And with a satisfied little nod and smile, madam left her and went downstairs to tell her brother that his munificence had won the day, and he would have no further trouble with a fractious bride.
Surely, you will forgive him for the deception which his great affection led him to practice upon you," she concluded, with a coaxing smile, such as she would have assumed in dealing with a fractious child.
She went north with a gang of half-breeds and hunters last month; and he's been fractious crazy ever since.
Well, that there laudanum soothes the fractious infant, and causes a whole lot of repose.
No longer should Nurse Panton and I be afraid when our patient was good, or rejoice when fractious whims and difficult absurdities marked those rallies in which he fought off death.
Mrs. Jernyngham had, he gathered, been unusually fractious for the last week or two, and Cyril was invariably forbearing.
Ellice has been fractious lately; I seem to have been getting on her nerves, which perhaps is not surprising.
If ever a captured and fractious bird of passage was beating wings against his cage's bars in fury and despair, Mr. Burkett was doing it with vigor.
But the most uncomfortable feature of his predicament was a marlinespike which was stuck into his mouth like a bit provided for a fractious horse, and was secured by lashings behind his head.
Jerry, referring to the countryman's fractious steed that ran away.
Then, mounting their motor-cycles, the three boys made good speed home, meeting with no more fractious horses and puncturing no more tires.
It was from such sources that a certain idea was derived which, as we remember, was in great vogue among the more fractious of the lads at the school at York.
But we are fortunately spared this task, and may refer to Tiraboschi, Roscoe, and Shepherd for illustrations of his restless existence and fractious temper.
To the exclusion of all else, this one centered in a team of fractious mules, a fly that must bite soon and a strong sense of restlessness.
Laramie had a complete blacksmith shop as well as a full complement of men who knew all about handling fractious mules, horses and oxen.
But I forgot my disappointment a moment afterward, when I went into the schoolroom and found Dot fractious and weary, and Jack vainly trying to amuse him.
One mobber was killed by lightning and another had his hand torn off by a fractious horse, and in fear they dispersed, saying, if that was the way God fought for the "Mormons" they would go about their business.
They are odd, fractious people at first, curiously concerned about health and occupation and one can often do nothing but listen to their complaints.
The children were all fractious and their mother scolded.
Rabda looked round till her eye fell upon Mrs. Hunter, who was occupied in trying to hush a fractious child.
Oliver stated that Mose Purnell had owned him, and that he was a tolerably moderate kind of a slave-holder, although he was occasionally subject to fractious turns.
One day, while hauling dirt with a fractious horse, the animal manifested an unwillingness to perform his duty satisfactorily.
His master he regarded as a "very fractious man, hard to please.
