Startled by the loud slamming of the door, the senator peevishly turned his eyes in that direction;--near it he saw a little billet lying upon the floor, which he took up and brought to his writing table.
He was annoyed at my going, and questioned me peevishly about the business that occasioned my journey.
A pitiful scene had occurred in which the king peevishly upbraided her in regard to some trivial matter--the occasion escapes my memory--speaking to her before others words that even alone she could not have listened to with dignity.
Twice when she spoke to her mother of late, being very desperate, Laurella had said peevishly that if she were able she'd get up and leave the house.
At first Pap merely grunted over these homesick repinings; but after a time he began to hang about her and offer counsel which was often enoughpeevishly received.
Hereupon the true character of the soi-disant model son is revealed; he peevishly casts it in his father's face, as a reproach, that he had never provided such a feast for his immaculate and superlatively dutiful child.
I tell you that I am ill and thirsty, and that's enough," peevishly answered Sarah Anne.
He will catch that speedily enough if he is to wander out of the house at midnight in this mad manner," peevishly rejoined my lady.
I turned my head peevishly away, and closed my eyes again.
He wriggled peevishly in her embrace, disengaged her arms, and put her from him almost roughly.
ON a very wet day in the west of Scotland, a traveler, who had been detained a week by bad weather, peevishly asked a native, if it always rained in that country?
Adam turned, and after peevishlygazing at the intruder a few moments, his face brightened up into recognition.
He wrote peevishly to the best of them; probably he talked more peevishly still.
Italian, andpeevishly magnified by the Dutch minister.
Colonel Sheldon's weak features turned red and he said almost peevishly that no recruits could be picked up in Westchester, and that we had had our journey for our pains.
Rosey went off in quite a series of screams, peevishly repressed by her husband, and always encouraged by mamma, who called her son-in-law an unfeeling wretch.
Pickle peevishly replied, that his torments had been occasioned by his own foolish imagination; and asked how he came to howl in that corner.
Then why did she lag behind, unseeing, unheeding of all, but peevishly pushing off John and Anne, thinking that they always teased her worst on Sundays, and very much discomfited that Miss Fosbrook was not attending to her?
Fifty times a day did she peevishly lament the delay; but not, alas!
Selina frowned--perhaps in order to hide the blush that she could not repress--and then peevishly shook off her sister's gentle touch.
But the lad still following him, he peevishly cried out, Get about your business: God mend me!
Sube mechanically pulled his cap far on his head, and sank limply down on the bed as Cathead came into the room peevishly charging him with being the biggest fibber out of captivity.
He continued to growl peevishly and lashed the floor with the loose end of his tail.
She half tried to make Adeline say a word or two in support of the invitation; but no, she would not even hear it; and when I accepted, she half peevishly declared she had got a bad headache, and would go to bed after the play.
The world had gone too well with me of late to make me thin-skinned or peevishly disposed.
Presently, after exchanging reciprocal greetings, the druggist Open'd his mouth, and almost peevishly vented his feelings "What strange creatures men are!
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