While a person is on the electrical stool, if he be charged with much electricity, "Each hair will stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
But more than anything else she rejoiced in the absence of the old fretful lines of gloom and bitterness.
Mrs. Chilton's eyes were lusterless, her cheeks pallid and shrunken, and her forehead crossed and recrossed by fretful lines.
So was it in "the House that Jack built," where the fretful creature that tossed the dog had but one horn, and this grew crumpled.
He passed fights, bestial grimaces, heard thefretful crack of revolvers.
And as Sir Fretful remarked a moment since, "What pleasure can there be in reading criticisms of people's plays if they aren't favourable?
I neither love nor entirely hate you, ugly and lame and lean and fretful Niafer, but assuredly I do not envy you.
VIII The Halo of Holiness Now Manuel takes ship across the fretful Bay of Biscay, traveling always toward Provence and Alianora, whom people called the Unattainable Princess.
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.
The door of her room was ajar and the sound came down the corridor, a far-off faint sound of fretful crying.
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.
I know I am selfish and fretful and wilful," she said, with a sigh.
She had been wilful and fretful and had not kept in touch and sympathy with his work.
He had died the glorious death, and no future, tangled, perplexed, fretful with its foolish burden, lay before him.
She said she was generally ill and fretful because she was writing, but more ill and more fretful if she was not.
Bless papa, dear Jesus, and cause him to see That Santa Claus loves us as much as does he; Don't let him getfretful and angry again At dear brother Willie and Annie.
So he plodded along in his honest style, And he bettered himself each day, And he only said to his fretful wife, "We'll stick to the good old way.
She had been so often reproved as fretful and ill-tempered, whenever in tears, that she always checked and concealed them.
But there was a fretful desperation in the tone, as of one long accustomed to protest in vain.
Some had their long hair greased and stiffened into separate locks, standing erect like quills upon the fretful porcupine; while others wore it cultivated into one huge bush, stiffened with coral line, diversified with turmeric.
There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, wrapt in universal law.
Have we got to give her back this fretful silver bracelet, Tessie?
What Dot had begun to call the "fretful silver bracelet" was a very live topic.
It--it's fretful silver," replied the littlest Corner House girl.
Papa," said Bessie at dessert that day, "will you please take the fretful off my peach.
Riding, dancing, and playing tennis in the daytime, and then sitting up half the night, with a restless and fretful patient.
Those who saw Miss Leigh dancing and playing tennis at the Gymkhana, little guessed how she spent the remainder of the day, soothing and interesting a fretful invalid, or sitting up half the night on duty--and on guard.
Thus progress in righteousness, in the love of God, and in the practical application of the Gospel, has gone forward, while these profound problems have remained, and hover like clouds above the fretful world.
And she wondered why it was that Claire's patient sweetness was so much more trying than Amy's fretful complaint.
And then above the tumult, a shrill fretful pipe that to the strained ears of the listeners was the sweetest of all sweet music.
Now, after a long period of fretful wedlock, she is shaking herself free from the Turk.
