She bore his nervous petulance with patience, for she felt that she knew the cause of his agitation.
Amy's mind had been overstrained in an effort to follow even the small part of Mrs. MacGregor's words that was at all intelligible to her; there was a suggestion of petulance in her reply.
I remember that in a fit of petulance at some childish misdemeanour, my mother once told me that I came into the world on the unlucky day of the fool's month.
He turned to me with an odd mixture of petulance and humour and asked me: "Why the devil didn't you tell me all this when I could paint?
Thady had too many causes of real suffering to grumble much at trifles, and usually passed over his sister's petulance in silence: but the truth was, her lover was sometimes cross to her.
It was only quite lately, however, that Feemy had begun to show signs of petulance and ill temper.
Pride and petulance must go down by degrees, sister.
However, neither petulance nor presumption shall make her declare as her sentiments what really are not so, in her unprejudiced hours; and she hopes to have her heart always open to conviction.
It was not merely the irrational petulance of a childish mind resenting disapproval.
It was a tone utterly unlike the petulance of his own, that of a man baulked in his dearest desire who foresees nothing but pangs in a proximity where hope had long hovered, but whence it had for ever taken flight.
Front-de-Boeuf would have replied, but Prince John's petulance and levity got the start.
Eric forgave the petulance because he could see that she was tired.
These trunk lines are very bewildering to a stranger,” he remarked, with a little petulance in his tone.
You know I can't come," she said with that petulancewhich had grown upon her recently.
The propeller cleft the surface regularly; there was no longer any sound of petulance in its revolutions, rather there was a throb of joy as it did its work unhindered.
The screw thrashed the water, ceased, and struck again with a suggestion of petulance at the obstacles which barred the boat's way.
Len," she said with a touch of petulance in her voice, "you get into grouches and spur your imagination to all sorts of absurdities.
Under the whip his speed died and his petulance cropped out.
Maxima debetur falconi reverentia"; and if you exhibit petulance and ill-temper yourself, how can you expect that she will be amiable in return?
Henry, having had his way, was now face to face with the threatening consequences, and could ill brook snappish petulance from the woman for whom he had brought himself to brave the world.
It is mere childish petulance for the Indeterminist to say that unless certain words are used with his meaning they shall not be used at all, but shall be expelled from our vocabulary.
She let petulance have sway, and informed herself that she should not go a step, when the voice in the hall pleaded insidiously that Her Mercy make haste.
The foremost jerked his horse's bit with a cruel petulance and drew up before the hacienda house.
He would have brushed past with his almost feminine petulance had not Mr. Spokesly once again seized his shoulder.
A flash of petulance is well enough and may become beauty as summer lightning decks the sky, but fury is for termagants, and nought but fury could fling my last guinea to the waves.
But she did not weep, unless in a passing petulance because I asked what she could not give; and the clouds swept dark over my love's bright face.
That he did not do so at the start is positive, else Abbott would never have sent such word by his wife," Nathan replied, heeding not the petulance of his comrade.
Evan was rapidly recovering from the fit of petulance which had seized upon when it appeared most likely they would be shut out from riding into battle with the American force.
She had had enough of that sort, she said, with the only petulance she ever showed to Harold when he pressed it.
In this design there was petulance and malignity enough; but I cannot think it very criminal.
Perhaps he imagined that, in ridiculing the Laureate, he satirised those by whom the laurel had been given, and gratified that ambitious petulance with which he affected to insult the great.
He was, besides, getting fast on in years; and age, which brings wisdom to some, to men like Nash is apt to bring nothing butpetulance and imbecility.
Warburton had the most cutting way of designating his adversaries, either by the most vehement abuse or the light petulance that expressed his ineffable contempt.
Pope's literary quarrels were the wars of his poetical ambition, more perhaps than of the petulance and strong irritability of his character.
She felt the goading of that furiouspetulance which torments a woman often into sacrificing herself out of very anger.
The girl had flushed crimson to the rim of her white collar; but there was not a trace of petulance in her air; and, all at once looking at him, her eyes filled with tears.
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