that was by turns fearful, fretful and often funny. Sergio Agüero, the man with the grey-blue rinse, shines as City’s beacon 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Marcel Proust, one of literature’s great insomniacs, eerily captures how the sleepless mind misbehaves, tracing fretful loops, tying itself into epistemological knots, the way it grows confused and then suddenly certain. Can a sleepless night awaken creativity? 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z It's natural for Democrats to be fretful about the election after the trauma of Trump's unexpected victory two years ago. A referendum on Donald Trump: And what’s scary is we don’t know how America will choose 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z It was purportedly written by a senior official in the Trump administration who suggested a “quiet resistance” of fretful aides who were conspiring to protect the nation from an unstable president. ‘There’s a new sheriff in town’: Trump uses official events to wage campaign against press 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z It is always a political hot potato and now more than ever, adding another layer of worry for already fretful farmers. 'Trade not aid': farmers urge Trump to make a deal amid Nafta uncertainty 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Rushdie spent the next decade in hiding, under round-the-clock police protection, a life that he later described as “a fretful, scuttling existence.” How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, former Nationals manager Dusty Baker always seemed leery, bordering on fretful, of relieving Scherzer, especially mid-inning with his own runners left on base. Perspective | Nationals are wise to be playing it safe with their stars 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Even last year, on the morning after the Patriots’ fifth title, Belichick was fretful that their run through the playoffs had cost him precious time in preparing for the next season. Perspective | The Patriots will never win enough for Belichick and Brady 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z As moral panics about danger and depravity lost traction, popular tech criticism became nebulous and fretful, concerned with vague themes and forecasts. The Return of the Techno-Moral Panic 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z In Vietnam, at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Trump referred repeatedly to the importance of national sovereignty, a signal of support to smaller nations fretful about China. Trump is flattered across Asia, and flatters back, but returns with little in hand 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z In a frantic, fretful and unstable world, he is a voice of sanity, decorum, humanity and grace. My friend Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘an artist without ego, with deeply held beliefs’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Listen to Mr. Bliss’s delivery of the music’s most fretful passage: He manages to convey emotional distress while singing with elegant lyricism. null 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The storyline for another opening act at home followed a familiarly fretful and pressurised script, with Leicester leading 3-2 as the game tilted towards its conclusion. Olivier Giroud saves Arsenal from homemade chaos in Leicester thriller 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z His colleagues chalked it up to his fretful and frequently self-critical nature. Lessons in disaster: A top Clinton adviser searches for meaning in a shocking loss 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z And then, perhaps miraculously, the situation shifted from fretful to fateful. Taking ‘prefabricated construction’ to all new levels 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Belly laughs bounced around the canyons, and ping-ponged off the foreheads of fretful accountants. Of all the potential pals in the universe, I end up with these guys? Waiter, what's that dope doing in my soup? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z King was fretful about the delay; sponsors were clamoring for posts. #Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Intolerance seems ascendant, and foreigners are increasingly fretful. Opinion | Xenophobia-fueled shootings shatter Indians’ American Dream 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z He stops himself and just says, “I’m not fretful.” Opinion | America, meet the nuclear ‘football’ 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z IN HER role as agony aunt and columnist, Lucy Kellaway lectures fretful Financial Times readers on how to behave at work. A plan to turn high-flying oldies into teachers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z But each time he repeated these second-hand assurances, it triggered fretful questions among Nato officials about why Trump was not saying these soothing words himself. Obama has become a therapist for those suffering from Trump anxiety disorder 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The mood of the nation is reflected in the writers’ room, Mr. Bolton said, and the mood at the moment is fretful. How to Satirize This Election? Even the Onion Is Having Trouble 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The mood of the nation is reflected in the writers’ room, Bolton said, and the mood at the moment is fretful. How to satirize this election? Even The Onion is having trouble 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z There’s also a story about a gun, and another about his parents that he’s a little fretful about. Seattle’s Joel McHale: ‘Almost everything is good about being a celebrity’ 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The period leading up to the expansion draft in June should be especially fretful for teams boasting depth along the blue line. 5 Top Story Lines of the N.H.L. Season 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z These days such thinking holds sway in a commission fretful about the rise of anti-globalisation populists, like Marine Le Pen in France. Parliament plot 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z They looked out of time, fretful, unable to assert their qualities, to show any kind of leadership or drive. Roy Hodgson’s sickly imitation of old values leads to England’s uber-loss | Barney Ronay 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Welcome to France, Euro 2016 and football’s own slightly fretful summer of discontent. Euro 2016 – where the thrill of football wrestles with the politics of fear | Barney Ronay 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z They became cautious and fretful, and it was almost inevitable that Sweden would score. Republic of Ireland v Sweden: Euro 2016 – as it happened 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The timing of the fretful email was important. Ex-mayor Gray’s 2010 campaign chair worried about ‘off the books’ independent effort 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z It had been a seriously fretful 24 hours for Tuwei and others after the World Anti-Doping Agency’s unexpected decision on Thursday to suspend Kenya’s national anti-doping body over flawed legislation passed by lawmakers last month. Friday’s Sports in Brief 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z As sales of Humira rise by double-digit percentages each year, largely through price increases, investors are growing ever more fretful because its main U.S. patent lapses in December. AbbVie forges deeper into cancer, as