Bonne was almost content; if she fretted it was for others, and if she dreamed of the ancient glories of the house, it was not for the stiff brocades and jewelled stomacher of her grandame that she pined.
When William was gone to sea the dame upbraided her with want of proper pride and self-respect till she had fretted her almost to death's door.
In a little while, however, she fretted herself to death, and the breath no sooner left her body than she returned to haunt the rooms formerly occupied by her in the castle.
Having made him promise, before marriage, that she and her children should inherit his lands and all he could keep from his eldest son, it fretted her to find that, as yet, she was not likely to become a mother.
Besides it fretted her to find that old sour Prudence was brought back to be mistress of Robin's garden-dwelling.
Stone seems, by the cunning labour of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density; suspended aloft as if by magic; and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.
Of course he was right, but everyone fretted over the delay, especially our friends, who wanted to start their rescue work.
Mr. Ringold fretted and fumed at the delay, but there was no help for it.
Through the ample and fretted arch of the portal I behold the Court of Lions, with brilliant sunshine gleaming along its colonnades and sparkling in its fountains.
There was a small Moorish hall with fretted walls, light marble columns, and an alabaster fountain surrounded with flowers.
On the other, the fretted pinnacles of the firs cut sharp against the sky, and between stretched long swathes of fallen timothy and fern already turning yellow.
They lifted their fretted spires high against the sky, as they had done for centuries, and they would remain the same until the white man's ax should sweep the wilderness away.
Presently the forest, no longer fretted by the suburbs, came close up on both sides of the rail.
The General fumed and frettedover it, the more because it fell in with a certain secret thought he had had once or twice.
We walk through the fretted cloisters that once echoed with the tread of sandalled monks and saw them illuminating and copying wonderful missals, antiphonaries, and other manuscripts which we prize so highly now.
He neither fretted nor fumed at the time this travel was taking.
I do not think that any words could describe my misery at this time--"battered and frettedinto great sorrow of heart," as Carlyle would say.
Their façades are fretted with arabesque devices borrowed from the East, while the armorial bearings of their once knightly or merchant possessors still indicate by whom they were occupied.
In the middle of the gloom loomed masses of fretted white stalactite, rising upward in spiral forms, while some tall, slender objects appeared like the graceful stems of palm-trees capped with feathery plumage.
One may pass under some beautifully fretted arch, and find oneself within a ruined court of the most graceful Saracenic device.
Fretted are her hips by the rough stone of the quay, Her breast is a thicket of rugged hair And black with the coal, which mingled with sweat, Has turned the nymph to a stevedore wet.
In the distance flowed the river, swollen with spring rains, a line of bare, white water, that fretted with its rounded curves the rows of slender poplars which outlined its course.
The sick woman moaned, and the child fretted for food.
Her eyes fretted round her, as if she had lost her sense of direction.
It dismayed and fretted me to find him so sombre and dour.
None the less, a wretched heartless impatience fretted me at being thus helplessly hemmed in by my fellow creatures.
We climbed the green-stained scaling steps from terrace to terrace, tufted with wallflower and snapdragon amongst the weeds, cushioned with bright moss, fretted with lichen.
Chapter Fifteen I grew a little weary of the beautiful snow in the days that followed my first talk with Mr Crimble, and fretted at the close air of the house.
In the course of a month, however, the cable broke, owing to its havingfretted upon a sharp ridge of rocks about a mile from Cape Gris-nez.
With the former he is not so easily caught, and will never enter a trap or touch a gin in which any of his kind have fretted and rubbed.
Deeper were the shadows that now fell upon his heart--more fretted the state of mind that supervened.
For five years, therefore, he fretted and chafed in the narrow prison whose gilded bars his own hands had forged.
I had no great difficulty in doing this, although the shoemaker seemed at first a little fretted at my having taken up the lad's cause again.
I fancy he fretted a great deal, and moaned hisseln night and day; and she had precious little rest: one could guess by her white face and heavy eyes.
We had all remarked, during some time, that Miss Linton fretted and pined over something.
These high-flown notions about right and wrong upset your living, they fretted your luckless associates.
That sunny and vivid glade had become, to him, an island about which past happenings lapped like a fretted sea.
From that point our interest leads us back to camp along the trail through the warm June woods with the late sunlight hanging like golden gauze behind the fretted screens of green.
What she saw there stung her already fretted soul to unreasoning anger, and for once the circumspect Miss Davis acted upon impulse undeterred by thought.
And Desire, who was not lazy, might have fretted at the inaction had she believed him.
