I do not recall a single querulous or ill-natured complaint.
It scarcely needed his mother's look of reproach andquerulous question as to "why he had forgotten the dinner hour," to make him speak the truth, with almost brutal frankness.
He made no reply to her querulous accusations and regretful wishes until she said: "I trust that when we act foolishly and turn our backs on happiness God will not condemn us to our own choice.
It will be better for all of us if you tell me plainly," said the old man, with a queruloussound in his voice.
If I had had a good fortune it would have been quite different," cried poor Louisa, with a little flow of tears and a querulous sob, as though that too was Gerald's fault.
She said all this in an even, querulous tone, as though she were recounting the injustices of fate, which had to be borne as part of the natural order of things.
Dangling his cane about, and taking snuff, Lothario cries, What philosophic stuff-- O querulous and weak!
A querulous old woman's voice His humorous talent next employs, He scolds, and gives the lie.
There was a querulous murmur of interruption in Lacy's voice, but whether of defiance or appeal I could not distinguish.
It was then that the querulous crane rose, and testily protested against the selling of his favorite haunt in the sandy peninsula, which only six months of Jim's excesses had made imperative.
At last he said, in a querulous tone: 'You're a stranger to me.
Read it yourself, Mary," said the last, in his querulous tones.
At each instant the former was at the latter's elbow, making some querulous suggestion, or asking a question that betrayed the agitated and unsettled state of his mind.
Go," said the weak, querulous voice, and Molly went.
Her life seemed to have narrowed itself into the care of one querulous invalid.
And though the querulous are seldom received with great ardour of kindness, I hope to escape the mortification of finding that my lamentations spread the contagion of impatience, and produce anger rather than tenderness.
It was her mother's voice in the doorway, and she had been vaguely conscious of another voice pitched in the same querulous key, which, indeed, was the dominant expression of the small ranchers of that fertile neighborhood.
Then there was a tap on her door and her mother's querulous voice.
Without the slightest notice of Lance, he inflicted his protesting and querulous presence entirely on his daughter.
I'm shedding my life's blood drop by drop to keep that querulous fool alive--just merely alive!
Cousin Fanny Hemlock is a dried-up, querulousold woman of seventy.
He possessed the daring of the typical Kentuckian, with the dead calm of the stoic philosopher; imperturbable; never vexed or querulous or excited; denying himself none of the indulgences of the gentleman of leisure.
She went to the 'phone, expecting to hear a querulous woman's voice asking, "Has the doctor started yet?
Of course the bear had long ere this perceived his enemy at the foot of the tree; and, uttering a series of low querulous cries, had desisted from his cabbage eating, and placed himself in an attitude of defence.
Some of us were querulous up to that time, and doubted of the wisdom of making the voyage.
Callista, an almost [289] querulous edge to her voice.
The banjo, lacking a string and with the remaining four sagging woefully, yet spoke its querulous little protest in her fingers.
They were about to climb inside of the coach with Miss Moore when a shrill, querulous voice from a general store across from the station attracted their attention.
The girls entered the kitchen very quietly and tiptoed through the living-room hoping that their elderly hostess had not yet awakened, but a querulous voice was calling: "Dories, is that you?
But before Dories could explain, a querulous voice from the adjoining room called, "Girls, its five o'clock!
But Mirza happened to hear all Sabat's querulous harangue, and, in order to vex and disgust him effectually, rode almost into his house, and came in with his shoes.
The poor Arab wrote me a querulous epistle from Calcutta, complaining that no one took notice of him now that I was gone; and then he proceeds to abuse his best friends.
So cried the querulous sea voices, and they tempted him: "All you have known is desolation and vanity.
The querulous voice of his wife's mother came to him as some one led her from the heated house into the coolth of the June night.
The long reach to Buenos Aires, and the querulous sea-birds mocking him: On the land is desolation and pettiness and disappointment.
Casaubon, querulous but not envious, paid freely the homage which Scaliger was prepared to exact, and wrote as to one superior in age, in general celebrity, and in impetuosity of spirit.
I may linger on in this way for years, but I will never be anything but a querulous invalid.
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