"Pettishly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me like a child," she said almost pettishly. "Don't try so hard to be cheerful. It—it ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... he heard the broken voice say that; but, boy-like, he wouldn't own it, and said pettishly, as he rubbed ...
— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott
... there was nothing at all," she declared, nervously and pettishly. "It is all an awful mistake. I wish that dreadful man could be punished severely for what he said to me. To be outraged and insulted this way ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... Zell pettishly, "you know well enough that by the time we were sixteen our heads were so full of beaux, parties, and dress, that French and music were a bore. We went through the fashionable mills like the rest, and if father had continued worth a million or so, no one would ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... foolishness," said Aline pettishly, tears of annoyance in her eyes. "And I wish you wouldn't ...
— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... her own way," said Adah, pettishly. "Emily Warren, thee shouldn't pet her so if thee doesn't want to ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... a coarse-tongued virago, but even Anna, who had shrunk from her, felt a little mollified and touched as she saw how tenderly the rough hand rested on the child's curls. But Kit pushed it pettishly away. "Don't, Ma'am, you've been and gone and spoiled Jemima's ball dress, and she is going to wear it to-night," and Kit held up a modicum of blue gauze which certainly did not bear the slightest resemblance to a garment, and regarded ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... at proper times,' said Mr. Millbank, somewhat pettishly; 'tell him the regulations;' and he was about ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli
... not on a whaling-voyage, where everything that offers is game," said Barnstable, turning himself pettishly away from the beast, as if he distrusted his own forbearance; "but stand fast! I see some one approaching behind the hedge. Look to your arms, Mr. Merry,—the first thing we hear ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper
... at the hotel, thinking Latimer might have returned, but Mrs. Latimer pettishly denied any knowledge of his whereabouts. He often went for long walks, she said, and seldom returned until late. "Won't you stay until he returns?" she ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... your view," said he pettishly. "But you've had easy going of it, out of college into a nice home, with a lot of those pink-faced chaps to ride you around in their automobiles, and opera and plays and horse-shows and all ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... contrivances—like the wheel or the lever—which smooth and simplify earthly life, and the charm of whose utility no obviousness can stale. But of course any contrivance can be rendered futile by clumsiness or negligence. There is a sort of Christmas giver who says pettishly: "Oh! I don't know what to give to So-and-So this Christmas! What a bother! I shall write and tell her to choose something herself, and send the bill to me!" And he writes. And though he does not suspect it, what he really writes, ...
— The Feast of St. Friend • Arnold Bennett
... vexatious narrative again," exclaimed the lizard, pettishly; "I never had such a tail in my life! Its restless tendency to divorce upon insufficient grounds is enough to harrow the reptilian soul! Now," he continued, backing up to the fugitive part, "perhaps you will be good enough to resume your connection ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)
... offended and turned to Sallie for consolation, saying to her rather pettishly, "There isn't a bit of flirt in ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... know?" remarked the Doctor-in-Law pettishly. "I'd never met a single one of Henry the Eighth's wives in my life, and how was I to ...
— The Wallypug in London • G. E. Farrow
... use of dwelling upon the past?" said Godfrey, pettishly. "We were all very good little boys once. At least my father always told me so; and by the strange contradictions which abound in human nature, I suppose that that was the very reason which made me grow up a bad man. And bad men we both are, Mathews, in the world's acceptation, and we may as ...
— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie
... which he was himself excluded. On the present occasion, the young heiress of Annesley having had for her partner (as often happens at Matlock) some person with whom she was wholly unacquainted, on her resuming her seat, Byron said to her pettishly, "I hope you like your friend?" The words were scarce out of his lips when he was accosted by an ungainly-looking Scotch lady, who rather boisterously claimed him as "cousin," and was putting his pride to the torture with her ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.) - With his Letters and Journals. • Thomas Moore
... pettishly, without looking at the pretended Moussul merchant; "I do not greet you; I will have neither your greeting nor ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... Mr. Craven, pettishly. "Do I suppose this room is haunted; do I believe my offices are haunted? No sane man has faith in any folly of the kind; but the place has got a bad name; I suspect it is unhealthy, and the tenants, when they find that out, seize on the first ...
— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell
... the expedition," said Smith, pettishly, as he saw Fred and myself examining our powder-flasks ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... forgotten; and that, a few weeks after her wedding, she was actually obliged to apply to her husband for money to purchase baskets, iron spoons, clothes-lines, &c.; and her husband, made irritable by the want of money, pettishly demanded why she had bought so many things they did not want. Did the doctor gain any patients, or she a single friend, by offering their visiters water in richly-cut glass tumblers, or serving them with costly ...
