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  • But Ruth's initial delight soon turned into peevishness.†   (source)
  • And if you don't go over, he'll never know you saw him in his big moment and he'll think he has to behave in your presence the way he's always behaved, sort of peevishly and defensive, instead of in this new, delightful and expansive manner.†   (source)
  • The cold seemed to rouse her a little and she looked around peevishly, shivering.†   (source)
  • He seemed to look down on Phaedrus with womanish peevishness as a spoiler of what should have been a nice experience.†   (source)
  • And then, probably as the image formed in his mind of my leaving him, his peevish humor seemed to crack open like an egg, and out of the corner of his eye came a single tear, which he blinked away just as swiftly as swatting a fly.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Dede felt a little peevish.†   (source)
  • My mother-in-law, who was a former teacher, regarded me with some surprise and then said in a rather peevish way, "No, Zindzi cannot come and see you because she is not yet sixteen."†   (source)
  • There, you see," he said peevishly: "I'm even afraid to make a positive statement.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Jake felt himself getting more and more peevish.†   (source)
  • Petulant—sulky, crabby, peevish, moody, sullen.†   (source)
  • This made his dealings with people difficult, but it did not isolate him, because within five minutes of meeting him it was clear that, despite his peevish attitude, he was generous and candid and had a tremendous capacity for kindness, which he tried in vain to cover up because it embarrassed him.†   (source)
  • She frowned peevishly, her pride wounded.†   (source)
  • "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and a peevish temper.†   (source)
  • At age thirty-seven, he was at his professional prime but, unlike Howe, a man with no bad habits or inclinations to self-indulgence, and if not as intellectually gifted as Clinton, he had no peevish or contrary side.†   (source)
  • He remained that way, breathing hard with peevish anger.†   (source)
  • He reached for a glass while the faun gave his shoes a peevish glance.†   (source)
  • 'He isn't doing it now,' said Rumfoord peevishly.†   (source)
  • You've got that look again," Alec said peevishly, glancing up through his lashes.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily a man who hated to impose, he had peevishly refused Nora's offer of cold cereal for breakfast and requested eggs, although the eggs were packed in a cooler by then and the skillet was in the bottom of a carton.†   (source)
  • I don't really know any other word I can use to describe the expression on Andrew's face except peevish.†   (source)
  • At last a peevish voice said, "What do you expect us to do, gospazha?†   (source)
  • ROS (peevish): Never a moment's peace!†   (source)
  • Reflecting on Sophie's—and for that matter, Nathan's—loving and noble response to music, that peevish, vulgar utterance made my stomach turn over.†   (source)
  • His voice was peevish.†   (source)
  • " After a few moments Cal said peevishly, "I wish you'd get on with your lecture.†   (source)
  • TYRONE With drunken peevishness.†   (source)
  • Don't talk that way," he replied peevishly.†   (source)
  • "Well, that's all very nice but not very helpful," says Fulvia peevishly.†   (source)
  • But to the Count's credit, he was not simply making a peevish point.†   (source)
  • "Headwaiter Rostov," he said almost peevishly, "you have no business being in this office.†   (source)
  • Shooting Max a peevish glance, Rasmussen beckoned his colleagues along.†   (source)
  • Connor had been peevish when Max had shared few details of his previous visit with Commander Vilyak.†   (source)
  • Yet, he assured her, he was neither "fretful nor peevish."†   (source)
  • David nodded but was rubbing his behind and looking peevish.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart blurted out from the corner peevishly.†   (source)
  • It was a peevish thing to do, a petty sort of revenge, but remember who we are dealing with.†   (source)
  • "You set a rather low bar," scoffed Toby, sounding peevish.†   (source)
  • He lit his pipe, puffing at them with the impatient air of a peevish lord.†   (source)
  • Don't tell me what to do," she said peevishly, but her fangs retracted.†   (source)
  • Walder Frey is a peevish man, not a stupid one.†   (source)
  • 'I wish you'd stop picking on me about that dead man in your tent,' he pleaded peevishly.†   (source)
  • And Dora said she won't take orders from her any more, as she was always a carping and peevish mistress, but only from Dr. Jordan, as he who pays the piper calls the tune.†   (source)
