He looked at him with a certain petulant envy; the envy of every young fellow for a man of the world.
Cigarette gave a little petulant twist to the tap of her wine-barrel.
With the reveille and the break of morning Cigarette woke, herself again; she gave a little petulant shake to her fairy form when she thought of what folly she had been guilty.
Oh, I am not angry with you," she cried, with a petulant ring in her voice as she raised herself hastily, and looked him full in the face.
He could not see her face, nor she his, and once more her voice was petulant in complaint.
That horrid fellow Petulant has provoked me into a flame--I have broke my fan--Mincing, lend me yours.
Mr. Witwoud and Mr. Petulant are come to dine with your ladyship.
I don't find that Petulant confesses the superiority of wit to be your talent, Witwoud.
Ay, I do, my hand I remember--Petulant set his mark.
If you would but appear barefaced now, and own Mirabell, you might as easily put off Petulant and Witwoud as your hood and scarf.
You and I are excluded, and it was once proposed that all the male sex should be excepted; but somebody moved that to avoid scandal there might be one man of the community, upon which motion Witwoud and Petulant were enrolled members.
What they may have done by this time I know not, but Petulantand he were upon quarrelling as I came by.
Pshaw, pshaw, that she laughs at Petulantis plain.
Petulant and you both will find Mirabell as warm a rival as a lover.
Now for the first time, there broke upon him the stunning fact of inevitable decay and, being a self-indulgent man, he had for the moment nothing more dignified than petulant despair with which to meet this sudden apprehension of mortality.
But he'd have thought that even Violet might be expected to see that a mere petulant restlessness wouldn't have carried her through; might have admitted, if only in parenthesis, the gameness the girl had shown.
They drove him, sometimes, into outbursts of petulant rage.
This alternation of feeling bred in her, in the course of a few days, a sort of fever, which lent a singular beauty to her face, and a petulant tang to her speech.
Go home yourself, if you want to," was the petulant reply.
It was only a bow at a venture, the ill-tempered fling of a petulant boy, but the shaft struck home.
No longer petulant and impatient, he appeared sunk in the deepest despondency; and this turn in the disease alarmed Philip more than his most extravagant fits of raving.
I think you would not be so petulant and imperious, if every wish of that wayward heart were not gratified by his fond affection.
Something in his manner restrained the petulant rejoinder that rose to her lips, and she allowed him to kiss her hand in silence.
Prue turned from her mirror with a petulant gesture.
But let us deal with the speaker, as we would ourselves be dealt by--mercifully, and regard these petulant utterances as a mere expression of bitterness or perversity in one much tried and sorely disappointed.
The position of the hour hand brought a petulant frown to his white forehead.
He took the cigarette from his lips, eyed it regretfully, and flung it away with a petulant fillip.
As this interference with his happiness was due to Blake, he showed a petulant resentment towards the engineer that won him the girl's sympathetic concern.
Therefore, in spite of some petulantremonstrances on the part of Mr. Enderton, we made several trips to points of interest.
The lower house answered this declaration in very petulant terms; and the dispute subsisted when the parliament was prorogued.
The lower house penned petulant representations, and the archbishop answered them by verbal reprehension and admonition.
Life and youth displayed their treasures in the petulant face and in the gracious outlines of the bust unspoiled even by the fashion of the day, which brought the girdle under the breast.
Her eyes were fixed in a sort of anxiety on the Palace of the Tuileries, the goal, doubtless, of her petulant promenade.
Tell me, all the same," said Julie, with an involuntary petulant gesture.
Thus, then, passed a week longer; the petulant constable on the watch, and the steady malignity of Davenport gradually becoming impatient for gratification.
Nor did he heed the blue-bird singing in the noonday sun to the arbutus blossoms crushed by his unwitting feet, or notice the petulant squirrel flinging down the shells of his nuts, as if in mockery at the passing stranger.
It was out of gear with the smooth, madonna-like appearance of her features, that she should be petulant at all.
The dark girl seemed in a petulant mood, as though the atmosphere of the carriage stifled her in more ways than by its being uncontrollably hot.
The tiredpetulant look of the invalid only showed at the droop to the corners of her mouth.
The petulant and vindictive little Countess Ursine, the bitterest of all the twelve enraged beauties, can not keep in one place for a single instant.
Saying this Marphise exchanges looks with Countess Ursine, whosepetulant impatience has been steadily on the increase.
And if I seemed petulant to you before you went away, you must forgive your own Amelia.
The squire was aware that he had been unreasonably petulant before dinner, and having taken himself to task in his own way, now entered the dining-room with the courteous greeting of a host.
The petulant voice had now developed into one of indignation.
The voice had now grown stronger, with a petulant tone through it.
This petulant outburst was of no avail to stave off the minions of the law.
Arlington observed the fine-looking young officer with the petulant dislike of foiled envy.
He showed none of the petulant rage of those clamorous politicians whose flight, as he said, is winged in a lower region of the air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petulant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