— The American Frugal Housewife • Lydia M. Child
... she mounted, switched his tail pettishly when she struck him with the quirt, reluctantly obeyed the rein, and set his feet on the first steep pitch of the Devil's Tooth trail. Old as he was, Rab had never gone down that trail and he chose his footing ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... should choose to be out of the way at such a time as this," Esther pettishly observed. "When all is finished and to rights, we shall have the boy coming up, grumbling for his meal, and hungry as a bear after his winter's nap. His stomach is as true as the best clock in Kentucky, and seldom wants winding up to tell the time, ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper
... log. MacRae sat down beside her. He looked at her searchingly. He could not keep his eyes away. A curious inconsistency was revealed to him. He sat beside Betty, responding to the potent stimuli of her nearness and wishing pettishly that she were a thousand miles away, so that he would not be troubled by the magic of her lips and eyes and unruly hair, the musical cadences of her voice. There was a subtle quality of expectancy about her, as if she sat there waiting for him ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... a day or two after—after last night—you might be happy without much gaiety;" and she turned pettishly from me, as she added, "I hope the boars ...
— The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope
... Cynthia!" Lady Torrington exclaimed, a little pettishly. "However, you found your way ...
— The Evil Shepherd • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... on some high white land, about a league southward of Boulogne, and with strong field-glasses, which he pettishly exchanged in doubt of their power and truth, he was scanning all the roadways of the shore and the trackless breadths of sea. His quick brain was burning for despatches overland—whether from the coast road past Etaples, or further inland by the great route from Paris, or away to the southeast ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... thou art a most unmannerly ruffian!" he said pettishly, yet with a vacant smile,—"what question didst thou bawl unmusically in mine ear? Will I be drunk at sunrise? Aye! ... and at sunset too, Sir Malapert, if that will satisfy thee! Hast thou been grudged ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli
... exclaimed his Lordship, jerking his imprisoned legs pettishly, "if I didn't happen to be sitting trussed up here, and we had a couple of pair of muffles, why we might have had a friendly 'go' just to take each other's ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al
... I would," replied the girl pettishly. "Why should any of us want to stay? There's plenty of hard work and plenty of prayers I grant you, and when you have said that you've said all. No decent housen, no butcher's meat, or milk, or garden stuff, or so much as a huckster's shop where one might cheapen a ribbon or a stay-lace—what ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... scared, child," her step-mother said pettishly to her step-daughter; "he won't die, and a pretty burthen he'll be on my hands for the next three weeks. Go to bed—do—and don't let us have you laid up as well. ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming
... floating traditions of the province. The seaman had always evinced a settled pique against the red-faced warrior. On this occasion he listened with peculiar impatience. He sat with one arm a-kimbo, the other elbow on a table, the hand holding on to the small pipe he was pettishly puffing; his legs crossed, drumming with one foot on the ground and casting every now and then the side glance of a basilisk at the prosing captain. At length the latter spoke of Kidd's having ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... don't," said Mrs. Peyton pettishly, "nor do I want to! You know, John, how distasteful and unpleasant it is for me to have those dreary, petty, and vulgar details of the poor child's past life recalled, and, thank Heaven, I have forgotten them except when you choose to drag them before me. You agreed, long ago, that we were ...
— Susy, A Story of the Plains • Bret Harte
... almighty!" spluttered Pop, reaching reluctantly into his pocket for the money. "Jeff, he done some pullin' himself—I wish I knowed," he added pettishly, "just how big ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower
... Half pettishly she answered, "Because i like sometimes to be alone," then, rising up and turning toward me she asked if "the water still ran over the, old mill dam in the west woods just as it used to do," Saying if it did, she wished to see it. ...
— Rosamond - or, The Youthful Error • Mary J. Holmes
... Dutch envoys, telling them that they were quite unjustifiable in not following Sir Robert Cecil's advice, and in not engaging with him at once in peace negotiations; at least so far as to discover what the enemy's intentions might be. She added, pettishly, that if Prince Maurice and other functionaries were left in the enjoyment of their offices, and if the Spaniards were sent out of the country, there seemed no reason why such terms should ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... sick of hearing about your position," said his wife pettishly. "In the days when you had not any, we were a lot happier. You didn't turn up your nose at my associates when I was on the boards at the Band Box! Everything was charming. You laughed then at what you now call "vulgar," and you thought it good fun, and you would have ...