clock ticks for Humira 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But the stifling security also felt like the fretful reaction of a leader unexpectedly confronting skepticism and negative scrutiny. Egypt’s Security Agents Smother Streets of Cairo to Prevent Protests 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z They became cautious and fretful, and it was almost inevitable that Sweden would score. Republic of Ireland v Sweden: Euro 2016 – as it happened 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z I don't want to appear "fretful," but wow. Letters to Calendar 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z For 90 minutes Tottenham and Arsenal didn’t so much punch holes in each other as engage in a full-body rain-sodden grapple just thee days after the last act in this fretful title run in. Only winners of the much-anticipated north London derby were Leicester | Barney Ronay 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z But, Mr. Harrison added, the budget workaround may not succeed in reassuring fretful Eastern European allies because it leaves the decision on what do about future military spending in Europe for the next administration. U.S. Fortifying Europe’s East to Deter Putin 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z A burst of form from their two best and most expensive players should be enough to bundle this occasionally fretful Arsenal machine through most of those 15 remaining fixtures. Manchester City have weapons to defy history and win Premier League title | Barney Ronay 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The other characters in the show all revolve around the New York Symphony like little fretful moons in cocktail attire clutching woodwinds. What is Mozart in the Jungle? A curious consumer’s guide to a show that exists 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Some owners are as fretful as preschool parents. In Cape Town, a Luxury Hotel Goes to the Dogs 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Patrick Njoroge, Kenya’s central-bank governor, said he was worried his country would be lumped in with others like South Africa by fretful investors after Fed raises rates. Fed Has Africa’s Central Bankers in Tight Spot 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Ministers were keen to condemn those organisations which might seek to foment discord in Scotland over asylum - but to distinguish between that and wider opinion among the fretful Scottish population. Paris attacks: Scotland's party leaders unite to oppose terrorism - BBC News 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z But fretful families want to hear competing offers from the various parties on the NHS, education and the economy. SNP conference 2015: Judging the Scottish government's record - BBC News 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Stamos plays restaurateur Jimmy Martino, an energetic, somewhat fretful human tornado who, when we meet him, is plucking a gray hair from his head as though it were a tick. New Fox sitcoms 'The Grinder' and 'Grandfathered' are done well 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z With Washington in field goal range and the clock inside six minutes, the crowd of 72,460, too fretful to yell for much of the day, finally found its voice. By roughing up the Rams, Washington reveals a blueprint for happy Sundays 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z It was a fretful year of existential crises — good seasoning for this series, for sure, but you don't want to over-salt the stew. The Doctor is in again, and in finer fettle than before 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Or, lest the Literals become fretful, a tiger. Hillary Clinton, you can’t manufacture trust 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z By sending the defense secretary to calm fretful allies, the administration can give the appearance of robust military support without actually committing American troops. As U.S. Allies Seek Military Support, Ashton Carter Offers Reassurance 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z But beyond those doubts, not everyone associated with the SEC is quite so fretful about the new season. The SEC, the Bully of College Football, Seems a Little Scared 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z But now, on our penultimate morning in Iran, as we waited for our meeting at the media company, we were nobbled by the representative of the Iranian travel agency, the pretty, fretful Ms Akhundi. ‘It’s not like Argo’: the trials of a tour guide in Iran 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The batsmen played fretful, frenetic cricket, and most of the wickets that went down owed more to faults in the mind than any serious failings in the surface. 'Spinners struggle as England slump' 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Beyond that, the closer the United States appears to get to Iran, the more fretful Sunni Arab allies become. U.S. Strategy in Iraq Increasingly Relies on Iran 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z What better moment to drill down and ponder the fretful contents of one’s sock drawer? Home Organization Advice from Marie Kondo 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z For God’s sakes, I’ve seen chihuahuas in handbags who are less fretful and shaking.” Graham vs. Graham on 'boots on the ground' 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z That may be why the Asians are so fretful. Jittery neighbours 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z But already Argentina looked a little fretful against these resilient, technically precise Iranians. Argentina through after Lionel Messi breaks battling Iran at the last 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z In isolation it represents little more than a gloriously gripping release of tension and a moment in the sun at the end of nine long and increasingly fretful years. Arsenal give Arsène Wenger possible end to era of almost but not quite 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z His remarks boosted the spirits of advocates who have become increasingly fretful that Republicans have been dragging out the process in an effort to kill momentum for a deal. House Republicans say they’ll act on immigration reform this year 2013-09-22T22:02:20Z Others report that international customers are now demanding higher prices, fretful of India’s wayward economy. India Ink: Poor Infrastructure Hampers India’s Export Chances in Downturn 2013-09-05T17:29:47Z That's not going to help the approximately 100 million Americans – one in three – either living in poverty or in "the fretful zone just above it", as the New York Times put it. 10 reasons the US economy is stuck 2013-07-24T12:30:00Z Beset by a barrage of strong serves and aggressive play by unseeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, Murray lost the first two sets before a fretful crowd. Murray rallies from 2 sets down to advance to semifinals 2013-07-04T02:43:33Z He was hapless when descending, frayed and fretful on the flat and capable only of clinging on when climbing. The Gruppetto: 24 hours at the Giro d'Italia 2013-05-16T23:37:28Z SAG HARBOR, N.Y.