1 So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.
2 Mary sat in her corner of the railway carriage and looked plain and fretful.
3 It was another cry, but not quite like the one she had heard last night; it was only a short one, a fretful childish whine muffled by passing through walls.
4 The door of her room was ajar and the sound came down the corridor, a far-off faint sound of fretful crying.
5 Colin looked fretful and kept his strange black-lashed eyes fixed on Dr. Craven's face.
6 Mary became quite still and Colin looked fretful.
7 She laughed as if she could not help it when they told her of the increasing difficulty there was in pretending that Colin was still a fretful invalid.
8 She continued to stare at him, the flame of the unshaded lamp bringing out with microscopic cruelty the fretful lines of her face.
9 "Pork and Mammy did something with the silver--put it in the well-- but I'm not remembering now," Gerald's voice was fretful.
10 "I don't know what you DO mean," said Mrs. Peniston, with a frightened quiver in her small fretful voice.
11 A month went by, and old Mrs. Shimerda began to get fretful.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 12 I doubt not that our conduct had much to do with making him appear awkward, and of consequence fretful.
13 She had never spoken a word to her sister-in-law for three days; but she had likewise dropped her fretful complaining, and we found it a great comfort.
14 He had been greatly tried, during the journey, I felt convinced, by his fretful ailing charge.
15 Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, "I have looked over it."