Every day Clive and Hastings lean on the battlements of heaven and look down and wonder which of the two the monument is for; and they fret and worry because they cannot find out, and so the peace of heaven is spoiled for them and lost.
The hardness of stubbed vulgar constitutions renders them insensible of a thousand things that fret and gall those delicate people, who, as if their skin was peeled off, feel to the quick everything that touches them.
Before they find their way to the main again, these harridans of nature bring forth a brood of currents which ceaselessly fret the boundaries of the isles.
I'se goin' tek keer ob hit; yo' needn't fur to fret about dat.
Doan you chillenfret about nothin'," he continued earnestly.
Problems, on which persons of keener intelligence and more aspiring soul fret and foam their lives away as rushing water round a rock, do not even break the placid surface of their days.
Trouble, and nothing but trouble, more especially to Beatrice, who would fret her days away to no end.
It is as senseless to fret about an illness, no matter how much just cause we may feel we have, as it would be to walk west when our destination was directly east.
We fret and worry so that it takes her ten or twenty days to do the good work that she might have done in three.
It was not in Isabel's nature to fret much over any thing; but Richard was a gentle, playful, affectionate child, to whom the absence of all familiar faces would be a serious trouble.
And I'd be glad not to have to fret about your safety in my absence.
Lanyard gave it up, admitting his inability to trump up any sane excuse for such conduct; but the riddle continued to fret his mind without respite.
Nor did he fret with consciousness that, when the bill had been paid and the essential tips bestowed, there would remain in his pocket hardly more than cab fare.
Never fret about a taxi's number until it has run over me.
Like gunpowder he's been, and Master Scott has had a difficult enough time with him; and Miss Isabel has kept it from him so that he thinks it was just your going again that made herfret so.
It was true that she possessed nothing suitable for ballroom wear; but then the dance was to be quite informal, and she was too happy to fret herself over that fact.
Fret not thyself because of the ungodly 2 neither be thou envious against the evil-doers, 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass: and be withered even as the green herb.
Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil.
I have been absorbed in my own pursuits, and not paid attention enough to details of management, and so I have helped to fret and vex my husband.
Soon it shall work, the strange mysterious fret That mars both toil and play.
The dust-storms follow and wrap me round; The hot winds ride as a guard; Before me the fret of the swamps is bound And the way of the wild-fowl barred.
For us at least the artists show Apart from fret of work-day jars: We know them but as friends may know, Or they are known beyond the stars.
Mark out and drill the tube holes in the bottom, and then the flue hole, for which a series of small holes must be made close together inside the circumference and united with a fret saw.
But while Pierre rode hard, it was at first without the fret of battle in him, and he smiled strangely, for he knew that the Indian had disappeared as they rode down the slope, though how and why he could not tell.
I might forget the words he said When all the children fret and cry, But when I get them off to bed, His gentle tone comes stealing by-- And years of matrimony flee, And leave me sitting on his knee.
The English are abstinent: they rein in their horses where the French make them fret and curvett.
But don't youfret about that till you have to," advised Mrs. Belloc.
Inaction began to fret her nerves, and she wished to be doing something to show her appreciation of Stanley Baird's generosity.