  • imitating his peevish expression.†   (source)
  • He would be grouchy for several days before I left for Sawyer Depot, and he would be peevish and aloof for several days after I got back.†   (source)
  • How literary, I thought peevishly.†   (source)
  • "We must accept?" he echoed peevishly.†   (source)
  • Little Walder only looked peevish.†   (source)
  • From me, such accusations would have seemed peevish and sell-serving, a means of placing myself first in the line of succession.†   (source)
  • Same peevish voice— Wyoming picked him out, let her head roll in that old gesture by which a Loonie fem says, "You're too fat for me!†   (source)
  • But I feel bad for eventhinking Andrew might be feeling peevish about me getting to sit in the front seat.†   (source)
  • 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 enough peevishly received.†   (source)
  • In other words, you will act like a gentleman and stop endangering our entire community Grimacing, Max sniffed at the goose and managed a peevish bite.†   (source)
  • "There must be, however," Adams responded, "more employment for the press in favor of the government than there has been, or the sour, angry, peevish, fretful, lying paragraphs which assail it on every side will make an impression on many weak and ignorant people."†   (source)
  • "By rights I should have my sister's command," he admitted, uncomfortably aware of how peevish that sounded.†   (source)
  • Don't expose this croaking and groaning…… I should lose all my character [reputation] for firmness…… Indeed, I sometimes suspect that I deserve a character of peevishness and fretfulness, rather than firmness.†   (source)
  • "Walder Frey is a peevish old man who lives to fondle his young wife and brood over all the slights he's suffered.†   (source)
  • If peevish, and sometimes he was, my cue was to be quiet until he got back his spirits.†   (source)
  • "I will buy it," he repeated peevishly as he might repeat a demand to his mother who crossed him.†   (source)
  • Conway smiled, but Mallinson looked peevish again.†   (source)
  • My God, Scarlett O'Hara!" said Tony peevishly.†   (source)
  • Because she didn't want to," my mother said peevishly.†   (source)
  • "Name of Jeffers," Mr. Pillsbury said peevishly, as at an unpleasant recollection.†   (source)
  • "Why a Jeroboam, Rex?" she said peevishly.†   (source)
  • Began to roll and complain like a peevish world on a grumble.†   (source)
  • There was just the faint peevishness of an old person who hasn't quite understood something said.†   (source)
  • Mallinson intervened peevishly: "There'd be more point in discussing where we're going to.†   (source)
  • His small peevish jaw shot as far forward as its teeth would allow.†   (source)
  • Then the voice said peevishly, "Now who is an accursed Wang Lung?"†   (source)
  • "You needn't choke me," I protested peevishly, "and I don't want to listen.†   (source)
  • Aunt Bertha continued peevishly.†   (source)
  • Everyone is peevish and touchy, we do not take kindly to all this polishing, much less to the full-dress parades.†   (source)
  • All this would have to be dished up for the young men at Cardiff next month, he thought; here, on his terrace, he was merely foraging and picnicking (he threw away the leaf that he had picked so peevishly) like a man who reaches from his horse to pick a bunch of roses, or stuffs his pockets with nuts as he ambles at his ease through the lanes and fields of a country known to him from boyhood.†   (source)
  • A period of sexual temptation is an excellent time for working in a subordinate attack on the patient's peevishness.†   (source)
  • He spoke in a curiously tart, rasping, peevish voice; the voice of the enraged male; the voice which expressed his serious displeasure at this infringement of a code that meant more to him than he could admit.†   (source)
  • His eyes, glazed with emotion, defiant with tragic intensity, met theirs for a second, and trembled on the verge of recognition; but then, raising his hand, half-way to his face as if to avert, to brush off, in an agony of peevish shame, their normal gaze, as if he begged them to withhold for a moment what he knew to be inevitable, as if he impressed upon them his own child-like resentment of interruption, yet even in the moment of discovery was not to be routed utterly, but was…†   (source)
  • Other men were coming in, and she was mixing drinks in the kitchen, and I came in for peevish glances until Einhorn's girl came in dressed again to have me fetch him.†   (source)
  • The paradoxical thing is that moderate fatigue is a better soil for peevishness than absolute exhaustion.†   (source)