—This picturesque enclave on the eastern end of Long Island has lately been fretful about happiness. Looking for a Happy Place? Maybe Skip Sag Harbor 2013-05-04T02:33:16Z At a time when emerging powers are closing fast on a fretful West, a free-trade area covering America and the EU would offer something more. Lexington: A transatlantic tipping-point 2013-04-25T15:03:50Z Hughton appeared fretful, and the manager was dealt a further inconvenience when Anthony Pilkington pinged a hamstring on his first start since recovering from a similar injury suffered last month. Norwich City 0-0 Southampton 2013-03-09T17:15:18Z Nor did Kaepernick take long to make an impression on his team-mates in San Francisco, throwing the ball so hard that some players grew fretful to stand on the receiving end. Colin Kaepernick: Super Bowl XLVII braced for 49ers' ultimate competitor 2013-02-02T17:00:02Z For fretful parents the new devices may just mean still more grounds for worry. Modern families: Chips off the old block 2013-01-10T16:11:29Z Like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, the fretful marionettes pondered what life would be like without Sarkozy. France’s Poisonous Presents 2012-12-15T09:45:00Z It is tempting to imagine that every political leader harbors similar fretful and potentially prophetic musings about who would play the Cassius or Brutus of their own legions. Letter From Europe: The Dramas Within Britain's Parties 2012-10-08T11:18:57Z I’ve been nervous and fretful for weeks, knowing this was coming. Russell Harding’s Blog Chronicled His Fall From Grace and Plans for Suicide 2012-10-08T04:50:02Z Personally, I think many coaches are far too fretful about the effect of injury intelligence on their team. Practice, injuries and barred reporters, oh my! 2012-09-13T01:36:10Z When some fretful soul in the airport took fright, one would have hoped a superior would have calmed them down. Freedom of speech: Tweets, twits and liberty 2012-07-29T22:00:42Z Ramps, though, is a more complex animal, not just the last man standing, but the most charismatically unignorable of that generation of bruised and fretful 1990s cricketers. With Mark Ramprakash goes the last imprint of an era of cricket 2012-07-06T22:02:04Z Cohen said that on Monday night, Chen was undecided and fretful for his family. Chen Guangcheng Affair: U.S. Denies China Dissident's Account of Coercion 2012-05-02T21:05:13Z Then she would have described him as a very spoilt child, making allowance for his illness, he was fretful, selfish, exacting. A Soldier's Son 2012-04-27T02:00:37.640Z The bow in Sylvia’s hair dropped off, and with all the fretful obstinacy of fatigue she would go wandering back on their tracks to see if she could find it; but the bow was lost. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z I am sorry if I have seemed fretful of late. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z But the China that Xi Jinping, 58, will lead when — if all goes to plan — he becomes China's President in the fall is also a fretful place. Xi Jinping by Michael Elliott 2012-04-19T01:05:48Z It was the second time he had angled for a compliment, and failed; and he walked along at her side, fretful and discontented. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z A fretful, complaining Christian is a contradiction in terms. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z There was no long delay caused by looking for work in New York, which might have destroyed romance by its interposition of fretful hopes and disappointments. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z But she was not the type of woman who can forever wait patiently upon a fretful convalescent's whims. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z My little brother was fretful, and cried to see his mother. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z She looked at his handsome, sulky face, his knitted brow, twisted into fretful lines, and the cloud behind his blue eyes frightened her. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z Little Damaris was fretful, as she so often was, one afternoon early in March; the child was not strong and consequently was peevish. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z And with an invalid’s fretful intolerance he went on grumbling at the ineradicable characteristics of an English family four thousand miles away. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The waters were colorless, and were licked into fretful wavelets, on which the delicate pointed caiques swayed like leaves on a tide. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z I stooped down, and tried to talk to this baby, but it only cried in a fretful manner, as though frightened at finding itself with strangers, and turned away. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z "But, Lord Dynmore, you must be thinking of some one else!" replied the archdeacon in a fretful tone. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Myra once more uttered an impatient, fretful sigh, and sank down again, saying, "My feet are so dreadfully cold!" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z In the febrile stage the child is noticeably fretful for a period of perhaps twenty-four hours. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z His iron-gray hair bristles over his forehead like the quills of the fretful porcupine. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z No annoyance, great or small, the most painful illness or the most intolerable bore, could disturb his equanimity, or render him in the least degree sullen, or fretful, or discourteous. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z It was nothing unusual to see Miss Marcia and Miss Amanda each holding one of the fretful children, and making frantic endeavors to amuse their young relatives. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z For Example, the Patient many Days before-hand has a slight Cough; a small Oppression when he moves about; a little Restlessness, and is sometimes a little choleric or fretful. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z Then the man without these interior resources gives way, breaks down, becomes querulous, fretful, irritable, sour. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z She appeared very desirous of shaking off the attendance of a woman who was waiting upon her, and her whole manner indicated a sort of fretful unrest that it made one wretched to contemplate. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z But if either of them detect signs of patronage among their politer visitors, their backs are at once up; metaphorically their bristles stand on end like hairs upon the fretful porcupine. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z On the next Saturday she was not well, and kept her bed, and on the Sunday met him with the same fretful plea--she would do no business on Sunday! Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z "I don't care about coming!" exclaimed the child, in a low, fretful voice. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z It was the sea that was fretful when I looked at the islands, though they bristled with erected pines and cedars. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z To the curates some hints were given, but what with their obtuseness--they scarcely seemed to understand--and a fretful touchy disposition, noticeable in young men, nothing came of these hints. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z She lived in pain, but smiled through it, with her marble face and violet eyes and long silky lashes: and fretful or repining word never came from her lips. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z It really was shocking; no wonder if milady's quills of propriety stood out, after the manner of the fretful one. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Far from the fretful striving of the churlish world--its hate and jealousy and bitterness and disillusion--no call to arms or shock of war invades this calm retreat. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Fear overcame him, the perspiration streamed from off his brow, and his excessive emotion caused “each particular hair to stand on end, like quills upon the fretful porcupine.” Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Bazuzu watched him as he knelt, his face turned towards the west, and saw his fretful expression gradually soften to one of reverence and love as the melodious words left his lips. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z You used to keep me awake a good deal at night, and this sometimes made me nervous and fretful, though I was usually very happy with you. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Dickory, in growing old, had grown fretful and obstinate, and liked his own way and will better than that of his masters. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z To be sure they suited Rico's mood, but they depressed Silvio and made him extremely fretful. Heimatlos Two stories for children, and for those who love children 2012-01-22T03:00:23.673Z "I know what you have come for, Charles," she said in fretful tones, as I sat down near her. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z So he plodded along in his honest style, And he bettered himself each day, And he only said to his fretful wife, "We'll stick to the good old way." Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z If the child be tired or fretful, "Hush!" says the grandmother. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z "I am so tired and poorly all the time, I can't do any thing I want to, and it makes me cross," sighed Rose, rubbing the aching head like a fretful child. Eight Cousins Or, The Aunt-Hill 2012-01-15T03:00:12.507Z Perhaps there is the regular breathing hush of the scythe—even the fretful jar of the mowing machine. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z ‘Not one ruffle or ripple in the even stream of her temper,’ of this naturally anxious, and even fretful, girl. The Pilot's Daughter an account of Elizabeth Cullingham 2012-01-12T03:00:15.090Z Bless papa, dear Jesus, and cause him to see That Santa Claus loves us as much as does he; Don't let him get fretful and angry again At dear brother Willie and Annie. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z She was almost as pretty as Aunt Katie, though she was in a draggled wrapper more showy than tidy, and she seemed fretful and disposed to blame Charlotte on general principles. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z He doesn't know when the boat behind may be going to have a dash at him, it makes him fretful and it is hard to tell how fast he is going. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z With a rather peevish and fretful air he turned to them and said, 'Well, ladies, what can I do for you?' Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z The Widow had but only one, A puny and decrepit son; Yet, day and night, Though fretful oft, and weak, and small, A loving child, he was her all— The Widow's Mite. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z He concludes all this with warm eulogies on Newcastle's conduct of foreign affairs, and soothes and flatters the fretful duke with something like sympathetic regard. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Unless the immediate transition to Leach proves too fretful, the Cougars ought to be good for a 6-6 record and the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, which would keep alive Leach's streak of consecutive postseason teams. Mike Leach's arrival will make Cougars fascinating 2011-12-31T22:55:04Z I had left Astræa behind me in a depressed and fretful mood. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z No; she will have enough to do to tend it, feed it, and soothe it when fretful. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z There will come off days, fraught with petty annoyances, when each will have a fretful desire to hurl cameras and suit cases at his beloved playmate. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z A fine head of beautiful grey hair was the only attractive thing about her, her features were coarse and her countenance was fretful. Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children 2011-12-22T03:00:21.710Z The knowledge of this and the discomforts of the journey made the men fretful and anxious. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z As she rode her fretful horse she began to feel infinitely sorry for herself and indignant at Forbes. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Gratarol's fretful vanity and sense of self-importance made him boil with fury at the thought of being put upon the stage. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z He is wary, fretful, and suspicious, because he knows that all humanity is joined in a conspiracy to put him out of business. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z An' down th' middle of th' street Th' sheriff comes on toe-in feet, A-wishing for one fretful peek At Whiskey Bill. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Then round the wind would chop once more, and the sea wax fretful, angry, vicious, hitting the poor ship such vengeful blows, that she bent her head, and reeled and creaked in every timber. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z He was in one of his most fretful moods. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I carries one in case there's a fretful beast. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z There are too many children who are baulked of their mother's sympathy because she is busy or fretful, or of their father's, because he is stern. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z Then the fretful little cries brought back memory with a rush. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z His weary, fretful gaze sought the flowers, rested upon them a moment, and then turned deliberately away. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z Hysteria is a kind of fretful fatigue, and the wearier these children of joy were, the more reckless they grew. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z No sooner are they on the wing than they, one and all, commence a fretful, unhappy, chirl, not unlike the Redpoll's, but louder.' British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z New nurse; many callers; Lulu fretful, Anna tired, Father feeble,–hard times for all. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z He had died the glorious death, and no future, tangled, perplexed, fretful with its foolish burden, lay before him. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z All told, that places 100 million people — one in three Americans — either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it. Census Measures Those Not Quite in Poverty but Struggling 2011-11-19T03:29:25Z He ceased, with a wail Like some complaining wind among the pines Or pent among the fretful ocean caves, A sick, sad sound. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z Infants, when they are not really sick, frequently cry from some incidental annoyance, and not from a fretful disposition. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Let nothing make thee sad or fretful, Or too regretful; Be still; What God hath ordered must be right, Then find in it thine own delight, My will. A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico 2011-11-11T03:00:32.153Z Not seldom there is an elder child too, white and weak and fretful, and the subject of "infantilism"; growth stunted, development arrested. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z It comes in very handy, too, sometimes, when the two lions up there become fretful and uneasy. The Star People 2011-11-06T02:00:16.133Z I curse Fate too, The deaf blind Fury, taking human souls And crushing them, as a dull fretful child Crushes its toys and knows not with what skill Those feeble forms are feigned. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z Many a time have I surreptitiously carried a fretful child to my bed, and settled down with it comfortably, as I thought, and then had it gently but firmly taken from me, despite my expostulations. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Ever since his ears were pierced, Adonis had been fretful and snappish. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z With the air of one who does a ridiculous thing to please a fretful child, he slid down the bank and walked into the water. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z He continues in the same fretful tone from the first line to the last. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Shakspere, describing the effects of fright, speaks of its causing "Each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest 2011-10-13T02:00:39.777Z They are often so suspicious when they are ill and fretful, and some of them are downright brutes. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z She peered over the balustrade from the second story, with big, black-rimmed eyes, but could not come down, could not leave baby, who was fretful, she said. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z Nor let them suppose that when I charge them with apathy in this good cause, I am indulging any feelings of personal disappointment, or moved by any fitful, fretful, or angry thoughts towards them. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z I dance my shadow on the wall to amuse the children if they are fretful, and tell them stories when the wind moans down the chimney and would frighten them if it could. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z Say, why should I fretful my fate so lament, Since pleasure still waits on the smile of content? Jemima Placid or, The Advantage of Good-Nature 2011-09-25T02:00:16.800Z Accustomed as he was to be in the open air, he grew fretful and lost his appetite; Josephine had many a fight with him and at last had to be severe. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z The fretful look in the small round eyes signified that his mind was grappling with a problem. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z It was fretful work, like trying to lace up your shoes with one hand. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Hence, presently, from under one of the windows, she heard a weak, but fretful and angry voice, morosely giving impatient reprimands to some servant, while imperiously refusing to listen to even the most respectful answer. The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z High mettled or fretful horses, it is often necessary to soothe, and timid ones to encourage. The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation 2011-09-17T02:00:28.437Z The energetic enemy had slightly over-exerted himself, and was taking a fretful sort of rest, something like that of old Jack Falstaff when his little expeditions had not been marked successes. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z But all was vain and troubled and misty in my mind, and love—or its fretful changeling—weighed on my heart heavily. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z She sapped the strength of the Roman Empire, she overthrew the dominion of the Greeks, and now, after a period of fretful wedlock, she was shaking herself free from the Turk. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z His affairs seemed to advance not too favorably, for he was angry and fretful. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Thoroughness has always been one of the great German virtues—so he reminded himself while sitting in the rather airless ambulance, and listening to his high-born patient's fretful remarks. The Red Cross Barge 2011-09-05T02:00:20.603Z When a fretful child suddenly falls into quietude and deep slumber, an isleswoman will say that it is because of the Smoothing of the Hand. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Nothing is so unworthy of a Christian as a fretful spirit, a gloomy temper, a sour, morose-looking face. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z No longer, as when a fretful prisoner, did I think their quiet shining was a reminder of man's minuteness in the schemes of God. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z You are nothing but a little fretful porcupine. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z He is doing well, has slept well since his medicine began to take hold this morning, and now he's awake and inclined to be fretful. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z She was wondering if this crew of unsavory relations-in-law lived on Mr. Cater’s earnings; she knew his wife as a pretty, fretful woman with a discontented mouth. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z A murmuring or fretful word should never cross the lips of one who has Christ for his portion, and who stands identified with that blessed One in His position and His destiny. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z It was half of a peach-pit, which, when lined with soft paper, made an excellent bed for the fretful baby mouse. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z The Harveys' little girl was very weak and fretful. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z "What a trying world it is!" said Jo, rumpling up her hair in a fretful sort of way. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z Also, When I see a dog coming towards me I invariably Whisper "Bite," And consequently My hair Is apt to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porcupine At pretty well every canine approach. Outlook Odes 2011-08-16T02:00:47.257Z The powdery dust rose from beneath her feet and was drifted over the wayside grass and weeds by the fretful breeze. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z The disappointment, coming on the heels of the hope that had been roused, had made him fretful and angry. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z Suffering had made her fretful and terribly nervous, especially of death, which she always imagined to be coming soon to her. Niece Catherine 2011-07-30T02:00:13.927Z I am nothing but a fretful, selfish, old woman, a burden to everybody, without chick or child to care what becomes of me.” A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z ‘Yes, for sure, out of temper enough,—quite peevish and fretful.’ Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z My poor mother is a little fretful, as you saw; but she has been an invalid now these seventeen years, and she misses some of the comforts of the past. The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z This fretful querulousness manifested itself more than once in the early stages of the voyage. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z We will not be fretful and complain of having our morning sleep disturbed; we will be contented, and will only say that it is time to get up. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z Will you help an old woman to get the better of her fretful temper?” A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z It was very playful, but when I began pushing it about, as one might roll a big beer barrel, it indulged in a fretful growling, which much amused us. