"Petulantly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Stephen," she said petulantly. "I'm not going to live in half a house with the mill people; and it's no better than a barn, the hideous, ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson
... on the rail, leaning on the mizzen shrouds, inhaling, as it were, poetical sympathy, from the gloomy Rock, then dark and stern in the twilight. There was in all about him that evening much waywardness; he spoke petulantly to Fletcher, his valet; and was evidently ill at ease with himself, and fretful towards others. I thought he would turn out an unsatisfactory shipmate; yet there was something redeeming in the ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt
... her chair petulantly from the table, and half started to rise from it, but Nick Carter's voice, low, but ...
— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter
... be happening SOMEWHERE, George," he broke out in a querulously rising note as he came back into the little shop. He fiddled with the piled dummy boxes of fancy soap and scent and so forth that adorned the end of the counter, then turned about petulantly, stuck his hands deeply into his pockets and withdrew one to scratch his head. "I must do SOMETHING," he ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... fellow don't know how to use these things," he said, petulantly, "he ought to keep away from them. Tell that gentleman so ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... the merrymaking the mother appears and pleads with the girl to return to her home to comfort her dying father. Her lover permits her to do so on her promise to return to him. At home her father entreats her to give up her life of dishonor. She listens to him petulantly. The music of a fte in the city below, voices calling her from a distance, and the flashing lights in the great city below, throw her into a frantic ecstasy; she sings of her love and calls to her ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... to see de madame—must be goin' to see you. (He starts to rise petulantly as Dave comes upon ...
— De Turkey and De Law - A Comedy in Three Acts • Zora Neale Hurston
... petulantly, admitting defeat but resenting it. There came a time, months later, when she understood Grim's peculiar altruism and respected it, but she was a long way just then from ...
— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy
... ROSE. [Petulantly.] Whatever shall we do, John! Me not dressed, everything no how, and them expected in less nor ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin
... me of Jim!" cried Lady Mary petulantly. "He is too provoking, and thinks every woman not positively ugly that smiles upon him delightful; but I lose all patience when I speak of Mrs. Wriothesley. Of course it's quite possible for Mrs. Wriothesley to be Sylla's aunt, although ...
— Belles and Ringers • Hawley Smart
... don't always want Lord Newhaven!" she exclaimed petulantly. "I sent him off for a walk—I'm going out in the ...
— Frivolous Cupid • Anthony Hope
... He swung round petulantly, diving his hand into his pocket for a pipe. When it was filled and lighted, he dragged his chair out on to the verandah, lowered the lamp flame to a glimmer, pushed-to the window, and lay back in the chair, blowing furious clouds of smoke out upon the ...
— The Rider of Waroona • Firth Scott
... nice one, I must say," she remarked, half petulantly. "You might at least have dropped me a note to ask how I am getting along, and whether I am industrious, and all that rot! But did you? No! You took me to the horse show, and back to the hotel, and then vanished as if you had withdrawn yourself ...
— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton
... foreman petulantly. "Which is the lady you mean was married to the defendant in New York? You said she was sitting by the other lady and that you meant the one with the red feather, but you didn't say whether the one with the red feather was the other lady or the one ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... that the manual workers 'have no stake in the country,' and might not find their condition altered for the worse by subjection to a foreign power. A few of our working-men have given colour to this charge by exclaiming petulantly that they could not be worse off under the Germans; but in this they have done themselves and their class less than justice. The anti-militarism and cosmopolitanism of the masses in every country is a profoundly interesting ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge
... use in fault-finding?" Eurie said at last, half petulantly. She was growing very tired of this exhibition. "What did you expect? They are doing as well as they can, without any doubt. Just imagine what it must be to get conveniences together for this vast crowd. They did not expect anything like such a large attendance ...
— Four Girls at Chautauqua • Pansy
... tender for a comfortable spot for his unprotected body, but scratchy, knobby pieces of wood, with a foundation of sharp chunks of coal, was not conducive to rest. A bullet rattling against the engine added to his irritation, and he looked over the edge and fired his revolver petulantly. ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan
... the chief officer petulantly; "and don't repeat my words in that absurd way. Haven't we had ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn
... I think, from us all—indignantly from Sophy, sorrowfully from Fanny, petulantly from Hatty, and from me in ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... I did try," she answered petulantly. "But it is impossible for a woman to devote herself to people for whom there is nothing to be done, who don't want her devotion; and, besides, devotion wasn't my vocation. But, after all," she broke off, defending herself, "I ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... can I do in this cursed hole?" said Dr. Haines petulantly. "No appliances, no means of isolation, no nurses, nothing. Beside, I have half a dozen camps to look after. ...