— If Only etc. • Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris
... always gone," said Louis, pettishly. "I suppose Charlie has it. He had it yesterday—he might as well let me ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... very cross!" she said pettishly; "I will go and talk to Mr Mawley, until you get into a better mood, sir, and ...
— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson
... cramped letters," she said, pettishly; "why should you write such a hand? Besides, I feel as if I were really forging, or doing something dreadful. I suppose," she added, with unconcealed bitterness of tone, "we shall have to go on as we began, and you must be Zillah Molyneux ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... before to the prerogatives of the king. The pedantic presumption of James was safe till it rubbed against the more stubborn pride of Coke. The monarch was of opinion that the constitution and the law allowed him personally to try causes between his loyal subjects. "By my soul," he said pettishly to Coke, who begged leave to differ, "I have often heard the boast that your English law was founded upon reason. If that be so, why have not I and others reason as well as you, the judges?" Coke explained ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... Drysdale had been unusually cheerful until then, but as they entered the shadow, he began to lose his gayety, as if something disagreeable had been suggested to him. It was now approaching twilight, and he turned toward Andrews half pettishly, and said: ...
— The Somnambulist and the Detective - The Murderer and the Fortune Teller • Allan Pinkerton
... Mr. Jack Smith of Liverpool, his boyish face flushing again, and as he spoke he disengaged the trinket from its neighbours, and jerked it pettishly overboard, "I know nothing of your Shaws ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... the consciousness of it struck him more and more dumb, till his presence was like a damper on the festivities; so much so, that when at three in the afternoon he and Katie took their departure, the door had no more than closed on them before Elspie exclaimed pettishly: "An' indeed I wish Katie'd left Cousin Donald behind. I don't know what it is she thinks so much of him for. She's always sayin' there's none like him; an' it's lucky it's true. The great glowerin' ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... pettishly, "go thy ways, Hans; you dream, or are mad, or drunk. What you see is quite impossible. I should as soon believe my old grey mare had got into the garret as that my wife was ...
— Folk-lore and Legends: German • Anonymous
... anything about legs, and there aren't any in the pictures." "I can't help it, Nibble!" replied Brighteyes, rather pettishly. "I can't cut off my legs, and I am going to play mermaid. I can be the queen, and queens have everything they want, I know." And she turned round, displaying to my view a superb tail of seaweed, fastened to her sash, ...
— Five Mice in a Mouse-trap - by the Man in the Moon. • Laura E. Richards
... undoubtedly made a mistake in "never thinking" of her future as a clergyman's wife; and now he was blindly expecting a miraculous transformation of the butterfly into a drone, while the butterfly was poising her wings, impatient for flight. I sat silent, and Delphine said pettishly:— ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... raft is ever going to float any more than the mill itself," he remarked pettishly to his sister Elta one day in October, as they sat together on the Venture and watched the sluggish current ...
— Raftmates - A Story of the Great River • Kirk Munroe
... him very firmly that this was piffle of the most wretched sort. That his caller wore but the prescribed number of garments, each vogue to the last note, and that he was a person whom one must know. He responded pettishly that he vastly preferred the gentleman driver with whom he had spent the afternoon, and "Sour-dough," as he was ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... what's the use of promising for one afternoon, when I have taken the best of care of her all her life? You act so singularly to-day!" she added, pettishly, and she began to smooth Mabel's hair, grumblingly. I turned away without another word, murmuring blessings in my heart on ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield
... sit down, he refused the strawberries, which Albine pettishly threw away. She did not open her lips again. She would rather have seen him ill, as in those earlier days when she had given him her hand for a pillow, and had felt him coming back to life beneath the ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... colleagues, but that he could give no promise to recall the mandate of the municipality—it was more than he dare undertake to do, and so forth. The long and short of it was, he politely sent them about their business. They came away, working the fans more pettishly than ever, and liquid voices were heard to hiss scornfully that the Republic, which proclaimed respect for all religions and rights, was a lie, for its first thought was to trample on the national religion, and to dispossess an inoffensive corporation of cloistered ladies of their right to then property. ...
— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea
... hot at all," said Sylvia pettishly. "Nonsense! I'm not made of butter—I sha'n't melt. Thank you, dear, you needn't pull the blind down." And then, as though angry with herself for her anger, she added, "You are always thinking of me, Maurice," and gave him her ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... She spoke pettishly, and he only answered by coming across and holding out his hand to say good-bye. She rose and put out both hers, intending to say, as she often did when she had been cross, "Don't be angry, Maurice, I did not mean it," but the words would not come. Her courage suddenly gave way, and ...
— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... Marquis retorted pettishly, "but I don't. I don't see. And I beg to remind you, M. de Rosny, that this lad is my wife's second cousin through her step-father, and that I shall resent any interference with him. I have spent enough and done enough in the King's service to have my wishes respected in ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... home, anyhow, if you mean me," she said pettishly. She looked at Eveley. "I suppose you think it is very clever for you to be engaged to Nolan twenty-four hours without notifying me, after all the trouble I have taken in the last five years to bring it about. And as for you, Nolan, I think you have a lot of courage ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston
... I interrupted and, turning aside pettishly, began to haul my cockboat down to the water, "since you choose to treat me like a baby of six, I suppose it's no wonder you take Plinny ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... bit her lip, and was silent. After a few moments' climbing she said, almost pettishly, "Where is ...
— Jeff Briggs's Love Story • Bret Harte
... could not take a jest then, and pettishly answered that "if he kept such a stupid man as Jeff, he could not ...
— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe
... desire to please. But when at the end of the third song Arnold still made no response, when not the flicker of an eyelid or the faintest dawn of a smile showed either approbation or pleasure, the spoiled child threw her guitar aside, and spoke pettishly. ...
— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade
... as likely as the holiest of 'em to refresh ourselves all night on a stone bolster," pettishly replied the unthankful youth, as he ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... Serra by heart," said Paulo, a little pettishly. "I wish it were not too hot to go out; I should like to take a walk. Surely, San Miguel is the hottest spot on earth. The very fleas are ...
— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton
... forget William's vulgar story in billiards, but he had spoiled my game. My opponent, to whom I can give twenty, ran out when I was sixty-seven, and I put aside my cue pettishly. That in itself was bad form, but what would they have thought had they known that a waiter's impertinence caused it! I grew angrier with William as the night wore on, and next day I punished him by giving ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various
... Tracy boldly made direct inquiry; for Julian set her on to beg for a commission, and Charles also was anxious for a year or two at college; but the general divulged not much: albeit he vouchsafed to both his sons a liberally increased allowance. It was only when his wife, piqued at such reserve, pettishly remarked, ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... said the child, pettishly; "Mr. Wood he sets me to watch the geese, and they runs in among the buckwheat and the potatoes, and I tries to drive them out, and they doesn't want to come, and," shamefacedly, "I has to switch their feet, and I hates to do it, 'cause I'm a ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders
... a gesture of exasperation. "Ah-h! come off the perch!" he snarled pettishly, "what sort of old 'batman's' gaff are you trying ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... not propose a balloon," she continued pettishly. "The gods don't give everything to one person: now, they give us brains, and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various
... called; housewives looked and disapproved; children stared and jealous canines pettishly barked at the haughty Rex; but Johnny only chuckled and cracked his whip. Day by day the green and white caravan rumbled serenely on, camping by night ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... the maid, pettishly. She had risen to her feet, but still was troubled about her tumbled hair. "I am to be married to one, and so have run away. That is why I am wandering in ...
— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick
... bid her get something else. She said she had nothing—nothing at all. At last she thought of her hair, and pulling some of it out of her head, made a string. But he instantly said it would not answer, and bid her, pettishly, and with authority, make him a noose. She told him there was nothing to make it of, and went out of the lodge. She said to herself, when she had got without the lodge, and while she was all alone, "neow obewy indapin." From ...
— The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians • Henry R. Schoolcraft
... the Countess Zamoiska pettishly, "I cannot understand you. Instead of rejoicing over the king's escape, here you begin to cry over the sins of his murderers. All Poland is exasperated against them, and nothing can save them. [Footnote: Lukawski and Strawinski were executed. They died ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... want to laugh," said old Tom, pettishly. Nevertheless, he seemed to be visibly cooling. "If you ain't in here to make money," he added to Austen, "I don't care how long ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... tempest in a tea cup, as usual," she declared pettishly. "I do wish, Esther, that you would not be so disagreeable. She will have forgotten all about the ring by to-morrow. All she needs is a ...
— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... completed his walk, the enjoyment of which Tallente had entirely spoilt. He held out his hand a little pettishly. ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... was impossible to make the old man realize his own absurdity. "Well, you needn't bite my head off," he said pettishly. "Come on, let's go out. A little rain ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner
... as her Valkyria came abreast of her, Elfgiva spoke pettishly: "You see fit to sing a different tune from what you did when you tried to hinder me from this undertaking. I should have brighter hopes if I had not given ear to your advice to send a messenger ahead. If I could have come upon him before ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... of this old museum," said Alicia, a little pettishly. "You've had your way, Dotty, now it's only fair I should have mine. We've about an hour left; ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... Judge had become quite sensitive about the ridiculous complaint his children had given to him, and after struggling with it pettishly for some time, and the vacation coming along, he had finally proposed the New Zealand trip to his wife, the children being sent to complete their cure to the summer home he had long ...
— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner
... my father shut the book,—not as if he resolved to read no more of it, for he kept his fore-finger in the chapter:—nor pettishly,—for he shut the book slowly; his thumb resting, when he had done it, upon the upper-side of the cover, as his three fingers supported the lower side of it, without the least ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... said pettishly, for it was bad enough to suffer from one's own feelings, without being troubled at such ...
— Through Forest and Stream - The Quest of the Quetzal • George Manville Fenn
... Fordyce attracted her strongly, and it was plain to be seen he had only eyes for Sabine—who cared for him not at all. The Princess found Cranley Beaton absolutely tiresome—no better than the New York Herald, she thought pettishly, or the Continental Daily Mail—to be with! The waters were getting on her nerves, too; she would be glad to leave and go to Sorrento with that Cupid among infants, Girolamo. Sabine had better ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... you want, boy?" he asked pettishly. "I am at work. I need these figures. I am to speak ...
— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the opening sentence Warren was expecting. Magsie had been petulant the day before, and had pettishly declared that she would not wait a year for any man in the world. Warren had at once seized the opening to say that he would not hold her to anything against her will, to be answered by a burst of tears, and an entreaty not to be "so ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... you're just mean!" she cried, pettishly, to the still forest; and then caught her breath in ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White
... pettishly; "I don't think that the harbor-master is a spirit or a sprite or a hobgoblin, or any sort of damned rot. Neither do I believe it to be an ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... Alice, pettishly. "Do not keep repeating the same thing over and over; you know it is one of your bad habits. Will you stay to lunch? Miss Carew told me ...
— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw
... were the prettiest and best ear-rings in the world. Unluckily, they did not particularly suit his fancy, and the young lady, who had, but half an hour before, professed that she could never be of a different opinion in any thing from that of the man she loved, now pettishly declared that she could not and would not give up her taste. Incensed still more by a bow of submission, but not of conviction, from Mr. Beaumont, she went on regardless of her dearest Mrs. Beaumont's frowns, and vehemently maintained her judgment, quoting, with triumphant volubility, ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth
... said pettishly, "about a soft, plump man with ever so many rings on his hands. . . . Oh, I am glad you came. . . . Look at this child of mine!" cuddling the staring wax doll closer; "she's not undressed yet, and it's long, long after bedtime. ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... that I could offend a temper like yours. I need not ask you to forgive it; I know you cannot harbor anger a minute, and perhaps have forgotten the instances; but I cannot forget them. If you had failings of the same kind and I could recollect any instances where you had spoken pettishly or ill-natured to me, our accounts would then have been balanced, they would have called for mutual forgetfulness and forgiveness; but when, on reflection, I find nothing of the kind to charge you with, my conscience severely upbraids me with ingratitude to you, to whom (under ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse
... of the most grotesque faces, winking her eyes and twinkling her fingers round the head of "Niobe," as she called Lilly, till the other girls were in fits of laughter, and Niobe, though she shrugged her shoulders pettishly and said, "Don't be so ridiculous, Rose Red," was forced to give way. First she smiled, then a laugh was heard; afterward she announced that ...
— What Katy Did At School • Susan Coolidge
... smoking a cigarette. She threw it pettishly into the fire as he dropped on his knees ...
— The Second Honeymoon • Ruby M. Ayres
... what you are thinking about," she said rather pettishly, as she took his offered ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes
... not allowed to prevaricate, all that remained for me to do was to return no reply. But there was stubbornness in my silence; I should have liked to say pettishly: "But you won't let me explain, you won't ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond |
