Rain still fell fretfully in scuds and fleeces; but where for hours there had been nothing but a monotone of greyness, suddenly fire broke and radiance and storm-clouds in commotion.
He stepped back against the railings, freeing himself fretfully from the hand that clutched his arm.
He felt Cosgrave plucking at his sleeve, fretfully like a sick child, raised to a sudden interest.
Nan turned her head fretfullyfrom one side to the other.
Physically she felt a different being from the girl who had lain on a couch in London and grumbled fretfully at the houses opposite.
She stood and for a long moment looked down at him while Ellis moaned fretfully and moved.
Underneath the wagon, Mike moaned fretfully in his sleep as he dreamed of some happy hunt in which he and Tad had participated.
Miss Clairville, fretfully pacing up and down the common room.
Fretfully aware of a serious bent in herself, of a temper perilously near to a dull literalness, she always tried to answer in kind when he, or indeed anybody else, offered to engage in the game with her.
The tired child wasfretfully drowsy, but with the innate perversity of toddling babyhood, resented and resisted every effort to soothe her to sleep.
He fretfullyforbade the extinguishing of the light.
Judas was silent for a while, and then fretfully and everything about him, his eyes, hands and feet, seemed to start in different directions, as those of an animal which suddenly perceives the eye of man upon him.
Judas was silent for a while, and then fretfully there fell from his lips distressful words, fraught with grief and anger-- "Why does not He love me?
But Sophia Jane took no notice of the caressing tone: she waved her hand fretfully as Aunt Hannah bent over her, and the gesture said more plainly than words, "Go away, and let me speak to her.
When, however, she found that Susan had only brought a book of fairy tales, she was much displeased, and declared fretfully that fairy tales were nonsense.
A lamp with a tin reflector jarred fretfully upon a shelf, and the floor creaked.
Feeling a little irritated by the summary manner in which her husband had been taken away from her, Rosamond fretfully rejected the offers of assistance which were made to her by Mrs. Jazeph as soon as the doctor had left the room.
Mr. Munder, fretfully tapping his hand on the table.
Mariana declared, remorsefully, that she had selfishly dragged him away from Shadrach; and proposed countless trivial amends, which he fretfully blocked.
He expressed regret once more for any disturbance he might have caused; and, after hesitating awkwardly, left with Eunice hanging fretfully at his hand.
Both asked fretfully whether the post had come, and then each sank into an arm-chair and fumed.
With that prophecy, Mr. Dark fretfully treated himself to a last pinch of snuff, and departed in dudgeon on his journey back to his master in London.
It was really because I loved Jack--too much," the veiled woman still fretfully excused herself.
I had no recollection of anything during the night, save that it seemed to me once that some one touched me, and that I fretfully begged to be left alone.
There was no answer, and he stood for a moment fretfully muttering to himself.
The student, spurred by questions, some-what fretfully responded, "He never did anything to me!
Yet when the young grow restless andfretfully "wish something would happen!
Crammed in the vestibule in front of us were fifty people fretfully marshalling in line their strings of porters lest any later comer get by ahead of them; foremost, with his breast against the ticket window, was Georges Coutlass.
But he fretfullypersisted in his determination to be uncomfortable.
How fretfully erratic were the men who dotted its green sward with gray and solemn black!
He fretfully put away the blotting-book and the sketch of the advertisement on the chair which Mrs. Lecount had just left.
He spokefretfully and unwillingly, as if the merest allusion to Mrs. Lecount was distasteful to him.
He took up the letter again, and became fretfully perplexed over a second reading of it.
Fretfully she tore at the billowing filmy sleeve of her summer blouse.
Tropile touched his templesfretfully and his fingers rested on gauze bandages.
He turned fretfully and cuffed the clamorous sheepherder, who seemed to lack the heart for actual hostilities but indulged in much recrimination and was almost in tears.
A shack with one window is sure unpleasant when the sun is shining outside," he said fretfully to himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fretfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anxiously; impatiently; plaintively