— The Doctor - A Tale Of The Rockies • Ralph Connor
... said petulantly, "they look as if they had escaped the deluge by some mistake. Oh if I could forget! If I could only forget! And now she has gone! She has gone! I shall never see her again! "Grief feels it a kind of luxury to repeat some supreme cry of misery, and this lamentation for ...
— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr
... is impossible to say; but in other circles of society this shrimp shortage has been responsible for much. From golf-courses this summer has come a stream of complaint that the game is not what it was. Sportsmen, again, have gone listlessly to their task and have petulantly wondered why the bags have been so poor. House-parties have been failures. In many a Grand Stand nerves have gone to pieces. Undoubtedly this grave news from the North Sea is the explanation. What can one expect when there are no ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 29th, 1920 • Various
... you promise the queen," resumed D'Artagnan, petulantly, "to storm the Tower of London, to kill a hundred thousand soldiers, to fight victoriously against the wishes of the nation and the ambition of a man, and when that man is Cromwell? Do not exaggerate your duty. In Heaven's name, my dear Athos, ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... diplomatic gladiators were well matched; between offer and substitute, demand and excuse, feint and counterfeint, the days passed in a most entertaining manner, until suddenly the Czar became aware that time was flying and that he was not making headway. Somewhat petulantly the interview was postponed, for it was clear that the ministers would not agree by the time suggested, and without an agreement Alexander refused to attend. Meanwhile his troops in Finland had met with bitter and obstinate resistance. His army ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane
... word of heroism, of faith," Jack said, thinking of the tumbril. But Valerie turned the leaf a little petulantly. ...
— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... painting the Venice of the East," she cried petulantly, "but for the life of me I can't see a campanile, and how can I possibly paint a picture ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... Tracy, that was mine as it lay!" cried his partner, somewhat petulantly, as she noted ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour
... use the pole or the oars?" said the bank director petulantly; "you kept me waiting half an ...
— Haste and Waste • Oliver Optic
... doctor petulantly. "Why hasn't he been taught English? I don't carry canisters of gunpowder about in my pockets. Can any one make him understand that the powder is in the little magazine on ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn
... no one else was on the roofs round about. She would not have cared if everyone in Sydney was on the roofs. For her no one existed just then but Louis. That had jarred a little. Then there were no more cigarettes and he had, quite petulantly, complained of the trouble of going down into the room for a new tin. She had gone cheerfully, as she would have fetched things for her father. She did not realize that, by waiting on his whims, she was lowering herself in his esteem. He had taken the cigarettes without ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... play the fool!" cried Felicite, petulantly. "If I were you I would act boldly and decisively. Confess now that you made a false move in joining those good-for-nothing Republicans. You would be very glad, I'm sure, to be well rid of them, and to return to us, who are the stronger party. ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola
... and I wish you would hurry and build a fire!" cried Barbara, petulantly, when the girls ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... cruder, colder, more amateurish than the two other plays of its class, full of the sort of talk that falls from the lips of a boy of seventeen just awakened to ideals. Its characters act as openly and as petulantly as children. Mrs. Font, really fine in conception, is in realization only a typical villain of the cheap melodrama; and Commander Lyle, of the Royal Navy, a man of thirty, is as childish in love as a schoolboy whose beloved takes ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt
... at the door and brought in a telegram which she tore open nervously. "He will be here in four days," she said, tearing the telegram petulantly, and not at all as if she were glad to receive it. "Is there anything else that ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... funny world," she observed petulantly; "it looks good from the outside, but when you come to find ...
— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen
... love him," she answered petulantly. "Your eyes can see clearly enough, when they want to. But one does not live on love, in our world. I will tell you the man I am going to marry if you care to know." She would not meet his eyes. She kept her gaze still ...
— Passing of the Third Floor Back • Jerome K. Jerome
... over my mind), but my chief and almost only reason was, that I heard that young men studied there more peacefully, and were kept quiet under a restraint of more regular discipline; so that they did not, at their pleasures, petulantly rush into the school of one whose pupils they were not, nor were even admitted without his permission. Whereas at Carthage there reigns among the scholars a most disgraceful and unruly licence. They burst in audaciously, and with gestures almost frantic, disturb all order which any one hath ...
— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine
... Achilles much sorrow; Ovid tells us that Chione was beautiful enough to inflame two gods, and that Antiope's beauty drew down from heaven the mighty Jove himself; and yet, was either of them formed and shaped more splendidly than she who sat so near me, frowning at what she had written, and petulantly ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol
... leading Concho by the bridle rein, rode over the brow of a hill and came suddenly upon the Little Doctor, sitting disconsolately upon a rock. She had one shoe off, and was striving petulantly to extract a cactus thorn from the leather with a hat pin. Chip rode close and stopped, regarding her with satisfaction from the saddle. It was the first time he had succeeded in finding the Little Doctor alone since the arrival of Dr. Cecil ...
— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower
... Table Bay in twenty-two days from the date of my seeing the Major with the pistol in his hand. His manner had for a week before been marked by an irritability that was often beyond his control. He had talked snappishly and petulantly at table, contradicted aggressively, and on two occasions gave Captain North the lie; but we had carefully avoided noticing his manner, and acted as though he were still the high bred, polished gentleman who had sailed with ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... than was good for our spirits, nor smiled at all, save in a way of the wryest, and was now so grave—nay, sunk deep in blear-eyed melancholy—that 'twas plain no happiness lay in prospect. 'Twas sad weather, too—cold fog in the air, the light drear, the land all wet and black, the sea swishing petulantly in the mist. I had no mind to climb the Watchman, but did, cheerily as I could, because he wished it, as was ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan
... fast enough," said Mark, petulantly, for he was in great pain, "only they are firing at the rigging, so as not ...
— The Black Bar • George Manville Fenn
... was unreal, like a show, like a peepshow. Helena was an actress somewhere in the brightness of this view. He alone was out of the piece. He sighed petulantly, pressing back his shoulders as if they ached. His arms, too, ached with irritation, while his head seemed to be hissing with angry irritability. For a long time he sat with clenched teeth, merely holding himself in check. In his present state of irritability ...
— The Trespasser • D.H. Lawrence
... them a considerable sum of money, as well as some portraits of their long-absent relatives in the United States and interesting family news, my reception was as cold as the snow-blown air outside. I was not allowed to finish explaining my business when I was at first petulantly and then ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... orgies which were a reproach to humanity. He wasted the empire by enormous contributions, and even plundered the temples of his own capital. His wife, Poppaea, died of a kick which she received from this monster, because she had petulantly reproved him. Longinus, an eminent lawyer, Lucan the poet, and Petronius the satirist, alike, were victims of his hatred. This last of the Caesars, allied by blood to the imperial house of Julius, killed himself in his thirty-first year, to prevent ...
— The Old Roman World • John Lord
... Wynter petulantly, "you wouldn't call me 'my dear.' Aunt Jane calls me that when she is going to say something horrid to me. Papa——" she pauses suddenly, and tears rush ...
— A Little Rebel • Mrs. Hungerford
... wilst," cried Mary petulantly. "Indeed it were plain that thou be a De Montfort; that race whose historic bravery be second only ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... in anticipation of this ball! The bird has flown, I know not where or how. I have no pleasure here at all!" exclaimed she, petulantly, although she knew the ball had been really got up mainly for ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... had very little to do!" Flora returned petulantly, the colour deepening on her face and brow, "to tattle about ...
— Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories • T. S. Arthur
... rose from her seat, and stood up, and began to move slowly. Her limbs were stiff with cold, and at first she could hardly walk; but she did not feel that she would be unable to make the journey. Souchey came to her side, but she rejected his arm petulantly. "Do not let him come," she said to Rebecca. "I will do whatever you tell me; I will indeed." Then the Jewess said a word or two to the old man, and he retreated from Nina's side, but stood looking at her till she was out of sight. Then he returned home to the cold ...
— Nina Balatka • Anthony Trollope
... before the glass, arranging her wind-tossed hair; and, in her vehemence, tearing out combfuls, as she pulled petulantly against the tangled curls. 'Her old way—to come over me with my father! Ha!—I love him too well to let him be Miss Charlecote's engine for managing me!—her dernier ressort to play on my feelings. Nor will I have Robin set at me! Whether I go or not, shall be as I please, ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... blowed!" retorted the timber-merchant, petulantly; "he gave me the cut t'other day in Lunnun streets, for which I cuts he off with a shilling. Me make he my heir!—see he doubly hanged first, and wouldn't ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various
... heaven only, and then a change came. Almost had she yielded, but not quite, for now she arose quickly and turning away said half petulantly, "Oh, please don't speak of that now and spoil our visit. Let us go ...
— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn
... said Ed petulantly. "Who could bear to go to bed on a night like this? Besides, you can tell Miss Kent that I broke my paddle and we had ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods - Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping • Hildegard G. Frey
... Petulantly Brent had carried his woe to the Colonel, but, instead of sympathy, he found the old gentleman radiant;—declaring Dale would become so utterly absorbed in learning the secrets of this science, that the engineer would find himself being led out ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris
... Rainey. "Little sleep was all he needed." Mr. Hallowell shook his head petulantly. "Not at all!" he protested. "That was a very serious attack. This morning my head ...
— Vera - The Medium • Richard Harding Davis
... said Jennie, petulantly; "we've wasted half an hour! What's the use for you to be always getting into trouble? A great many berries we shall have at this rate! and I was going to ask my mamma to let ...
— Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's • Sophie May
... "Mother," cried Barclay, petulantly, "I can't stand this—that you should turn on me—now." He broke away from her, and stood alone. "When I need you most, you reproach me. When I need sympathy, you scorn all that I have done. You can't prove your God. Why should I ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White
... a D, and then successively E, H, A, V were given. No one ever heard of a Polish or Hungarian name of the kind, and I remember saying petulantly: "Oh, give it up, Morton. It's all nonsense! Nobody ever heard of ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates
... mad," she said petulantly. "The world is mad nowadays, and is galloping to the deuce as fast as greed can goad it. I merely stand out of the rush, not liking its destination. Here comes a barge, the commander of which is devoted to me because he believes that I am organizing ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... uneasy figure went on before them among the evening shadows, the boy said to his sister, petulantly: ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... eyes looked strangely poetic under the frosty gleam of the electric light, and his straight pale yellow hair shone like an aureole round the head of some modern saint. He was eating strawberries rather petulantly, as a child eats pills, and his cheeks were now violently flushed. He looked younger than ever, and it was difficult to believe that ...
— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens
... to me that a Lorrigan is always making me put on a coat!" cried Mary Hope petulantly. "And now, ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... the very thing that makes me think I have lost them," said Louisa, rather petulantly. "It is very tiresome of you, Emily. I do wish you never would touch any thing ...
— Domestic pleasures - or, the happy fire-side • F. B. Vaux
... are addicted to what is called 'improving reading' inquire of you petulantly why you cannot find change of company and scene in books of travel, you should answer cautiously that when books of travel are full of inns, atmosphere, and motion, they are as good as any novel; nor is there any reason in ...
— Obiter Dicta - Second Series • Augustine Birrell
... wants to be paraded in a show?" said the doctor petulantly. "I would rather stop in prison than be led out ...
— In the Mahdi's Grasp • George Manville Fenn
... President Folsom XXIV said petulantly to his Secretary of the Treasury: "Blow me to hell, Bannister, if I understood a single word of that. Why can't I buy the Nicolaides Collection? And don't start with the rediscount and the Series W business again. Just tell ...
— The Adventurer • Cyril M. Kornbluth
... do as she chose," said Barold petulantly. "She would do things which were unusual; but I was not referring to her in particular. ...
— A Fair Barbarian • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... her side, and contentedly puffed at his cigar until, at length, she turned upon him, and struck petulantly at the hand that had just removed it from his lips. The weed fell from his fingers to the ground, and Cora set her slippered heel upon it, as if it were ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... patriotic feeling in one of the darkest hours of the nation's history. It was the story of one Philip Nolan, an army officer, whose head had been turned by Aaron Burr, and who, having been censured by a court-martial for some minor offense, exclaimed, petulantly, upon {572} mention being made of the United States Government, "Damn the United States! I wish that I might never hear the United States mentioned again." Thereupon he was sentenced to have his wish, and was kept all his life aboard the vessels of the ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... Mrs. Redmond, intent on pleasing herself, drew her friend to the seat beside her as she said petulantly, "Gilbert tells me nothing, and I am constantly discovering things which might have given me pleasure had he only chosen to be frank. I've spoken of you often, yet he never betrayed the least knowledge of you, and I take it very ill of him, because I am sure he has not ...