  • Above his mustache, his face appeared good-natured, meek yet shrewd, below it, despite the small mouth and receding chin, he gave one the impression of peevish stubbornness.†   (source)
  • And he would not speak of it any more and Lotus saw he was peevish from some anger, and she sent Cuckoo away and suffered him there alone.†   (source)
  • He was white, thick, and peevish, and had the kind of insolence that sometimes affects the eyes like snowblindness, making you think there's something arctic about having a million bucks.†   (source)
  • Instantly, with the force of some primeval gust (for really he could not restrain himself any longer), there issued from him such a groan that any other woman in the whole world would have done something, said something—all except myself, thought Lily, girding at herself bitterly, who am not a woman, but a peevish, ill-tempered, dried-up old maid, presumably.†   (source)
  • The cobbled streets of the fish market were lined with great baskets of big silver fish, caught in the night out of the teeming river; with tubs of small shining fish, dipped out of a net cast over a pool; with heaps of yellow crabs, squirming and nipping in peevish astonishment; with writhing eels for gourmands at the feasts.†   (source)
  • I demanded, peevish again.†   (source)
  • Aunt Bertha turned to him peevishly.†   (source)
  • Even if her father stole in on us at two in the morning as we were loving-up, he stole through a mansion, and it was hard to think him wrong when the lights went on and he prowled peevish toward us.†   (source)
  • Peevishly.†   (source)
  • And the youngest lad did this and that to fill his mother's place with the old man his grandfather, who was helpless as a little child now, and Wang Lung could not make the old man understand what had happened that O-lan no longer came to bring him tea and hot water and to help him lie down and stand up, and he was peevish because he called her and she did not come, and he threw his bowl of tea on the ground like a wilful child.†   (source)
  • All of a sudden he looked up at me, the spectacles hanging over, and said, peevishly like a mother, "I just don't know what to do—he just won't take soup—he won't eat much of anything but candy—chocolate candy—I just don't know—"†   (source)
  • Lotus was fretful and she answered peevishly, pouting her lips and hanging her head away from him, "Now and I have no one except you and I have no friends and I am used to a merry house and in yours there is no one except the first wife who hates me and these children of yours who are a plague to me, and I have no one."†   (source)
  • He had lost his peevishness, and could hide his indifference to people and his interest in food.†   (source)
  • "I've been sick, I told you," he said, peevishly, almost resenting her excessive pity.†   (source)
  • His face was perhaps too much inflamed, and there was about him a look almost of peevishness.†   (source)
  • "Dearie, you aren't going to go and get peevish, are you?"†   (source)
  • "How about all the time between then and now, though?" he queried peevishly.†   (source)
  • Laramie, you're powerful peevish to-day.†   (source)
  • Are you all here?" said the lawyer peevishly.†   (source)
  • "I must have missed that," Joachim said peevishly.†   (source)
  • The ladies' voices grew animated, and--if the sad truth be owned--a little peevish.†   (source)
  • "No, no!" she exclaimed—and then came a peevish voice—"Jadvyga, you are giving the baby a cold.†   (source)
  • They were peevish, crusty, silent, eying nothing in particular and moving their feet.†   (source)
  • Her face was inartistic--that of a peevish virago.†   (source)
  • I wondered peevishly why they couldn't put her anywhere else instead of quartering her on me.†   (source)
  • 'If you talk so, I won't tell you any more,' she returned, peevishly rising to her feet.†   (source)
  • "Nonsense!" said the Widow Wycherly, with a peevish toss of her head.†   (source)
  • "Well, friend," said the Abbot, peevishly, "thou art ill to please with thy woodcraft.†   (source)
  • "You are stupid, awfully stupid," said Ivan peevishly.†   (source)
  • "It's no use talking o' that," said poor Mrs. Tulliver, almost peevishly.†   (source)
  • Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly.†   (source)
  • "What art goin' to do?" she said, rather peevishly.†   (source)
  • "Oh—it means—you must think what you mean," said Ben, rather peevishly.†   (source)
  • 'Joseph!' cried a peevish voice, simultaneously with me, from the inner room.†   (source)
  • His tears and lamentations made Becky more peevish than ever.†   (source)
  • "Why don't you sit still, Maggie?" her mother said peevishly.†   (source)
  • I then quitted her again, and she drew the bolt in one of her worst, most peevish humours.†   (source)
