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  • Sukhwinder could only register helplessness and peevishness.†   (source)
  • "He called me boy," Joffrey said peevishly, sounding younger than his years.†   (source)
  • These were awesome occasions worthy of the ancient silver service; the venerable great-uncles and —aunts and grandparents were Victorians, from their mother's side of the family, a baffled and severe folk, a lost tribe who arrived at the house in black cloaks having wandered peevishly for two decades in an alien, frivolous century.†   (source)
  • With some peevish exclamation he looked up at Cherry, who remained impassive.†   (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)
  • The cold seemed to rouse her a little and she looked around peevishly, shivering.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Dede felt a little peevish.†   (source)
  • But Ruth's initial delight soon turned into peevishness.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 'He isn't doing it now,' said Rumfoord peevishly.†   (source)
  • Jake felt himself getting more and more peevish.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Shooting Max a peevish glance, Rasmussen beckoned his colleagues along.†   (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)
  • She frowned peevishly, her pride wounded.†   (source)
  • I don't really know any other word I can use to describe the expression on Andrew's face except peevish.†   (source)
  • Petulant—sulky, crabby, peevish, moody, sullen.†   (source)
  • He remained that way, breathing hard with peevish anger.†   (source)
  • He seemed to look down on Phaedrus with womanish peevishness as a spoiler of what should have been a nice experience.†   (source)
  • You've got that look again," Alec said peevishly, glancing up through his lashes.†   (source)
  • At last a peevish voice said, "What do you expect us to do, gospazha?†   (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)
  • " After a few moments Cal said peevishly, "I wish you'd get on with your lecture."†   (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)
  • TYRONE With drunken peevishness.†   (source)
  • Don't talk that way," he replied peevishly.†   (source)
  • Mr. Linton had not only abjured his peevishness (though his spirits seemed still subdued by Catherine's exuberance of vivacity), but he ventured no objection to her taking Isabella with her to Wuthering Heights in the afternoon;   (source)
    peevishness = being easily annoyed
  • His peevish reproofs wakened in her a naughty delight to provoke him:   (source)
    peevish = easily annoyed
  • 'Joseph!' cried a peevish voice, simultaneously with me, from the inner room.   (source)
    peevish = annoyed
  • I then quitted her again, and she drew the bolt in one of her worst, most peevish humours.   (source)
    peevish = annoyed or irritated
  • 'Yes — very foolish: as if I took notice!' replied Catherine, in a peevish tone.   (source)
    peevish = annoyed
  • Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical.   (source)
    peevish = easily annoyed
  • 'If you talk so, I won't tell you any more,' she returned, peevishly rising to her feet.   (source)
    peevishly = in an annoyed manner
  • 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)
    peevish = annoying
  • I think I should not be peevish with you: you'd not provoke me, and you'd always be ready to help me, wouldn't you?   (source)
    peevish = easily annoyed
  • 'The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.   (source)
    peevish = annoyed
  • That was worse: she fretted and sighed, and looked at her watch till eight, and finally went to her room, completely overdone with sleep; judging by her peevish, heavy look, and the constant rubbing she inflicted on her eyes.   (source)
    peevish = easily annoyed
  • The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult.   (source)
  • The morning was fresh and cool; I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, 'Ellen, shut the window.'   (source)
    peevishly = in an easily annoyed manner
  • A pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for my master's younger brother, so strong was the resemblance: but there was a sickly peevishness in his aspect that Edgar Linton never had.   (source)
    peevishness = tendency to be easily annoyed
  • "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)
  • David nodded but was rubbing his behind and looking peevish.†   (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)
  • He reached for a glass while the faun gave his shoes a peevish glance.†   (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)
  • He lit his pipe, puffing at them with the impatient air of a peevish lord.†   (source)
  • "You set a rather low bar," scoffed Toby, sounding peevish.†   (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)
  • "We must accept?" he echoed peevishly.†   (source)
  • Little Walder only looked peevish.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • How literary, I thought peevishly.†   (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)
  • From me, such accusations would have seemed peevish and sell-serving, a means of placing myself first in the line of succession.†   (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)