— Pauline's Passion and Punishment • Louisa May Alcott
... she shot sidling up it. Meanwhile enormous masses of leaden-coloured clouds formed above our heads and on the sea-line; but these were always shifting in the strife of winds, and the sun shone through them petulantly. As we climbed the rollers, or sank into their trough, the outline of the bay appeared in glimpses, shyly revealed, suddenly withdrawn from sight; the immobility and majesty of mountains contrasted with the weltering waste of water round us—now ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... boys" in various poses of photographic self-consciousness. There were also pictures of the marvelously beautiful countryside, but as she neared the end of them, Helen was disappointed to find none of Wade. "Of course, he wouldn't send me one of him," she said petulantly to herself, and she was rapidly running through the remaining prints only to pause suddenly at the very last, while a rosy tide flooded ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony
... Petulantly Louis chid these discordant minstrels of the night, and joyfully he hailed the first gush of moonlight that rose broad and full and red over the Oak ...
— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill
... would sell out and go to live in Jericho, or some other remote place!" cried Mrs. Kilton, petulantly. Then added eagerly: "Oh Avary, perhaps she will—after all this. It will stir the ...
— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... the Count. "I've seen all I want to of this place. It's nothing but banks and restaurants. What's Athabasca Landing like, Colonel Howell?" he added a little petulantly. ...
— On the Edge of the Arctic - An Aeroplane in Snowland • Harry Lincoln Sayler
... to do with it?" he asked petulantly, springing to his feet. "They'd moved off long before I went back. Besides, Indians don't run off with white women. Haven't I spent my life among them? I should ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... "Yes," said Mabyn petulantly, "that is what every one says: nobody expects Wenna ever to have a moment's enjoyment to herself. Oh, here is old Uncle Cornish—he's a great friend of Wenna's: he will be dreadfully hurt if she passes him without saying ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875. • Various
... their dances and their horse-races, he was abstinent even at a festival, and incorrupt himself, perpetually admonished the dissipated citizens of their impious abandonment of the laws of their country. The Antiochians libelled their emperor, and petulantly lampooned his beard, which the philosopher carelessly wore neither perfumed nor curled. Julian, scorning to inflict a sharper punishment, pointed at them his satire of "the Misopogon, or the Antiochian; the Enemy of the ...
— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli
... felt all rubbed the wrong way, just as Cicely and I feel, and just hate the sight of a teacher, and want to do everything you could to plague them," said Toinette, petulantly. ...
— Caps and Capers - A Story of Boarding-School Life • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... and why it should have expended itself so abruptly, Sally was not psychologist enough to explain; but that it had existed there was ocular evidence of the most convincing kind. A heavy niblick, flung petulantly—or remorsefully—into a corner, showed by what medium ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... me, daughter," he reiterated, half petulantly, "I fear that you do not appreciate, or rather that you misinterpret my motive in sending you on so grand a journey. How many girls there are who vainly wish, from day to day, for such advantages as ...
— Leah Mordecai • Mrs. Belle Kendrick Abbott
... a moment, and I caught at the pause to interrupt him somewhat petulantly. "And if we succeed?" I said, in a questioning voice, for I was in that happy age of youth and that sanguinity of temperament which makes it hard to realize that failure can associate its grayness ...
— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... if I must act without instruction from Rome," the Bishop went on petulantly. "Twice have I warned you against your teachings—but I did not suspect then, for only yesterday did I learn that before coming to me you had been confined in a monastery—insane! But—Hombre! when you bring the blush of shame to my cheeks ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... to you, not to me; you are his pet, I am Mrs. Farnham's," said Isabel, a little petulantly. "I shouldn't so much mind if I were in your place, ...
— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens
... Damaris spoke petulantly and watched the dog waddle back and sit down beside the maid, who, busy crocheting, sat on a stone some few yards from the Temple, to which she had ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... wish to injure him, only to get him out of the way, so that he will lose the run of you," replied Tom, petulantly. "He don't know ...
— Seek and Find - or The Adventures of a Smart Boy • Oliver Optic
... old gentleman, petulantly, "I want fire and shelter; and there's your great fire there blazing, crackling, and dancing on the walls, with nobody to feel it. Let me in, I say; I only want to ...