  • "Well, give me that," said Arthur, with the peevishness of physical depression.†   (source)
  • He interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:— "Then why did you come?"†   (source)
  • The family had never known her so peevish.†   (source)
  • 'Yes — very foolish: as if I took notice!' replied Catherine, in a peevish tone.†   (source)
  • He was christened Linton, and, from the first, she reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature.†   (source)
  • Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical.†   (source)
  • Anybody can see that," I argued with, I own, a certain peevishness, and all the time watching anxiously for the first twist of some sort of ghastly colic.†   (source)
  • These were dreadful times, for Jurgis would get as cross as any bear; he was scarcely to be blamed, for he had enough to worry him, and it was hard when he was trying to take a nap to be kept awake by noisy and peevish children.†   (source)
  • In this instance as in so many other instances in these days, the character of this unfortunate man signally refutes, if refutation were needed, that peevish saying attributed to the late Dr. Johnson, that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.†   (source)
  • He looks older; is getting prematurely bald; and, in spite of an effusion of goodnature and friendliness, is peevish and sensitive when his advances are not reciprocated.†   (source)
  • "You don't suppose I find it very amusing to be stuck up here by myself on the stool of repentance," she went on peevishly, like a spoiled child.†   (source)
  • But not peevish.†   (source)
  • He was peevish.†   (source)
  • There were real difficulties here—Ronny's limitations and her own—but she enjoyed facing difficulties, and decided that if she could control her peevishness (always her weak point), and neither rail against Anglo-India nor succumb to it, their married life ought to be happy and profitable.†   (source)
  • Sondra, because of his strained and as she now fancied almost peevish tone, desisted with: "All right, honey.†   (source)
  • To reach the almost ladderlike stairway to the top floor, they had to pass Lukacek's door again and noticed the peevish tailor was still sitting on his table, working on the sleeved dress for the old lady.†   (source)
  • Odette was peevish.†   (source)
  • Why, you baby, why should I be peevish?†   (source)
  • His narrow black eyebrows were drawn up in a sort of peevish misery into his forehead while his cheeks' down-strokes, and his sulky mouth, seemed to be saying: "I don't care who you are nor what you are, I SHALL have my own way."†   (source)
  • Me peevish?†   (source)
  • His days and part of his nights were filled with operationes spirituales, with examinations of conscience, with introspection, deliberation, and mediation, and he went about it with such malicious, peevish passion that he found himself ensnared in a thousand difficulties, contradictions, and disputes.†   (source)
  • It was not surprising that Mrs. Honeychurch disapproved of music, declaring that it always left her daughter peevish, unpractical, and touchy.†   (source)
  • He frowned peevishly as he went.†   (source)
  • But that was not necessarily wrong, for now and again the route to the valley would have to go uphill, too; and as for the wind, it had peevishly changed direction, since Hans Castorp now had it at his back and was glad for that, in any case.†   (source)
  • The last words burst from Maggie, in spite of herself, with a sudden drop from patronizing instruction to simple peevishness.†   (source)
  • Yes…." replied the prince peevishly.†   (source)
  • Chapter 21 The discussion of Mr. Collins's offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusions of her mother.†   (source)
  • He was lazy, peevish, and a bon-vivant; the appearance of a lady frightened him beyond measure; hence it was but seldom that he joined the paternal circle in Russell Square, where there was plenty of gaiety, and where the jokes of his good-natured old father frightened his amour-propre.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X. Think not I love him, though I ask for him; 'tis but a peevish boy:—yet he talks well— But what care I for words?†   (source)
  • A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and Guinea fowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry.†   (source)
  • Seth had never in his life spoken a harsh word to his mother, and timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle.†   (source)
  • Mitya persisted, like a peevish child.†   (source)
  • He received the paper very peevishly, and was about to crumple it, apparently to throw it in the fire, when a casual glance at the design seemed suddenly to rivet his attention.†   (source)
  • His manner was a wild mixture of the peevishness of second childhood, and the solemn dignity of a God.†   (source)
  • Soon after the marriage of the young people, the worthy doctor returned to Chertsey, where, bereft of the presence of his old friends, he would have been discontented if his temperament had admitted of such a feeling; and would have turned quite peevish if he had known how.†   (source)
  • At first there was a little peevish cry of "mammy", and an effort to regain the pillowing arm and bosom; but mammy's ear was deaf, and the pillow seemed to be slipping away backward.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, with so many reasons for taking life patiently and joyously, Messire Robert d'Estouteville woke up on the morning of the seventh of January, 1482, in a very surly and peevish mood.†   (source)
  • "I know that, to be sure," assented Mr. Lorry, trying to persuade himself that his sweet temper was soured, and that he grumbled, "but I am determined to be peevish after my long day's botheration.†   (source)
  • --and at length even Pluto, who was now becoming old, and consequently somewhat peevish--even Pluto began to experience the effects of my ill temper.†   (source)
  • That a merchant, who has large connections, a jurisconsult, a doctor, a chemist, should be thus absent-minded, that they should become whimsical or even peevish, I can understand; such cases are cited in history.†   (source)
  • "You won't lose Katerina Ivanovna, you may be sure, she'll come to you herself since she has run out," he added peevishly.†   (source)
  • Haven't I been sounding your praises in her ears, and bearing her pretty sulks and peevishness all night for you?†   (source)
  • The abundant hair and very open forehead gave an appearance of consequence to the face, which had only one expression—a petty, childish, peevish expression, concentrated just above the bridge of the narrow nose.†   (source)
  • Still, let it not be supposed that amid this affected resignation to the will of Providence, the unfortunate inn-keeper did not writhe under the double misery of seeing the hateful canal carry off his customers and his profits, and the daily infliction of his peevish partner's murmurs and lamentations.†   (source)
  • He saw Mrs. Sparsit fighting out a daily fight at the points of all the weapons in the female armoury, with the grudging, smarting, peevish, tormenting Lady Scadgers, still laid up in bed with her mysterious leg, and gobbling her insufficient income down by about the middle of every quarter, in a mean little airless lodging, a mere closet for one, a mere crib for two; but did he see more?†   (source)
  • It would seem as though he had a changed or worn appearance in her eyes, and he perceived and resented it; for he said with renewed peevishness, when he had divested himself of his travelling-cloak, and had come to the fire: 'Amy, what are you looking at?†   (source)
  • At all events, Hepzibah had fully satisfied herself of the impossibility of ever becoming wonted to this peevishly obstreperous little bell.†   (source)
  • "Quality!" said the old man crustily, for he was rather peevish at being cut short in his story; "how could they possibly attend to such trifles as the quality of the wares they sold?†   (source)
  • He was assailed by a fancy for peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was not habitual with him.†   (source)
  • "Walter, you never mean to tell me that you have allowed all this to go on without inquiry into Mr. Lydgate's prospects?" said Mrs. Bulstrode, opening her eyes with wider gravity at her brother, who was in his peevish warehouse humor.†   (source)
  • Before he had quite sunken away, however, the sharp and peevish tinkle of the shop-bell made itself audible.†   (source)
  • That I'm wasting my life, never having a moment's peace, either with child, or nursing a child, forever irritable, peevish, wretched myself and worrying others, repulsive to my husband, while the children are growing up unhappy, badly educated, and penniless.†   (source)
  • He muttered to himself, as did the first seaman whom I saw in the hold, some low peevish syllables of a foreign tongue, and although the speaker was close at my elbow, his voice seemed to reach my ears from the distance of a mile.†   (source)
  • Wholly inattentive to her sister's feelings, Lydia flew about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyone's congratulations, and laughing and talking with more violence than ever; whilst the luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repined at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.†   (source)
  • 'Bless my heart, Nicholas my dear,' returned his mother in a peevish tone, 'isn't that precisely what I am saying, if you would only let me speak?†   (source)
