Perhaps it IS real,' said Anthea, 'only it was covered up with crossness and tiredness and things, and the carpet took them away.
It is some rebellion orcrossness of our wills to the will of God, which causeth our inordinate griefs and trouble.
The crossness of thy will to the will of God, is the sum of all the impiety and evil of the soul; and the subjection and conformity of thy will to his, is the heart of the new creature, and of thy rectitude and sanctification.
No shortness in knowledge, no crossness of disposition, no workings of lusts, or corruptions will be there; no, not throughout the whole heavens.
So I resolved to choke down, or at least to hide, my sadness--and still more the sort of crossness I had been feeling.
Her laughing always seems to drive awaycrossness and gloominess; it is so pretty and bright, and so real.
SIR DENIS Let there be nocrossness on my account, Donal.
With all her crossness and tiresome ways, Biddy is always good to mamma; she was talking to her almost as though she were a baby, for I stood and listened a minute before I closed the door.
The former manifests incrossness and irritability.
Most of this rose out of my own crossnessand horridness.
I shall do no such thing,' said Wilmet, with absolute crossness in her tone.
They had neither the principle nor the consideration of their two seniors; to them every one seemed simply 'cross,' and against this crossness there was a constant struggle, either of disobedience or of grumble.
And when Diamond saw her coming he was not frightened either, though Mrs. Crump was a little cross sometimes; for there is a good kind of crossness that is only disagreeable, and there is a bad kind of crossness that is very nasty indeed.
I'm not used to be cross, and my own crossness is much harder to bear than theirs.
As Amy lovingly combed and brushed the long, wavy overflow of Hester's beauty, Hester tried to make her understand that she must not think of good-temper and crossness merely as things that could be put into her and taken out of her.
The demon of crossness seems to have haunted you this morning," said Margery.
Why, put all the crossness out of your personality into the picture, and then you'll never be cross any more.
A crossness of dispositions will be a continual vexation; and you will have a domestic war instead of love.
There was crossness in her voice, and her face was aflush with anger, or perhaps with lingering sleep.
Ethelwyn and Beth did not fall out very often, but then they didn't have a birthday very often, nor Christmas, nor any other of the days when the land flows with ice cream and candy, and is bounded on the next day by crossness and pitfalls.
Yes, for crossness and unpolite words and messing at table and--lots of things.
There's been no nerve frettin' nor crossnesssince the mistress was called--not once.
The Princess was far too cross to be reasonable, though she managed to remember that it was no use letting her crossness appear in her voice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crossness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cussedness; irascibility; meanness; perversity; testiness; ugliness