— The Ontario Readers - Third Book • Ontario Ministry of Education
... would not look at the princes who came to woo her from the kingdoms round about, because, she said, they all came in the same way, in carriages which had four wheels and were drawn by four horses. "Why could not one come in a carriage with five wheels?" she exclaimed petulantly, one day, "or why come in a carriage at all?" She added: "If one came in a flying ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various
... never should get here!" said Joy, petulantly. "The cars were so dusty, and your coach jolts terribly. I shouldn't think the town would ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... Mark Twain thus petulantly and humorously expresses his dislike of the name, Tahoe, and ...
— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James
... women, young or old," petulantly repeated John; "I want Richard.—Lift me up, Richard; take ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge
... can't he get out on bail?" asked Viola, rather petulantly. "I'm sure the charge, absurd as it is, is not such as would make them keep him locked up without being allowed to get bail. I thought only ...
— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele
... picture which is presented by Professor Masson and other writers less important—of a truant schoolboy, a pathetic figure, who had petulantly cast away from him the consolations of religion. Monsieur Callet, his French biographer, knew better than this: 'Il fallait l'admirer, lui, non le plaindre,' is the last ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton
... seems rather impertinent and forth-putting for a new nation like that to be setting up opinions of its own, and finding fault with the good old English customs," said Imogen, petulantly. ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge
... have it that he saved my life, then he has got it. It was not for me. Oh no! It was not for me that I—It was not fear! There!" She finished petulantly: "And you may just ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... exclaimed petulantly, looking at him inquiringly. "Dios! what have I done that everybody comes to give me advice when I have so many other ...
— When Dreams Come True • Ritter Brown
... for hobbies," he exclaimed, half petulantly. "What I must do is this work. The man we are to meet to-night is Mr. Polk. It ...
— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough
... I know," said the archdeacon petulantly. "I forgot all about it at the moment. Is anything ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... although burning with rage at the affront, still thought that as he was on duty he was bound to obey, and tied up the ribbon of the sock. Then Kotsuke no Suke, turning from him, petulantly exclaimed: "Why, how clumsy you are! You cannot so much as tie up the ribbon of a sock properly! Any one can see that you are a boor from the country, and know nothing of the manners of Yedo." And with a scornful laugh he ...
— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
... said Enid, a trifle petulantly. "I suppose there's some mystery about it. Of course there must be, or else he'd have come here himself, so we may as well change the subject. How do you like the new flat, ...
— The Missionary • George Griffith
... won't play that!" cried Necia, petulantly. "If all this is going to end when we get to Lee's cabin, ...
— The Barrier • Rex Beach
... the entire foreground. Life is, to such, the mirror which ministers to vanity. Should a husband appear in the picture, he is soon relegated to the background, receiving only occasional glances over the shoulder. If children dance into the field of vision, they are petulantly driven elsewhere. Tell me? Did Sister Seraphine's desire for life include any expression of the ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay
... worse," exclaimed Aunt Fanny's mistress, petulantly. "I'm black and blue from head to ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... Out Brookline way, I guess. I wish you hadn't brought this fool of a horse," she gave way petulantly. "I wanted to ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... fool questions," he said petulantly. "I know nothing. I didn't even feel the blow. I just remember taking aim, and ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... window. I looked at him in silence. I knew his manner. Confession was on the tip of his tongue, and yet he would not speak. But I waited patiently. Finally the silence became oppressive, and he swung around at me petulantly. ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... me a fool?" he said, petulantly, to himself. "Why should he always hold himself above the rest of us? I'm working for the Companies just as he is, and there is no reason why he should try that bluff with me. 'When this double purpose can no longer be served ...
— The Lever - A Novel • William Dana Orcutt
... seriously ill, poor soul," he said. "I am sorry I spoke so petulantly and so unfairly when we met at the club. The near prospect of death has developed qualities in her nature which I ought to have seen before this. No matter how it may be delayed, I will patiently wait her time for ...
— The Black Robe • Wilkie Collins
... Etta rather petulantly, "that we shall be so horribly dull that even M. de Chauxville will be a ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
... homesick, if that is what you mean," said Nora petulantly. "Of course I'll be that at first. I expect it—but people get over that. And it is not as if I were going away for good. I'll ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... on his long, yellow countenance. At one side wigs stood in a row on blocks, a brilliant, magenta coat lay in a huddle on a chair. At intervals he spoke, in a thinner, higher voice than customary, petulantly uneasy, or with a familiar, sardonic inflection. At the latter Ludowika would grow immensely cheered. She entirely ignored Howat on the occasions when he was in the room. He saw her mostly bent over leather boxes, into which disappeared her rich store of silk and gold brocades, shoes ...
— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... are going to make it all the worse by being stupid," cried the girl petulantly. "Why can't you be nice, as you used to be before you got this ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... don't always want Lord Newhaven," she exclaimed petulantly; "I sent him off for a walk—I'm going out in the ...
— Comedies of Courtship • Anthony Hope
... the old gentleman, petulantly. "I want fire, and shelter; and there's your great fire there blazing, cracking, and dancing on the walls, with nobody to feel it. Let me in, I say; I only ...
— Junior Classics, V6 • Various
... "Pazzie—stuff!" said Riccabocca petulantly; "her marriage portion would be as nothing to a young man of Randal's birth and prospects. I think not of that. But listen; I have never consented to profit by Harley L'Estrange's friendship for me; my scruples would not extend to my son-in-law. ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various
... know," said Madge, petulantly; "he is so restless, and never seems to settle down to anything. He says for the rest of his life he is going to do nothing; but ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume
... stiff, old maid of a parlor that had sprung completely furnished from the brain of a decorator some two decades before and never blinked an eyelid since. It was a room with which no one had ever taken liberties. Hattie had once petulantly remarked that her father would as soon have moved a tooth from his lower to his upper jaw, as to have moved an ornament or picture from the parlor to the ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice
... and though it lays bare to us the mere misery of life, it suggests something of life's mystery also. Very delicate, too, is the handling of external Nature. There are no formal guide-book descriptions of scenery, nor anything of what Byron petulantly called 'twaddling about trees,' but we seem to breathe the atmosphere of the country, to catch the exquisite scent of the beanfields, so familiar to all who have ever wandered through the Oxfordshire lanes in June; to ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... "Trottle," petulantly repeated Jarber, with a little flourish of his cane; "how is Trottle to restore the lost peace ...
— A House to Let • Charles Dickens
... father!" said the boy, petulantly and proudly; "or," he added, in a lower voice, but one which showed emotion, "my cousin may think you mean less kindly than you always ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... dragged itself by before she arose petulantly, half terrified, half annoyed in spite of herself. Her husband still was sitting in the big chair, his face in his hands. His small, dejected figure appealed to her pity for the first time in the two years of their association. She realized what ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... going to run away, and we are not going to make ourselves liable to any punishment," interposed Sanford, rather petulantly. "We can have a good time on shore without running away, ...
— Up The Baltic - Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark • Oliver Optic
... something to say, and scarcely knew how to begin; she hesitated, laughed, blushed, and patted the ground petulantly with her little foot. At last she said, with a smile and ...
— The Youth of Jefferson - A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 • Anonymous
... signify?" interrupted Quirk, rather petulantly—"I've got a crotchet that'll do for us, yet, about the matter of law, and make all right and tight—so I'm going ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren
... respectful and—absent-minded. In the afternoon the junior went over the case, and renewed search for authorities and opinions, fully determined to be constant in spite of his inclination to be fickle. Late in the day he petulantly threw aside the books, curtly informed his astonished uncle that he was not feeling well, and left the office. Until dinner time he played billiards atrociously at his club; at dinner his mother sharply reproved ...
— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... performing monkey had ceased and its owner changed the tune on the piano-organ again. He handed the monkey a little toy gun with one hand while he still turned the crank with the other. The monkey threw the gun down petulantly at first, but Tony threatened him and finally the animal held it when it ...
— The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna - or, The Crew That Won • Gertrude W. Morrison
... that she should be counting on Sorell's neighbourhood. If she had often petulantly felt at Oxford that he was too good, too high above her to be of much use to her, she might perhaps have felt it doubly now. For although in some undefined way, ever since the night of the Vice-Chancellor's party, she had realised in him a deep interest ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... bunch of the wild roses that hung around and above her, and dashed them petulantly into the stream. She watched them as their course was interrupted by the large masses of rock, and they were tossed here and there by the angry mischievous water. At last they hung trembling on a huge stone, ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale
... not been for the overshadowing Rosamond, would have chosen her for the close intimacy for which Constance had shown she was quite ready and willing. But she had a feeling that in so praising Constance, Bruce was neglecting Rosamond, and she said rather petulantly: ...
— Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge • Pemberton Ginther
... never see the gaze-hounds more," he answered petulantly; "my time for sport is over. I must set forth for ...
