Now, since this work was done not in an office but at home, the burden of that fretfulness fell altogether upon Clarice.
The shafts of reproach, which come from the graves of those who have been wounded by our fretfulness and irritability, are often hard to bear.
The fretfulness of human life, it seems not hard to believe, is a greater evil, and destroys more happiness, than all the bloody scenes of the battle-field.
Scolding and fretfulness will not bring him round, if other methods have failed.
The slight touch of joy and animation that had come into her face fled, leaving only a dispirited fretfulness that was plainly very much at home there.
Certainly there was no abatement in her fretfulness and discontent.
I was dreading it, for I knew from past experience with other children what to expect: fretfulness and tears, if nothing worse.
Mrs. Bennet, through the assistance of servants, contrived to have the earliest tidings of it, that the period of anxiety and fretfulness on her side might be as long as it could.
At night, young men and maidens, old men and children, go their several ways homeward, just as happy as if they had left behind them a dozen family-mothers wearied into fretfulness and illness by much serving.
All their weariness and fretfulness and tumbles and aches are poured into her lap.
He spoke with an almost feverish impatience, the fretfulness of a sick man who cannot bear the slightest opposition to his will.
He bore his calamity with an almost awful calmness, which at times was more painful to the tender, sympathetic wife than fretfulnessand complaining would have been.
The receipt of that letter banished all anxiety and fretfulness from my mind.
Incidents of this character occurred every few minutes in every barrack, which was not surprising seeing that we were all keyed to a high pitch of fretfulness while tempers were hasty.
But he had misread the symptoms, and had misread also the fretfulness of her impatience.
He almost cursed the fidgety fretfulness of women as he slipped the manuscript into his letter-case, and followed the girl along the passages.
Poor souls, who labor daily under a burden too heavy for them, and whosefretfulness and impatience are looked upon with sorrow, not anger, by pitying angels.
This is the great, the only safeguard against fretfulnessand complaint.
He thinks he has caught a cold, and cannot stifle his fretfulness about it.
Tempers grow wild and unruly, sleep disappears, fretfulness and irritability take its place.
When good temper and interest take the place of fretfulness and restlessness, we may confidently expect that the symptom of sleeplessness will begin to abate.
Fretfulness and negativism with all children whose management is at fault come in waves and cycles.
Sleeplessness by night andfretfulness by day form a vicious circle, and attempts must be made to break it at all points.
But often, more often indeed than not even from the first, they show him a prey, despite his best efforts to master himself and be reasonable, to an uncontrollable intensity and fretfulness of passion.
Those three months in Kentish Town were to Keats a time of distressing weakness and for the most part of terrible inward fretfulness and despondency.
Sometimes it is important to ascertain whether a tooth which was near coming through has actually pierced the gum, and yet the child's fretfulness renders it almost impossible to induce it to open its mouth.
Its stomach then becomes perfectly tense, and you cannot tell whether pressure on it causes pain or whether the cries are not altogether the consequence of fretfulness and fear.
Never had he understood before what was meant by the sickening weariness of routine; his fretfulness as a youth in the West Indies seemed to him now inconceivable.
They see the smile, the fretfulness--and yet they think the smile means happiness and the fretfulness an ugly, tiresome thing.
They do not perceive that often the smile is as a cry to Heaven, and that fretfulness is but the sign of a soul breaking itself against the jagged rocks of hopelessness and doubt.
Sometimes, owing to the discomfort experienced, there is likely to be a change of disposition, irritability of temper, fretfulness and peevishness; a tendency to an irascibility all out of proportion to the real provocation.
Fretfulness is almost certain to take the sweetness out of our hearts and out of our communion with God.
Fretfulness has a tendency to make us doubt God and his wisdom: how natural for us to think that if we had the power that he has we would put a stop to such things.
This reflection cannot escape a thinking mind, looking back on those ebullitions of fretfulness and impatience to which it has yielded in a season of great affliction.
It is better in sickness to have our heart's fever depart, even though we must longer keep our pain, than to recover our physical health, meanwhile keeping our fretfulness and impatience uncured.