  • Indeed it is Julia Mills, peevish and fine, with a black man to carry cards and letters to her on a golden salver, and a copper-coloured woman in linen, with a bright handkerchief round her head, to serve her Tiffin in her dressing-room.†   (source)
  • His face wore that perpetual look of peevish dejection, which is so sourly printed on all faces of Jewish race without exception.†   (source)
  • She paused for an instant in her work to look at him, and her look revived that former pain in her father's breast; in his poor weak breast, so full of contradictions, vacillations, inconsistencies, the little peevish perplexities of this ignorant life, mists which the morning without a night only can clear away.†   (source)
  • Do you speak these words to me, Hepzibah?" said Clifford,—not angrily, however; for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offences, but never resentful of great ones.†   (source)
  • The rascals won't let us sit in peace after dinner," he snapped peevishly, as the servants promptly withdrew at his word.†   (source)
  • Betwixt you and me, Mas'r Davy — and you, ma'am — wen Mrs. Gummidge takes to wimicking,' — our old country word for crying, — 'she's liable to be considered to be, by them as didn't know the old 'un, peevish-like.†   (source)
  • At every small deprivation or discomfort which presented itself in the course of the four-and-twenty hours to remind her of her straitened and altered circumstances, peevish visions of her dower of one thousand pounds had arisen before Mrs Nickleby's mind, until, at last, she had come to persuade herself that of all her late husband's creditors she was the worst used and the most to be pitied.†   (source)
  • She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his will.†   (source)
  • The one thing—the one person—her mind had rested on in its dull weariness, had slipped away from her, and peevish misery filled her eyes with tears.†   (source)
  • Finally, he was informed that Mrs. O. was gone to walk with her pa in Kensington Gardens, whither she always went with the old gentleman (who was very weak and peevish now, and led her a sad life, though she behaved to him like an angel, to be sure), of a fine afternoon, after dinner.†   (source)
  • If a tear—a maiden's sunshiny tear over imaginary woe—dropped upon some melancholy page, Clifford either took it as a token of actual calamity, or else grew peevish, and angrily motioned her to close the volume.†   (source)
  • At such intervals, after a few moments of abstraction, Ralph would mutter some peevish interjection, and apply himself with renewed steadiness of purpose to the ledger before him, but again and again the same train of thought came back despite all his efforts to prevent it, confusing him in his calculations, and utterly distracting his attention from the figures over which he bent.†   (source)
  • "Oh dear, there's no fear but what they'll be all here in time, sister," said Mrs. Tulliver, in her mild-peevish tone.†   (source)
  • I think they must have been given to feeble remonstrance, getting more and more peevish as it became more and more ineffectual.†   (source)
  • "I knew you were not in bed, my dear," she said, in her sweet clear voice, which was irritating to Hetty, mingling with her own peevish vexation like music with jangling chains, "for I heard you moving; and I longed to speak to you again to-night, for it is the last but one that I shall be here, and we don't know what may happen to-morrow to keep us apart.†   (source)
  • She never told until long afterwards how painful that duty was; how peevish a patient was the jovial old lady; how angry; how sleepless; in what horrors of death; during what long nights she lay moaning, and in almost delirious agonies respecting that future world which she quite ignored when she was in good health.†   (source)
  • "I always said it would come to this," the Baronet cried peevishly, and beating a tune with his clean-trimmed nails.†   (source)
  • To the feminine mind in some of its moods, all things that might be receive a temporary charm from comparison with what is; and since Adam did not want to marry Dinah himself, Lisbeth felt rather peevish on that score—as peevish as she would have been if he HAD wanted to marry her, and so shut himself out from Mary Burge and the partnership as effectually as by marrying Hetty.†   (source)
  • Maggie, too, would have admired Lucy's houses, and would have given up her own unsuccessful building to contemplate them, without ill temper, if her tucker had not made her peevish, and if Tom had not inconsiderately laughed when her houses fell, and told her she was "a stupid."†   (source)
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