— Frida, or, The Lover's Leap, A Legend Of The West Country - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore • R. D. Blackmore
... Jack," my father cried petulantly. "There is nothing practical about you. Instead of confining your attention to the working out of my noble scheme, you begin raising all sorts of absurd objections. It is a mere matter of detail how our descendants live, so long as they stick to the Djarmas. ...
— The Mystery of Cloomber • Arthur Conan Doyle
... open half a dozen books, start for a walk, and then turn back, wander about in mind or body, seeking but not finding content in anything, a child in my mood will wish for a toy, an amusement, food, a rare indulgence, only to neglect or even reject it petulantly when granted. These flitting "will-spectres" are physical, are a mild form of the many fatal dangers of fatigue; and punishment is the worst of treatment. Rest or diversion is the only cure, and the teacher's mind ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall
... a King Heremon of Ireland," answered the Professor quite petulantly—as if the Commander had wanted to know if there had ever been a Julius Caesar or a Napoleon. "And so there was a Queen Harbundia. Malvina is always spoken of in ...
— Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome
... he was gone, Tost over all her presents petulantly: And when she show'd the wealthy scabbard, saying 'Look what a lovely piece of workmanship!' Slight was his answer 'Well—I care not for it:' Then playing with the blade he prick'd his hand, 'A gracious gift to give a lady, this!' 'But would it be more gracious' ask'd the girl ...
— Enoch Arden, &c. • Alfred Tennyson
... from view by the pendent branches of an old willow-tree, and close under a hawthorn-hedge, now in full, fragrant bloom. Here she seated herself, or rather flung herself down, half languidly, half petulantly, an expression of ennui and unrest darkening her face,—the dusky traces of a sleepless night hanging heavily about her eyes. She opened her book at the play of "Romeo and Juliet," and began to read, not silently, nor yet aloud, but ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various
... manner of the multitude,' he answered somewhat petulantly. 'Illegal murder is always a mistake, but not necessarily a crime. Remember Corday. But in cases where the murder of one is really fiendish, why is it qualitatively less fiendish than the murder of many? On the other hand, had Brutus ...
— Prince Zaleski • M.P. Shiel
... very late," Lady O'Moy greeted him petulantly. Since she spent her life in keeping other people waiting, it naturally fretted her to discover unpunctuality ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... whole affair. "What 'twaddle, farce and by-play,' is it anyhow?" And in my vexation, I found myself on my feet and striding nervously up and down the paved walk that joined the street with the piazza, pausing at last and confronting the Major almost petulantly. "Please explain," I said, controlling my ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley
... all of that last night?" she said petulantly. "Must we go over it all again? If I have ... have pained you, I am sorry. I can't say any more than that, can I? I thought I made you see how I was placed, how there was but the one thing ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... a nobleman's house in his company, and that of Mr. Thrale, to whom I was obliged for the anecdote, was willing to enter the lists in defence of King William's character; and having opposed and contradicted Johnson two or three times, petulantly enough, the master of the house began to feel uneasy, and expect disagreeable consequences; to avoid which, he said, loud enough for the Doctor to hear,—'Our friend here has no meaning now in all this, except just to relate at club to-morrow how he teized Johnson ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell
... the first week she gave way. "I won't get up, Bell," she said one morning, almost petulantly. "I am ill;—I had better lie here out of the way. Don't make a fuss about it. I'm stupid and foolish, ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope
... stripped it bare, than he began such hideous moans as in a few minutes attracted several donations. Another, a blind woman, was brought to her post by a little boy, who carelessly leading her against the step of a door, she petulantly gave him a smart box of the ear, and exclaimed, "D——n you, you rascal, can't you mind what you're about;"—and then, leaning her back to the wall, in the same breath, she began to chaunt a hymn, which soon brought ...
— A Morning's Walk from London to Kew • Richard Phillips
... fresh to go to the Princess's to-morrow night." said Germaine petulantly. "You didn't get any sleep at all last night, you couldn't have. You left Charmerace at eight o'clock; you were motoring all the night, and only got to Paris at ...
— Arsene Lupin • Edgar Jepson
... Chrissie took his arm petulantly, and they started on their return journey, at the rate of about four hours a mile, with little cries and gasps at every ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... when Ermentrude, overcome by the turmoil, grew giddy, and was carried upstairs by her father, who laid her down upon her great bed, and left her to the attendance of Christina. Ursel had followed, but was petulantly repulsed by her young lady in favour of the ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge |