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z And Harriet! why, when Harriet was ill with fever she was petulant and fretful at times, but there were other occasions where she was sweet and grateful. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z He was alternately dependent upon her and fretful at her presence.... The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z The baby’s that fretful 390 that I don’t know what to do with her. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z The echo of the fretful voice followed the carriage as it drove away from the door, and as Bertha waved her hand, a shadow of compunction fell over her face. A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z She had been so often reproved as fretful and ill-tempered, whenever in tears, that she always checked and concealed them. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z After fretful hours of watching the cloudy, threatening skies, they were rewarded. Tailgaters swamp Fla. in festive but wistful throngs to see shuttle launch one last time 2011-07-08T18:42:37Z Here and there you discover a fretful thick-bodied pug, with his upthrown snub nose, which the popular speech styles a saddle-nose. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z This pays for the fretful nights and nervous days while the bile haz been hatching. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z His cough, his pale cheeks, his fretful nights were a thing of the past. The Brute 2011-06-30T02:00:30.283Z This fretful soliloquy took place nearly two years after the coming of those miserable books of Lord Cramer's into Dr. Macrae's life. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z She pushed them about with a vicious force, as though she hated the inanimate offenders; her expression was sullen and fretful. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z You will not take it ill of me," continued he, "if I appear perhaps too fretful in my present circumstances. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Lucinda made no reply, and after a moment of dumb staring at the ceiling a shadow of complacency modified Nelly's fretful look. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z What Dot had begun to call the “fretful silver bracelet” was a very live topic. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z For the mind has malignant contagious diseases, as well as the body, and the black silent sulk or the fretful complaining in the study passed readily into every room of the gloomy household. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z He resolves manfully to rally his moral powers, to banish over-passionate and fretful feelings and to put himself on a right footing with the world. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z She had been capricious and fretful since Mr. Hamlin's death, and it may be that she embraced the dead man again in her brother's arms. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z The opposite of all these qualities may be found in the "expensive"-looking railing on the Embankment enclosing the gardens, whose tiny fretted and fretful forms invite an experiment often successful. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z “It—it’s fretful silver,” replied the littlest Corner House girl. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z She became a little petulant, fretful from balked curiosity. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z Unluckily, Bettina wasn't hungry, and she grew rather fretful at being urged to eat more than she wanted. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Happily was it that he was exempt from all those fretful, fractious feelings to which aged people are occasionally subject. Diary of Ezra Green, M.D. from November 1, 1777, to September 27, 1778 2011-05-25T02:00:23.427Z Richard Jones had but that one child, that peevish, sickly, fretful little daughter; but she was his all. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z “Have we got to give her back this fretful silver bracelet, Tessie?” The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z So busy was she with her observations, that a fretful, peevish, but decidedly masculine voice near by startled her as if from a doze. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z Octave was impatient, fretful, and exacting; they were tantalising and disobedient. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z He is no longer the fretful author of “The New Timon,” “The Spiteful Letter,” and “Literary Squabbles,” who lacked the restraint of entire self-possession. Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z "I'm so tired!" peevishly said Mary, the fretful apprentice. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z In the brief silence a sick child's fretful cry rolled through the adjoining sleeper, then the train thundered into a tunnel. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z And his Nemesis sits at home, querulous and fretful because her establishment is more modest than her ambition, her possessions than her pretensions. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z He was a small, lean man, with a pale face deeply lined by ill-health and a fretful temperament. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z "A lady to see you, mother," said the young woman, hushing her fretful baby and looking curiously at the veiled face. Sir Noel's Heir A Novel 2011-04-24T02:00:07.013Z This fretful, pettish child heard her sentence with some wonder, but apparently without sorrow. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z The observation may have been purely fretful, but we believe that it arose from a deeper psychological cause than mere want of appreciation—the timid sympathy of insanity. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Sometimes she is fretful and complaining, on the outlook for slights and injuries, so suspicious of those surrounding her that they feel themselves perpetually on the brink of a volcano. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z "Then what does this mean?" he asked, with a little fretful frown of inquisitiveness. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z No; the real dread is that of not being foremost Alack! this fretful, nervous preoccupation concerning relative value is the very antithesis of real merit. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Of the two apprentices—one a sickly, fretful girl of sixteen, heard her not; she went on sewing, and the very way in which she drew her needle and thread was peevish. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z She saw all about her women with flushed faces and grimy hands, their hats awry and their brows wrinkled with trouble over fretful children. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z She was a little fretful, with a tendency to imply that the world was not very considerate. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z My hair would stand on end like the fretful porcupine. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z She will be down again by-and-by; and so bows herself out of the gentleman's presence, leaving him in a state of fretful disappointment. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Blinking Kerry stood apart, hushing the infant in her arms; it made a fretful whimper. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z He drew rein sharply, and the animal stood fidgeting and fretful. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z "Mother" was querulous and fretful, particularly when we rode on stormy days; otherwise she had practically ceased active opposition. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z Then she gets crow's feet round her eyes and becomes snappy and fretful, or a fierce creature struggling in an unequal combat with men. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z There is a big difference between hitting ninth and first, in terms of expectations, as a fretful father would know best. On Baseball: Leading Off: The Face of the New Yankees 2011-04-01T02:00:42Z I rede ye beware of the Carrasdoo men As ye come up the wold; I rede ye beware of the haunted glen— But a fretful whimper would interrupt the singer. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z I was not always so captious, but illness makes one very fretful. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z I have often been aware of the same perverse fretful kind of feeling at the baffling silence of infants. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z The phase of unlimited youthful expansiveness, of enthusiastic or fretful outcry, they have either escaped or left behind, and never give themselves away completely. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z On the lifeboat itself the gray, sun-shrouded morning showed a company of eight men, counting Newcomb, Grant, and the stoker; seven women; four children, fretful from chill and hunger; and a half-grown cabin-boy. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z "Your cousin is a very blunt woman," he said in rather a fretful tone to his wife, who was sitting beside him. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z He was sometimes commonplace, and sometimes carping and fretful. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The piano has gone, I know not where, but the memory of my fretful unreasonableness is still with me, and can still cause me moments of keen sorrow and chagrin. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z The evening before he went away he was so fretful about this and so outspoken about his dread, that I asked him, "Why don't you wait over a boat?" Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z Little Welsh was a weak, delicate, and fretful thing, and being generally despised and pushed aside by the vigorous young Bront�s, he grew up morose, envious, and cunning. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 2011-03-20T02:00:35.193Z "I don't know why you should say that," went on the colonel, still fretful. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z It was the sight of the bandaged eyes that kept his sympathy keen and made him gentle and patient even when Carl was fretful and hard to please. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z They were soon intimate, and he was very much delighted at playing with them, and was not made fretful by it. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z He turned toward the bed just in time to see the glad surprise upon Clarissa's face as she heard the fretful cry of the baby. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z So, in spite of his fretful irritation of mind he allowed the old man to have his own way. The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z Propitious dawn smiles on him wandering And fretful in the evil forest deeps; The heavy night's long, bitter rumour sleeps; The sun's clear song makes the horizon ring. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z In some families she may be called on at any hour of the night to carry the baby, if it is restless or fretful and needs to be "jiggled" to sleep! Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z Oil prices are surging, making the fretful about inflation. Banks should be the servants of industry 2011-03-07T07:00:03Z But July came and went, and the old Tory still lingered in prison, growing constantly more fretful in his active moments, more trance-like in his passive ones, more feeble and more attenuated. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z He went early to bed, discontented and fretful. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z But on I glide, I go, and, fretful, Pass under thee, gliding away my life forgetful. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z She was very thin, sallow, and sickly-looking, with a small round face, not wrinkled, but crumpled, as it were, into queer, fretful lines. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z "I don't know what to do!" exclaimed Castalia, with fretful helplessness. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z Besides, in truth, she had, as has been said, an undefined feeling of compassion for Castalia herself, which rendered her singularly forbearing towards the latter's manifestations of fretful jealousy or haughty dislike. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Standing alone in the middle of the deserted field, Mona pulls to pieces, in a jerky, fretful fashion, a blade of grass she has been idly holding during the late warm discussion. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Mrs. Marchant was a fretful woman; family cares had shattered her nerves; Bessie was all alive—"life in every limb" was intensely true about her three times over—and so they constantly irritated each other. The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z The Elder was evidently sick, fretful, and suffering. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z "It is when we are fretful or unkind, or when we are loving ourselves best," she said. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z But yet the fretful creases had not vanished from her face; and there was even a more suspicious watchfulness in her bright, deeply-set eyes than formerly. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z So he went away, and after a fretful interval set himself to revise his Latin irregular verbs. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z "I know, I know," and the voice was a little fretful, an unusual thing for Jack, "but you don't understand: it's because it would make mummy cry I don't want her to know." The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z She was more fretful and unreasonable than I ever before saw her. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z Then she was growing thin and low-spirited, nearly fretful, so he did not like to press her—what could it all mean? Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z His blue eyes glowed, his cheeks grew rosier, each particular hair of his perfectly charming little blond moustache—trimmed by Truefitt once a fortnight—stood up on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Imagine the position of a fretful, frivolous woman, strong neither in mind nor frame, abandoned to her own resources in the wilds of Upper Canada! Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z The big, bare rooms had made Esm� nervous and irritable; she had chafed during the dullness of waiting; had grown fretful and afraid. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z She talked of Maria, and of the studies she ought to continue, and of Madame's flowers and needlework, and a sweet feeling of rest from all the fretful life around was insensibly diffused. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z When I go to see Peggy it is a pure labour of love, but when I go to see fretful people who whine and don't wash I am very self-conscious about myself. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z In some cases the only difference was a puzzled, half-awakened, rather fretful look, where had been peace. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z She will be down again by and by; and so bows herself out of the gentleman’s presence, leaving him in a state of fretful disappointment. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Bertie had to listen to an outburst of grumbling, of fretful wrath, because their income was not double its size. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z I shall have to stop at home," she thought; "and grandmother is sick and grandfather fretful, and Neil's whole care is given to Agnes Bradley. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z With a fretful squeak of objection the elephant, curling his trunk between his tusks for its safety, forged ponderously ahead. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z With a tremulous hand, and a gesture of fretful impatience, she threw them from her one after the other. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z There, don't look fretful and impatient; I don't want to provoke you, nor is it worth your while to bring your siege artillery against my card-house. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z No one was looking at her; Esm�'s interest in the swimming died out suddenly; she grew bored again, fretful. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z And as a Coracle that braves On Vaga's breast the fretful waves, This shell upon the deep would swim. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z In many a park and gloomy square the watcher now would hear only a rustling of leaves or the fretful twitter of half-awakened birds. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Martin had grown much older during that same voyage; his temper, too, usually imbued with the easy indolence of his father's nature, had grown impatient and fretful. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Now that Helen did not have to ask Burke for money, there did not seem to be so many occasions when he was fretful and nervous; and they were much happier together. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z "Why, I thought you knew I had to go to the Borough!" began a fretful voice, forestalling reproach, and a buxom woman resplendent with black satin and much jewellery came up the tiny garden-path. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z "Why don't you come in and shut the door?" came in fretful tones from the bed. The Hazeley Family 2011-01-24T03:00:16.447Z Of course, Mrs. Tabor meant nothing; she was merely tired and fretful; but still, I did not like being made the confident of these family petulances. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z During the short interview that ensued, Webster was fretful and ill at ease. The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, 2011-01-17T03:00:42.913Z Helen's tone was a little fretful—there was a new, intangible something in her husband's voice that Helen did not understand, and that she did not think she liked. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z The fretful note in Brenda's voice warned her friends that she was taking things too deeply to heart. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z Lottie conscientiously did all she could for the fretful invalid upstairs. The Hazeley Family 2011-01-24T03:00:16.447Z A fretful invalid he seemed to be, hard to suit and much given to complaint. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z This was spoken so like a fretful child that actually Ruth was able to summon a smile. The Ranch Girls in Europe 2011-01-13T03:01:01.483Z Helen, worn and worried, and half sick from care and loss of sleep, grew day by day more fretful, more difficult to get along with. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z Vranic had always been cursed with a morbidly discontented disposition, as peevish and as fretful as a porcupine. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Mr Moynihan is working hard to win over fretful clients and investors. Bank of America: Moynihan's millstones 2011-01-06T10:47:49Z It was fretful and peevish and frightfully shrivelled. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Passengers were absorbed with newspapers, their fretful children, or the River Queen’s supply of ancient magazines. Guilt of the Brass Thieves 2011-01-04T03:01:18.213Z She was willful and fretful, and she certainly did not know how to give a fellow a decent meal or a comfortable place to stay. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z The earth was fretful; the sky as peevish as a human being crossed in his designs. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z No, let him go to nurse, Arthur," said a fretful voice; "he's too young to breakfast with us after such a fatiguing journey. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z The evidence was clear from the outset that Australia faced a struggle, and the opener Shane Watson's 12-ball stay was a fretful one. England in cruise control after skittling Australia at MCG 2010-12-26T08:08:38Z Though fretful, impatient, not suited at all, And you think it best not to mind every call, Remember past seasons, my kindness, and know I would have you as blest as one could be below. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z She had not been a good housekeeper; and maybe sometimes she had been fretful and fault-finding, and—and horrid. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z If this were the case, she would have a bad day of it; he was always so fretful and peevish on the day that followed a drinking bout. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The last comfort under the cross is, that thou canst not be hurt by it, unless it be by thine own fault, by being fretful and impatient under it. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Cool thou liest, leisured, slow, On the plains of long ago, All unvexed of fretful trades Through thy rich and dim arcades, Overlooking lands below Terraced to thy green plateau. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z But there was within him an undercurrent of irritability, and at times he was moody and fretful. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z Before three days had passed, nine-tenths of the besieging army had become fretful with impatience. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z Indeed, for all the fretful talk about deflation, it is unfortunately the fear of inflation that still haunts political and economic decision-makers. Are Americans' worries over the direction of prices inflated? 2010-08-08T04:00:00Z Rory McIlroy, the overnight leader, was among the late starters, one of those who endured a fitful, fretful day – a victim of the links lottery. The Open 2010: Louis Oosthuizen tames the wild wind to sail away 2010-07-16T18:54:00Z Yes, there's to be a levy on banks – allowing otherwise fretful Lib Dems a rare smile – but in the world of the City £2bn is little more than a rounding error. Rooted in deficit-slashing superstition, this budget will hit the poor hardest 2010-06-22T19:26:00Z I was a fretful blow-in, by their mark, and simply not cut out for tough, gnarly, West of Ireland living. 2010-01-25T05:00:00Z Others are restive and fretful, and ever anxious to be on the move. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. Such a time as I do have with her, she so fretful,” said Mary. Zula There was a fretful tone in her voice. Capricious Caroline |
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