  • Conway smiled, but Mallinson looked peevish again.†   (source)
  • "I will buy it," he repeated peevishly as he might repeat a demand to his mother who crossed him.†   (source)
  • If peevish, and sometimes he was, my cue was to be quiet until he got back his spirits.†   (source)
  • Began to roll and complain like a peevish world on a grumble.†   (source)
  • My God, Scarlett O'Hara!" said Tony peevishly.†   (source)
  • "Why a Jeroboam, Rex?" she said peevishly.†   (source)
  • "Name of Jeffers," Mr. Pillsbury said peevishly, as at an unpleasant recollection.†   (source)
  • Because she didn't want to," my mother said peevishly.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "You needn't choke me," I protested peevishly, "and I don't want to listen.†   (source)
  • Everyone is peevish and touchy, we do not take kindly to all this polishing, much less to the full-dress parades.†   (source)
  • A period of sexual temptation is an excellent time for working in a subordinate attack on the patient's peevishness.†   (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)
  • Aunt Bertha continued peevishly.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 determined to hold fast to something of this delicious emotion, this impure rhapsody of which h†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I demanded, peevish again.†   (source)
  • Aunt Bertha turned to him peevishly.†   (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)
  • Peevishly.†   (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—" His voice trailed off.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "I've been sick, I told you," he said, peevishly, almost resenting her excessive pity.†   (source)
  • He had lost his peevishness, and could hide his indifference to people and his interest in food.†   (source)
  • The ladies' voices grew animated, and—if the sad truth be owned—a little peevish.†   (source)
  • His face was perhaps too much inflamed, and there was about him a look almost of peevishness.†   (source)
  • Laramie, you're powerful peevish to-day.†   (source)
  • "How about all the time between then and now, though?" he queried peevishly.†   (source)
  • Are you all here?" said the lawyer peevishly.†   (source)
  • Dearie, you aren't going to go and get peevish, are you?†   (source)
  • "I must have missed that," Joachim said peevishly.†   (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)
  • "Nonsense!" said the Widow Wycherly, with a peevish toss of her head.†   (source)
  • I wondered peevishly why they couldn't put her anywhere else instead of quartering her on me.†   (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)
  • "What art goin' to do?" she said, rather peevishly.†   (source)
  • "It's no use talking o' that," said poor Mrs. Tulliver, almost peevishly.†   (source)
  • "Oh—it means—you must think what you mean," said Ben, rather peevishly.†   (source)
  • Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly.†   (source)
  • His tears and lamentations made Becky more peevish than ever.†   (source)
  • "Why don't you sit still, Maggie?" her mother said peevishly.†   (source)
  • The family had never known her so peevish.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He was peevish.†   (source)
  • But not peevish.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • Why, you baby, why should I be peevish?†   (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)
  • He frowned peevishly as he went.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He was assailed by a fancy for peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was not habitual with him.†   (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)
  • —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)
  • The last words burst from Maggie, in spite of herself, with a sudden drop from patronizing instruction to simple peevishness.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • At all events, Hepzibah had fully satisfied herself of the impossibility of ever becoming wonted to this peevishly obstreperous little bell.†   (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)
  • Seth had never in his life spoken a harsh word to his mother, and timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Haven't I been sounding your praises in her ears, and bearing her pretty sulks and peevishness all night for you?†   (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)
  • Yes..." replied the prince peevishly.†   (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)
  • Mitya persisted, like a peevish child.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • His manner was a wild mixture of the peevishness of second childhood, and the solemn dignity of a God.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Before he had quite sunken away, however, the sharp and peevish tinkle of the shop-bell made itself audible.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The rascals won't let us sit in peace after dinner," he snapped peevishly, as the servants promptly withdrew at his word.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
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